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After Trump Kills the National Climate Assessment, Scientists Vow to Create Their Own

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Two major US scientific societies have announced they will join forces to produce peer-reviewed research on the climate crisis’s impact days after Donald Trump’s administration dismissed contributors to a key Congress-mandated report on climate crisis preparedness. On Friday, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the […]

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Republicans Seek to Kill California Auto Pollution Rules Using a “Blatantly Illegal” Tactic

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration On a warm July morning in 1943, in the middle of World War II, a thick cloud of acrid smoke blanketed downtown Los Angeles, turning its clear blue skies into an inscrutable brown haze that left Angelenos with burning eyes, […]

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Scientists Are Ditching Cows to Make Butter From Greenhouse Gases

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Butter was long thought to be magic. Ancient civilizations imbued it with divine beliefs and it factored into 17th-century witch trials as evidence of the dark arts. Scientists have since decoded its chemistry, but a new version of this favorite dietary fat is making it seem otherworldly again: butter made from greenhouse gases. Scientists at […]

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Trump’s Rookie Moves Have Created Loads of Uncertainty—Even for Big Oil

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration Last week, the US Department of the Interior announced that it would speed up the approval process for certain fossil fuel projects, proclaiming that environmental analyses that previously would have taken years must now be taken down to, at maximum, a month. While the […]

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Trump’s First 100 Days Have Unleashed an “All-Out Assault” on the Environment

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One hundred days into the second Trump administration, many environmentalists’ worst fears about the new presidency have been realized—and surpassed.  Facing a spate of orders, pronouncements and actions that target America’s most cherished natural resources and most vulnerable […]

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Mark Carney, Canada’s Newly Elected PM, Has a Very Squishy Climate Plan

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This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s plan to address climate change is something of a Rorschach test, with the platform laying out a vision that can be interpreted in contradictory ways. The platform includes commitments to advance major “nation-building” projects […]

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How Trump 2.0 Overturned Years of Climate Progress in 100 Days

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From regulatory rollbacks to coal resurgence, here are some of Trump’s most consequential actions since January 20.

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These 10 Charts Prove Clean Energy Is Winning Despite Donald Trump’s Efforts

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At every light switch, power socket, and on the road, an unstoppable revolution is already underway. Technologies that can power our lives and jobs while doing less harm to the global climate—wind, solar, batteries, etc.—are getting cheaper, more efficient, and […]

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Trump Just Fast-Tracked Deep Sea Mining, Despite Global Opposition

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Donald Trump wants federal agencies to fast-track applications for deep-sea mining in an effort to make the United States a global leader in the nascent industry.  Trump issued an executive order Thursday declaring that US policy includes “creating a […]

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China’s Xi Prepares to Eat America’s Lunch as Trump Cedes Leadership on Clean Energy

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. China will continue to push forward on the climate crisis, Xi Jinping has said while appearing to criticize the “protectionism” of Donald Trump’s tariff policies. The Chinese president was attending a closed-door virtual meeting with the UN secretary general, António Guterres, Brazil’s president, Luiz […]

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CovertAction Bulletin – Earth Day: War and Climate Change Threaten the Planet

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April 20th marked the fifteenth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the largest oil spill in U.S. history, which killed 11 workers and spilled 134 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. For those who rely on fishing and relate…

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