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Trump’s All-Out Assault on Science Constitutes a “Mind-Boggling Own-Goal”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference at the agency jeopardizing the future of US industries […]

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“Self-Inflicted Tragedy”: Washington’s Abrupt Turnaround on Climate Policy

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US House of Representatives voted 218 to 214 on Thursday to pass President Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill, greenlighting deep cuts to America’s social safety net and the decimation of the country’s only federal climate strategy. Democrats uniformly opposed the bill, while […]

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How Zohran Mamdani Tied Climate Policy to Voters’ Pocketbook Issues

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As she canvassed for Zohran Mamdani in New York City on Tuesday last week, Batul Hassan should have been elated. Her mayoral candidate—a 33-year-old state assemblymember—was surging in the polls and would within hours soundly defeat Andrew Cuomo on first preference […]

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Why So Many Low-Income Households Can’t Afford This Free Home Improvement Program

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The federal Weatherization Assistance Program is the oldest and largest energy efficiency initiative in American history. Born from the 1973 oil crisis, it helps low- and moderate-income households make a litany of upgrades to their homes, such as installing insulation, sealing windows, and […]

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Ban on AI Regulations in Trump’s Tax Bill Carries a Huge Environmental Cost

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Republicans are pushing to pass a major spending bill that includes provisions to prevent states from enacting regulations on artificial intelligence. Such untamed growth in AI will take a heavy toll upon the world’s dangerously overheating climate, experts have […]

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Senate Version of “Beautiful” Bill Will “Kill” America’s Clean Energy Sector, Experts Say

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The Senate version of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” unveiled to the public at Midnight on Friday, went even further than the House version in its hostility toward the nation’s burgeoning renewable energy sector. The House version merely seeks to end the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) subsidies for wind and solar development enacted […]

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Firefighting Foams Contain Toxic Chemicals. Why Not Switch to Soybeans?

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Jeff King has served on the volunteer fire department in Corydon, Kentucky, for over 30 years. He is well aware of the dangers of the job—including one that may be hiding in the supplies he and his crew use to […]

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The Collapse of the World’s Coral Reefs is “Death by a Thousand Cuts”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Kenyan marine ecologist David Obura is chair of a panel of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the world’s leading natural scientists. For many decades, his speciality has been corals, but he has warned that the […]

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Presses Oil Firms on Lobbying for a Huge Tax Break in the Budget Bill

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Democratic lawmakers led by the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren are pressing two energy companies about their efforts to “win a $1.1 billion tax loophole” in Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill. The proposed exemption, which Senate Republicans inserted into their version of […]

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California Rolls on With Electric Trucks, Despite Trump’s Roadblocks

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Wes Lowe uses so much Claritin that he started an Amazon subscription to avoid running out. His kids take two asthma medications. This reflects the normalcy of pollution in California’s San Joaquin Valley, where residents breathe some of the dirtiest air in […]

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Most People Support Taxing Carbon Even If It Costs Them, Global Survey Shows

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. People in affluent countries around the world are willing to tax themselves to address climate change and ease poverty. That idea defies conventional political wisdom, which typically holds that people hate taxes. It emerged in a survey of 40,680 people in […]

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Why Iran’s Nuclear Program Is So Essential to Its Identity

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In October 1978, two leaders of the Iranian opposition to the British-backed shah of Iran met in the Paris suburbs of Neauphle-le-Château to plan for the final stages of the revolution, a revolution that after 46 momentous and often brutal years may now […]

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