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How a Tiny, Inexperienced Firm Landed a $1.3 Billion Detention Deal

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For our November+December issue, we investigated the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump’s immigration police state: the surge in funding and manpower, the troubling arrests by masked agents, the increasing use of problematic tech, the incessant cruelty of the messaging, and the shadowy profiteers cashing in on the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Read the whole package here. When the […]

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Outcry as Trump Plots the Plunder of US Forests: “You Can Almost Hear the Chainsaws”

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This story was originally published by Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1999, Bill Clinton ascended one of the highest summits in Virginia to announce that “the last, best unprotected wild lands anywhere in our nation” would be shielded by a new rule that banned roads, drilling, and other disturbances within America’s most prized […]

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Trump’s Energy Policies Are Laughable. This Samuel L. Jackson Ad Proves It.

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Standing alone on a rocky coastline wearing a seaman-style knit hat, Samuel L. Jackson reaches into a snack bag and gazes intensely through binoculars. Wind turbines spin ominously on a watery horizon. “Motherfucking wind farms. Loud, ugly, harmful to nature,” the ​Pulp Fiction actor says. […]

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How a Warming Planet Has Made Home Insurance Increasingly Unaffordable

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This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, Sanibel Island, one of the most treasured vacation resorts in America, was an insurance agent’s dream. Year after year, the 5,000-odd residents of the barrier island on Florida’s Gulf Coast wrote checks for their home and flood […]

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This Republican Attempt to Scuttle Federal Land Plans Could Cause Great Upheaval

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the spring of 1996, lawmakers quietly buried a rider in a humdrum bill meant to make life easier for small businesses. That addition, the Congressional Review Act, granted Congress the power to kill new federal regulations with a simple […]

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Utilities Are Usually Hostile to Solar and Battery Systems, but Not for These Rural Customers

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Michael Gillogly, manager of the Pepperwood Preserve, understands the wildfire risk that power lines pose firsthand. The 3,200-acre nature reserve in Sonoma County, California, burned in 2017 when a privately owned electrical system sparked a fire. It burned again in 2019 during a conflagration started by power lines operated by utility […]

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We Can Remove Toxic Forever Chemicals From Drinking Water. Why Aren’t We?

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A new study finds that technologies installed to remove “forever chemicals” from drinking water are also doing double-duty by removing harmful other materials—including some substances that have been linked to certain types of cancer. The study, published Thursday in the journal ACS ES&T Water, […]

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Meet the Billionaire Oligarchs Enabling Trump’s Deportation Machine

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A primer on the billionaire barons and corporate leaders profiting off ICE’s escalated assault on immigrants.

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America’s Mines Are Literally Throwing Away Critical Metals

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The United States is home to dozens of active mines. Some extract copper, while others dig for iron. Whatever the resource, however, it usually makes up a small fraction of the rock pulled from the ground. The rest is typically ignored. […]

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Installing Heat Pumps in Factories Could Save $1.5 Trillion—and 77,000 Lives

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For several years now, heat pumps have outsold gas furnaces in the United States. Instead of burning fossil fuels to generate warmth, these appliances use electricity—ideally provided by renewable sources like wind and solar—to transfer heat from even frigid outdoor air into a home. Many […]

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Why Is Gov. Gavin Newsom Blocking Rooftop Solar in California?

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By any measure, California’s green energy transition has been a wild success. Two-thirds of its energy needs are now met by a mixture of renewables like wind and solar, alongside nuclear and geothermal, while the national average is 20 percent. In the last two decades, the state’s green energy output has grown by 43 percent, […]

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