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Elon Musk Has Turned Off Many Liberals to Electric Vehicles—and Not Just Teslas

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. US liberals have become so disgusted with Tesla since Elon Musk’s rightward turn that they are now not only far less likely to purchase the car brand but also less willing to buy any type of electric car, […]

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Elon Musk Has Turned Off Many Liberals to Electric Vehicles—and Not Just Teslas

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. US liberals have become so disgusted with Tesla since Elon Musk’s rightward turn that they are now not only far less likely to purchase the car brand but also less willing to buy any type of electric car, […]

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RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Is on a Collision Course with Trump’s EPA

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a Friday evening this July, the Trump administration announced it would lay off all of the health research scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency. Hundreds of investigators who try to understand how toxic pollution affects the human body would be gone. That […]

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Resignation of a Top US Nuclear Regulator Seen as an Attack on Agency Independence

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This story originally appeared on the author’s substack newsletter, Field Notes From Alexander C. Kaufman, to which you can subscribe here. A top official at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is resigning from her post amid the Trump administration’s attempts to overhaul atomic energy rules and chip away at the agency’s independence. Commissioner Annie Caputo, a Republican whom President […]

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What To Do, and Not Do, During a Heat Wave

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Earth has never been so hot. Millions of people, amounting to nearly half the country, across the Southeast, Midwest, and Northeast are under heat alerts. Outside of the United States, an early heat wave in India and Pakistan saw temperatures reaching 120 degrees Fahrenheit. […]

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Why Your Energy Bill Keeps Going Up

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Americans are paying more for electricity, and those prices are set to rise even further. In almost all parts of the country, the amount people pay for electricity on their power bills—the retail price—has risen faster than the rate of […]

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Trump Team’s Plans to Exploit Public Lands Follow the Blueprint of Reagan’s Interior Secretary

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This story was originally published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Since his January inauguration, Donald Trump has unleashed a bonfire of deregulatory concessions and promises to privatize natural resources for critical minerals mining, energy development, logging, and suburban sprawl. Federal lands, natural resources, and the […]

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Science Moms’ Bipartisan Mission: Educate Other Mothers About Climate Change

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This story was originally published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The devastating flood that swept through Camp Mystic in Texas this month is every parent’s worst nightmare. Hours or days of fear and uncertainty, feeling powerless to help, and, for the families of the 27 campers and […]

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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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