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Trump Team’s Plans to Exploit Public Lands Follow the Blueprint of Reagan’s Interior Secretary

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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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World’s Governments Fail to Agree to a Moratorium on Deep-Sea Mining

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“Exploiting the seabed is not a necessity — it is a choice,” said Palau’s president. “And it is reckless.”

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World’s Governments Fail to Agree to a Moratorium on Deep-Sea Mining

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“Exploiting the seabed is not a necessity — it is a choice,” said Palau’s president. “And it is reckless.”

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Science Moms’ Bipartisan Mission: Educate Other Mothers About Climate Change

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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. The devastating flood that swept through Camp Mystic in Texas this month is every parent’s worst nightmare. Hours or days of fear and uncertainty, feeling powerless to help, and, for the families of the 27 campers and […]

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“Another Big Lie”: Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Regulating Greenhouse Gases

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Donald Trump is coming for the “holy grail” of climate regulations. As multiple media outlets reported this week, the administration plans to roll back the “endangerment finding,” an Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency decision at the center of the government’s ability to address climate change. On paper, the endangerment finding states that greenhouse gases like methane […]

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The Hague Just Upped the Stakes on Trump’s “Drill Baby, Drill” Agenda

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tuesday’s landmark advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on climate change came as residents of some island nations are already “scraping barnacles off our grandfathers’ graves” as sea-level rise accelerates, said Julian Aguon, an Indigenous human rights lawyer and writer […]

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Employees Kept in the Dark as EPA Dismantles Scientific Research Office

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Employees of the crucial scientific research arm of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have been left with more questions than answers as the agency moves to officially wind down the office following months of back-and-forth. On Friday evening, the EPA issued a press release announcing a […]

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“Like a Zombie Apocalypse: Trump’s Budget Cuts Stir Fears of Frightening Pipeline Mishaps

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This story was originally published by the Guardian, and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a clear February evening in 2020, a smell of rotten eggs started to waft over the small town of Satartia, Mississippi, followed by a green-tinged cloud. A load roar could be heard near the highway that passes the […]

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Los Angeles Is Rebuilding Very Slowly From Its Devastating Wildfires. Here’s why.

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This story was originally published by Vox.com, and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the wake of the record-breaking wildfires in Los Angeles in January—some of the most expensive and destructive blazes in history—one of the first things California Gov. Gavin Newsom did was to sign an executive order suspending environmental rules around rebuilding. The idea was that […]

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Why Flash Flood Warnings Are Never Enough

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This year’s Fourth of July was the first time that the town of Comfort, Texas, used the sirens intended to warn its roughly 2,000 residents of imminent flooding. Founded by German abolitionists in 1854, Comfort sits along the Guadalupe River in […]

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America’s Worst Polluters See a Lifeline in Power-Gobbling AI—and Donald Trump

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. AI is “not my thing,” President Donald Trump admitted during a speech in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. However, the president said during his remarks at the Energy and Innovation Summit, his advisers had told him just how important energy was to the future of […]

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FL Miccosukee Tribe Joins Environmental Groups Suing Over “Alligator Alcatraz”

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The tribe will keep fighting to “protect the land and save the land that saved us,” said the tribal council secretary.

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