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Scientists Suspect Fracking Contaminated This Pennsylvania Town’s Wells

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the summer of 2022, John Stolz got a phone call asking for his help. This request—one of many the Duquesne University professor has fielded—came from the Center for Coalfield Justice, an environmental nonprofit in […]

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The Race to Stop AI’s Threats to Democracy

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OpenAI became the world’s most valuable private company last week after a stock deal pushed the value of the artificial intelligence developer to $500 billion. The company and its remarkable chatbot ChatGPT have single-handedly accelerated AI’s boom and threatened to upend much of how we work, create, learn, and communicate in the process. But when […]

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Energy Department Tries to Stifle Workers’ Use of Climate-Related Words

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This story was originally published by Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Department of Energy has told employees in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) to avoid using the words “climate change” in what seems to be the latest incident in a crackdown on discussing the climate crisis in the […]

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Team Trump Will Spend $625 Million and Open Public Lands to Revive a Dying Industry

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This story was originally published by Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The White House will open 13.1 million acres of public land to coal mining while providing $625 million for coal-fired power plants, the Trump administration has announced. The efforts came as part of a suite of initiatives from the Department of the […]

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Oil and Gas Trade Group Blasts Reform’s Anti-Renewables Agenda

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LIVERPOOL – The UK’s largest oil and gas trade body has criticised Reform UK’s plans to “turn off the tap” on renewable energy. Nigel Farage’s party has tried to present itself as the oil and gas industry’s closest ally, vowing to “drill, baby, drill” in the North Sea and scrap the windfall tax on excess […]

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Labour’s AI Drive Faces Fossil Fuel Pressure at Party Conference

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LIVERPOOL – Gas companies and Conservative lobby groups have been leaning on the Labour Party to allow tech companies to use gas to power their energy-guzzling artificial intelligence (AI). A number of events have taken place at Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool this week focused on how the UK can become a leader in building […]

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Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse

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This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in taxpayer-funded subsidies, DeSmog can reveal. A major new investigation traced dozens of EU payments to farms that have breached, are under investigation for, or have already been convicted of labour-related offences. DeSmog found […]

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Renewables Are a Global Economic Engine, Not a Culture War Threat

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith boasted in June that a private sector proponent for a new bitumen pipeline to British Columbia’s coast would come forward “within weeks.” Three months have passed and exactly zero companies have bet their own money to back up the pipeline hype constantly coming from Smith.  Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the first tranche […]

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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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RFK Jr. Promised to Take On Plastic. Now He’s Part of an Administration Embracing It.

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Microplastics are, quite literally, everywhere—in rivers and lakes, clouds and soil, the depths of the ocean, the heights of Mount Everest. They have shown up in meat, seafood, fruits and vegetables, salt, sugar, and seemingly every corporeal realm scientists have checked, including our lungs, saliva, feces, blood, testicles, and breast milk. Earlier this year, a […]

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How farmed fish in Dutch supermarkets undermines food security in West Africa

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On a beach strewn with plastic and fish waste on the eastern side of the Senegalese capital Dakar, a lorry is being loaded up with small fish that have just been brought ashore in colourful wooden canoes. For generations, the daily catch in Dakar has been sold directly on the beach to women traders who […]

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New Hampshire and Vermont Could be Next to Introduce “Balcony Solar”

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Small solar-panel kits that can be assembled as easily as an Ikea bookcase and plugged into a regular residential outlet could be coming soon to New Hampshire and Vermont. Lawmakers and advocates in both states are preparing legislation that would […]

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