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Trump Claimed His EPA Climate Rollback Will Save Americans Money. That’s Very Unlikely.

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration claims its latest move to gut climate regulations and end all greenhouse gas standards for vehicles will save Americans money. But its own analysis indicates that the new rule will push up gas prices, and that the benefits of the rollback are unlikely […]

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Video: Trump Nuked a Major EPA Climate Rule. Here’s What You Need to Know.

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On February 12, Donald Trump dropped the climatic equivalent of an atomic bomb. He announced the repeal of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 endangerment finding, the basis of the EPA’s ability to regulate climate-warming emissions. “This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history,” proclaimed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “This is corruption, plain […]

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Big Tech’s Claims That AI Can Help Fix the Climate Crisis Are “Greenwashing”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report. Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation […]

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Trump’s Climate Repeal Will Kill America’s Transition From Gas Guzzlers to EVs

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With the repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific finding on the dangers of greenhouse gases, the Trump administration is aiming to take out many federal actions on climate change in one blast. The first impact of this deregulatory […]

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These Utilities May Be Wildly Overestimating the AI Boom—at Public Expense

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This story was originally published by Grist in partnership with WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station, and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As more and more data centers crop up throughout Georgia and the Southeast, a recent study finds they may need less energy than the industry and utilities have been predicting. That could have substantial implications for […]

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The Adorable Patients of This Special Bat Hospital Will Warm Your Heart

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Australia is famously a place with some of the world’s most dangerous and frightening animals. Venomous spiders. Deadly snakes. Jellyfish with fatal stings. But it is also home to one of the world’s cutest: the flying fox, also known as the giant […]

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Their Courses Were No Longer Relevant, so These Economics Students Went to Work

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a group of students at Harvard University walked out of their introductory economics class complaining it was teaching a “specific and limited view” that perpetuated “a problematic and inefficient system of […]

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Ohio Lawmakers Consider Bill That Would Essentially Ban Solar and Wind Projects

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s not just federal headwinds that threaten to constrain renewable energy development. State and local restrictions on solar and wind are spreading across the United States, too. Few states highlight this fact as well as Ohio does. The Buckeye State makes […]

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Trump Plans to Repeal the Finding That Lets the EPA Regulate Climate-Warming Emissions

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In what is set to be its most audacious anti-environment move yet, the Trump administration on Thursday will roll back the mechanism allowing the government to regulate planet-heating pollution, the White House press secretary has told reporters. “President Trump will […]

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Trump’s Lust for Greenland’s Rare Earth Minerals Faces Harsh Arctic Realities

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This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Donald Trump has been voicing interest in exploiting Greenland’s mineral wealth since his first term in office, when he started talking about possibly seizing the autonomous territory. His threats of a hostile takeover have eased, but amid the focus on […]

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The United States Sacrificed $35 Billion in Clean Energy Projects Last Year

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For more than a decade, the clean energy economy has been on a steep growth trajectory. Companies have poured billions of dollars into battery manufacturing, solar and wind generation, and electric vehicle plants in the US, as solar costs fell sharply and […]

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There May Be No Turning Back This Climate Crisis

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This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world is poised to overshoot the goal of limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as for the first time, a three-year period, ending in 2025, has breached the threshold. And climate scientists are predicting devastating consequences, just as […]

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