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The Hague Just Upped the Stakes on Trump’s “Drill Baby, Drill” Agenda

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tuesday’s landmark advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on climate change came as residents of some island nations are already “scraping barnacles off our grandfathers’ graves” as sea-level rise accelerates, said Julian Aguon, an Indigenous human rights lawyer and writer […]

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Employees Kept in the Dark as EPA Dismantles Scientific Research Office

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Employees of the crucial scientific research arm of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have been left with more questions than answers as the agency moves to officially wind down the office following months of back-and-forth. On Friday evening, the EPA issued a press release announcing a […]

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“Like a Zombie Apocalypse: Trump’s Budget Cuts Stir Fears of Frightening Pipeline Mishaps

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This story was originally published by the Guardian, and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a clear February evening in 2020, a smell of rotten eggs started to waft over the small town of Satartia, Mississippi, followed by a green-tinged cloud. A load roar could be heard near the highway that passes the […]

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Los Angeles Is Rebuilding Very Slowly From Its Devastating Wildfires. Here’s why.

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This story was originally published by Vox.com, and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the wake of the record-breaking wildfires in Los Angeles in January—some of the most expensive and destructive blazes in history—one of the first things California Gov. Gavin Newsom did was to sign an executive order suspending environmental rules around rebuilding. The idea was that […]

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Why Flash Flood Warnings Are Never Enough

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This year’s Fourth of July was the first time that the town of Comfort, Texas, used the sirens intended to warn its roughly 2,000 residents of imminent flooding. Founded by German abolitionists in 1854, Comfort sits along the Guadalupe River in […]

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America’s Worst Polluters See a Lifeline in Power-Gobbling AI—and Donald Trump

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. AI is “not my thing,” President Donald Trump admitted during a speech in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. However, the president said during his remarks at the Energy and Innovation Summit, his advisers had told him just how important energy was to the future of […]

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Florida Tribe Joins the Fight Against “Alligator Alcatraz”

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Miccosukee Tribe in Florida joined environmental groups on Tuesday to sue the federal and state agencies that constructed an immigrant detention center known as the “Alligator Alcatraz” and located in the Everglades National Park.  In a motion to join a lawsuit, […]

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Republicans Decry Canada Wildfire Smoke After Passing “the Most Anti-Environment Bill”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A group of Republican lawmakers has complained that smoke from Canadian wildfires is ruining summer for Americans, just days after voting for a major bill that will cause more of the planet-heating pollution that is worsening wildfires. In a letter sent to Canada’s ambassador to the US, […]

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Trump’s Policies Have US States Eyeing Offshore Wind Power From Canada and Elsewhere

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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. Massachusetts is among the American states exploring sourcing electricity from planned offshore wind farms in Atlantic Canada, following the US market-stalling moratorium imposed on the industry by the Trump administration earlier this year. The state, home to the pioneering […]

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Red States, Defying Reality, Are Reclassifying Gas as a “Green” Fuel

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In Louisiana, natural gas—a planet-heating fossil fuel—is now, by law, considered “green energy” that can compete with solar and wind projects for clean energy funding. The law, signed by Republican Governor Jeff Landry last month, comes on the heels of similar bills […]

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We May Have to Take Climate Risks Into Our Own Hands Now

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2023, my husband and I bought our house in southwest Colorado, in part because it backed up to open space. That was the dream: trails just past the fence, a scrubby network of oak and sage stretching out into the hills beyond. But […]

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First Came the Wildfires—then the Floods, and the Water Crises

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This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. First came the drought. After three years without significant rain, northern New Mexico’s dense forests of spruce, fir and ponderosa pines were baked to a crisp. Then came the spark—a prescribed burn lit by the US Forest Service […]

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