A primer on the billionaire barons and corporate leaders profiting off ICE’s escalated assault on immigrants.
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Meet the Billionaire Oligarchs Enabling Trump’s Deportation Machine Read Post »
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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America’s Mines Are Literally Throwing Away Critical Metals Read Post »
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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Installing Heat Pumps in Factories Could Save $1.5 Trillion—and 77,000 Lives Read Post »
Tech giants have been the chief beneficiaries of the administration’s decision to drop lawsuits and investigations.
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Trump Has Shielded 165 Companies From Federal Enforcement Actions Since January Read Post »
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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Why Is Gov. Gavin Newsom Blocking Rooftop Solar in California? Read Post »
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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America’s Worst Polluters See a Lifeline in Power-Gobbling AI—and Donald Trump Read Post »
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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Red States, Defying Reality, Are Reclassifying Gas as a “Green” Fuel Read Post »
On Saturday morning, President Donald Trump announced plans to hit the European Union and Mexico with 30 percent tariffs starting on August 1. If this gives you déjà vu, it is not without good reason. Trump has repeatedly announced, delayed, changed and rescinded major tariffs across the globe since he took office in January. The […]
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Trump Says He’ll Slap 30 Percent Tariffs on Mexico and the EU. Truth or TACO? Read Post »
“Lying.” “Disgusting.” “Scum.” “Slime.” “Corrupt.” “Enemy of the people.” Donald Trump has made clear what he thinks of journalists and what should happen to us: Thrown in jail and raped, “sued like never before,” investigated for treason, “taken off the air.” Once he reassuringly noted that “I would never kill them, but I do hate […]
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Good Night and Good Luck Read Post »
Last week, the Supreme Court ended a term unlike any other. The Roberts Court, with its 6-3 majority of Republican appointees, continued to issue partisan opinions that pleased the wealthy interests that fund the conservative legal movement while abetting the new Trump administration on its lawless rampage against immigrants, federal agencies, Congress, the courts, and […]
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This Term, the Supreme Court Gave Favors to Its MAGA Allies on Two Tracks Read Post »
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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Firefighting Foams Contain Toxic Chemicals. Why Not Switch to Soybeans? Read Post »
This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The “Big, Beautiful Bill” that Republicans are pushing under President Trump would roll back almost all the clean energy incentives that Democrats enacted under President Biden, shredding federal support for solar, wind, nuclear, electric vehicles, and other climate-friendly technologies. […]
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