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Gas from thawing Arctic permafrost is changing world's climate future

Scientists warn that thawing permafrost in the Arctic is releasing large amounts of methane and carbon dioxide, adding to global warming.
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A Chevron gas pump showing a sale of $128.36 for 18.606 gallons

The true cost of Trump's fuel economy rollbacks

Weakened US fuel-efficiency rules and promises of cheaper cars could yet see drivers pay higher running costs while increasing planet-heating emissions.
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A power plant with smoke emitting from the smokestacks

Montana officials praise repeal of power plant emission regulations, watchdog groups pan decision

The Environmental Protection Agency is rolling back greenhouse gas emission requirements for U.S. power plants, which the agency said will save $310 billion, in a press release earlier this month. 
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Rural landscape showing farm with solar photo voltaic panels system on a barn roof.

The USDA just made it way harder for farmers to get grants for solar

Even farmers who were already promised funds from the REAP program may never get them under the Trump admin’s new restrictions. Some are suing.
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Black and white cows with manure digester for production of biogas in background.

California illegally spurred “gold rush in cow manure,” lawsuit alleges

California regulators broke state environmental laws by allowing polluters to buy clean fuel credits from large farms that are extracting gas from manure, a policy that harms poor communities and perverts the state’s clean air program, four advocacy groups allege in a lawsuit.
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Mannequin headshot wearing a yellow blindfold labeled "disinformation" in red letters

Australia’s climate chief promises harder line on misinformation

Senior public servant says bureaucrats will speak up about misinformation that risks policy progress.

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Unidentified poor people near their houses at slums in Tripureshwor district, Kathmandu.

After another natural disaster, can Nepal sue wealthy countries for climate change destruction?

Just days after a plea for global climate action, Nepal faces yet another disaster.
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A view of a pump jack drilling for oil with the sunset in the background

‘Digger’ is the year’s big climate movie. This climate reporter hated it

Tom Cruise’s latest film is a crude parable about an unrepentant oil executive.
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Drone aerial view of new Microsoft data centers

When data centers cluster together, how dirty are they? One county wants answers

An unusual study aims to estimate the pollution and health costs from a cluster of proposed data centers, instead of considering each one separately.
www.nytimes.com
An image of frozen food in tupperware in a freezer

A 100-year-old freezer rule has a hidden climate cost

Frozen food worldwide is still kept at −18°C (0°F). Raising that by just three degrees could avoid 17 million tons of emissions a year, and an 18-month study found most foods stay safe and tasty.
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Refinery against a mountainous backdrop

Opinion: Boulder seeks damages for climate harms in pivotal Supreme Court suit

The Clean Air Act was not designed to shield fossil fuel companies from legal accountability or to eviscerate states’ authority to protect their citizens from conduct that brings harm to communities and costs the taxpayers billions.

thehill.com
A view of the Charles River with the Harvard University campus in the background

How elite universities got tangled up in politics and petroleum

Half a century of corporate influence set the stage for Trump's attacks on higher education, a new study argues.
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Scales of justice with a harmonious green ecosystem on one side and a dirty polluted fossil fuel plagued industrial site on the other scale.

Alito’s recusal from climate case: Too little, too late?

Justice Samuel Alito decided Monday to sit out one of the most consequential climate change cases to reach the Supreme Court, but legal experts expected continuing ramifications due to his ownership of individual corporate stocks, including in the fossil fuel industry.

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Coal-burning power plant emitting air pollution against an orange sky

The coal industry asked for a rescue. Trump obliged

In a previously-unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.

www.nytimes.com
A coal mine in the midst of a beautiful environment

Colorado coal mine leaks nearly four times the limit

Colorado's West Elk coal mine is violating methane leak caps, the state says, and environmental groups want strict enforcement.
coloradosun.com
Illustration of a hand holding a disposable lighter under an overheating Earth

Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers

A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.

www.politico.com
A young boy kicking a soccer ball on an artificial turf surface

Opinion: Before we put more plastic under our kids, we need to stop and think

As our climate becomes hotter and extreme heat becomes more common, the surface beneath our children matters. And the consequences of getting that decision wrong could last for decades.

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A view of a city street with cars and tall buildings

Trump administration plans to gut clean car rules

New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.
www.nytimes.com
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