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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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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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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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Trump’s Energy Secretary Aims to Claw Back Billions Slated for Clean Energy Projects

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, on Wednesday announced that his department will return to the treasury billions of dollars set aside for green projects, while dodging questions about affordability and grid reliability and claiming international climate policy has […]

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The Dismantling of the US Forest Service Is Imminent

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This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the 1880s, giant cattle companies turned thousands of cattle out to graze on the “public domain”—i.e., the Western lands that had been stolen from Indigenous people and then opened up for white settlement. In remote southeastern […]

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Big Utilities Are Even Worse on Climate Than They Were Five Years ago

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Since 2021, the Sierra Club has been grading US utilities on their commitment to a clean-energy transition. While most utilities have not earned high marks on the group’s annual scorecards, as a whole they had been showing some progress.  That’s over now. […]

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These Texas Scientists Are Doing Their Best to Thwart Scary Mosquito-Borne Diseases

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Under a microscope, a mosquito can look stunning. Their blue-green iridescent scales, purple bands, and attractive spotted wings shimmer—dazzling enough to forget, for a moment, the insect lives to take a sip of your blood. Mosquitoes range in size, […]

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Report: Two-Thirds of Heat Deaths in Europe This Year Were the Result of Climate Change

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found. Epidemiologists and climate scientists attributed 16,500 out of 24,400 heat deaths from June to […]

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Report: Two-Thirds of Heat Deaths in Europe This Year Were the Result of Climate Change

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found. Epidemiologists and climate scientists attributed 16,500 out of 24,400 heat deaths from June to […]

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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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Justice Department Aims to Kill State Laws That Compel Major Polluters to Pay for Climate Harm

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump’s justice department has asked a judge to shut down a Vermont law which holds major polluters financially responsible for climate damages. In a brief filed on Monday in a federal court in Burlington, the administration said the policy was “unlawful on its […]

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