Arctic environments are entering dangerous feedback loops that accelerate the climate crisis.
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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Liquefied natural gas vessels are fueled by their cargo—they’re built specifically to make use of the gas boiling off from their tanks. Now Cheniere Energy, the largest US exporter of LNG, is seeking “alternative fuel” tax credits for […]
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All eyes were on North Carolina this week, as Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley formally announced a run for Senate in the key battleground state, backed with an endorsement from Donald Trump. Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, has also announced plans to run, kicking off what’s expected to be among the […]
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Did RNC Chair Michael Whatley Help Run a Fossil Fuel “Front Group”? Read Post »
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. US liberals have become so disgusted with Tesla since Elon Musk’s rightward turn that they are now not only far less likely to purchase the car brand but also less willing to buy any type of electric car, […]
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Elon Musk Has Turned Off Many Liberals to Electric Vehicles—and Not Just Teslas Read Post »
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. US liberals have become so disgusted with Tesla since Elon Musk’s rightward turn that they are now not only far less likely to purchase the car brand but also less willing to buy any type of electric car, […]
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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a Friday evening this July, the Trump administration announced it would lay off all of the health research scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency. Hundreds of investigators who try to understand how toxic pollution affects the human body would be gone. That […]
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RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Is on a Collision Course with Trump’s EPA Read Post »
This story originally appeared on the author’s substack newsletter, Field Notes From Alexander C. Kaufman, to which you can subscribe here. A top official at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is resigning from her post amid the Trump administration’s attempts to overhaul atomic energy rules and chip away at the agency’s independence. Commissioner Annie Caputo, a Republican whom President […]
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Resignation of a Top US Nuclear Regulator Seen as an Attack on Agency Independence 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 »
Earlier this summer, Tara McDermott, who’s in charge of policy communications for a New York state solar developer called EmPower Solar, was telling me a woeful tale a lot like others I’d been hearing lately. A customer whom I’ll call Pam had tried to put solar panels on top of her home in Mount Vernon […]
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Rooftop Solar Is a Miracle. Why Are We Killing It With Red Tape? Read Post »
This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Earth has never been so hot. Millions of people, amounting to nearly half the country, across the Southeast, Midwest, and Northeast are under heat alerts. Outside of the United States, an early heat wave in India and Pakistan saw temperatures reaching 120 degrees Fahrenheit. […]
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What To Do, and Not Do, During a Heat Wave Read Post »
This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Americans are paying more for electricity, and those prices are set to rise even further. In almost all parts of the country, the amount people pay for electricity on their power bills—the retail price—has risen faster than the rate of […]
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This story was originally published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Since his January inauguration, Donald Trump has unleashed a bonfire of deregulatory concessions and promises to privatize natural resources for critical minerals mining, energy development, logging, and suburban sprawl. Federal lands, natural resources, and the […]
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