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This Texas County Sought Disaster Resilience Help for Years. Now It’s Too Late.

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Flooding is a fact of life in Texas Hill Country, a region home to a flood-prone corridor known as “Flash Flood Alley.” Judge Rob Kelly, the top elected official in Kerr County, said as much on Sunday. “We know we get rains. We know […]

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Sen. Ted Cruz Stripped Weather Forecasting Funds From Trump’s Megabill. Then the Floods Came.

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ted Cruz has had quite a week. On Tuesday, the Texas senator ensured the Republican spending bill slashed funding for weather forecasting, only to then go on vacation to Greece while his state was hit by deadly flooding, a disaster critics say […]

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Is AI Pushing Us Closer to Nuclear Disaster?

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Earlier this year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that it was moving the hands of the Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds before midnight, a symbolic hour signifying global catastrophe. The hands have been moved only 25 times since the clock’s creation in 1947, and they’re now the closest they’ve pointed to worldwide destruction. […]

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The Republicans Kneecapped America’s Clean Energy Sector. Now Trump Aims to Squash It.

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The deficit-boosting bill President Donald Trump signed into law last Friday included provisions that will undermine US clean energy development. Indeed, a team led by Princeton energy expert Jesse Jenkins estimates that it will reduce US solar and wind output by at least 300 gigawatts by 2035—enough to power some 225 million homes. But some […]

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As Nations Lag on Climate Action, Cities Across the World Step Up

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Your city is probably fighting climate change in more ways than you realize. Perhaps your mayor is on a mission to plant more trees, or they’ve set efficiency standards for buildings, requiring better windows and insulation. Maybe they’ve even electrified your public […]

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Trump Admin Quietly Accelerates Massive Crude Oil Project on Colorado River

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Trump is using emergency powers to rush environmental review of a crude oil railway along the already-endangered river.

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Trump’s All-Out Assault on Science Constitutes a “Mind-Boggling Own-Goal”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference at the agency jeopardizing the future of US industries […]

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“Self-Inflicted Tragedy”: Washington’s Abrupt Turnaround on Climate Policy

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US House of Representatives voted 218 to 214 on Thursday to pass President Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill, greenlighting deep cuts to America’s social safety net and the decimation of the country’s only federal climate strategy. Democrats uniformly opposed the bill, while […]

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How Zohran Mamdani Tied Climate Policy to Voters’ Pocketbook Issues

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As she canvassed for Zohran Mamdani in New York City on Tuesday last week, Batul Hassan should have been elated. Her mayoral candidate—a 33-year-old state assemblymember—was surging in the polls and would within hours soundly defeat Andrew Cuomo on first preference […]

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Why So Many Low-Income Households Can’t Afford This Free Home Improvement Program

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The federal Weatherization Assistance Program is the oldest and largest energy efficiency initiative in American history. Born from the 1973 oil crisis, it helps low- and moderate-income households make a litany of upgrades to their homes, such as installing insulation, sealing windows, and […]

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Ban on AI Regulations in Trump’s Tax Bill Carries a Huge Environmental Cost

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Republicans are pushing to pass a major spending bill that includes provisions to prevent states from enacting regulations on artificial intelligence. Such untamed growth in AI will take a heavy toll upon the world’s dangerously overheating climate, experts have […]

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Senate Version of “Beautiful” Bill Will “Kill” America’s Clean Energy Sector, Experts Say

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The Senate version of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” unveiled to the public at Midnight on Friday, went even further than the House version in its hostility toward the nation’s burgeoning renewable energy sector. The House version merely seeks to end the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) subsidies for wind and solar development enacted […]

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