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Trump’s Climate Repeal Will Kill America’s Transition From Gas Guzzlers to EVs

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With the repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific finding on the dangers of greenhouse gases, the Trump administration is aiming to take out many federal actions on climate change in one blast. The first impact of this deregulatory […]


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Grassroots Organizers in Wisconsin Offer Blueprint for Beating Back Data Centers

Private equity firms are investing heavily in new AI data centers, but local communities are finding ways to fight back.


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Their Courses Were No Longer Relevant, so These Economics Students Went to Work

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a group of students at Harvard University walked out of their introductory economics class complaining it was teaching a “specific and limited view” that perpetuated “a problematic and inefficient system of […]


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The United States Sacrificed $35 Billion in Clean Energy Projects Last Year

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For more than a decade, the clean energy economy has been on a steep growth trajectory. Companies have poured billions of dollars into battery manufacturing, solar and wind generation, and electric vehicle plants in the US, as solar costs fell sharply and […]


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These Haitian Meatpacking Workers Face Deportation. They Voted to Strike Anyway.

This story was produced in partnership with the Food & Environment Reporting Network. This week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought in federal court to revoke their legal status and deport them. But despite these threats, the largely immigrant union workers at a JBS beef plant […]


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Trump Has Betrayed the People of Coal Country. They Love Him Anyway.

Christy Ratliff is sitting in a folding chair in a public school gym in Grundy, Virginia, waiting for her number to be called. She arrived at 4 a.m. on this October Saturday to secure her position in line to have eight teeth pulled. Genetic gum disease, she explains, has left most of them rotten or […]


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Trump Abruptly Drops His Threat of Economic Warfare Over Greenland

After previewing his plans to acquire Greenland through economic warfare, President Donald Trump abruptly announced that he would not impose tariffs he had scheduled to take effect next month, citing work on a future deal regarding Greenland with NATO’s secretary general, Mark Rutte.  That move came despite the unmistakable warning embedded in Trump’s rambling, complaint-heavy […]


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The Canadian PM’s Davos Speech Is Unmissable in a Time of “Rupture”

President Donald Trump famously doesn’t like to read. And if his increasingly frequent public naps are any indication, his attention span is only getting shorter. But he did claim to watch what one historian praised as a “riveting, extraordinary and brutally honest” speech by Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada yesterday in Davos, Switzerland. And […]


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A Wave of New Polls Shows Trump’s Support Cratering Across the Board

As President Donald Trump wraps up the first year of his second term—one marked by US aggression abroad and rising political violence at home—a wave of new polls released this week shows him and his policies at remarkably high, and in some cases record, levels of unpopularity. Across nearly every major measure, Trump is generating […]


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