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The hidden history of how Big Oil invented the American Dream

From the family car to the dream kitchen, fossil fuel companies sold a way of life that depended on their products. New evidence shows how they did it.
grist.org
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Oil and tech money back measure to limit California environmental law

Proposition 45 would ease development of a wide range of projects, including some fossil-fuel facilities and possibly AI data centers.
capitalandmain.com
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Where fossil fuels are lurking in your home — room by room

Tour our miniature dream house to see how oil and gas became part of everyday products.
grist.org
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How data centers are shaping Black voters’ climate concerns

Concerns about utility bills, data centers, and pollution show why Black Americans want action from elected officials.
capitalbnews.org
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Twenty years after California’s landmark climate law, the state is not on track to meet its targets

California’s landmark 2006 climate law helped the state meet its first emissions target six years early, but upcoming goals are harder to reach.

www.latimes.com
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Emissions gap report identifies US as outlier among G20 nations

The scientific report, identifies the United States as an outlier among the nations responsible for the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions.
www.nytimes.com
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Massachusetts withholds climate and energy studies costing taxpayers $1.2 million

Massachusetts officials have delayed or withheld the release of three taxpayer-funded studies examining the costs of transitioning to clean energy.

commonwealthbeacon.org
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Trump vowed to stop an 'energy emergency.' Then he created a real one

The president used executive powers to boost oil and coal, but he can't fix the shortages caused by the Iran war.
grist.org
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Life-size statue of Ron DeSantis intentionally melting in clap back to climate change deniers

The life-size statue’s face has melted away to reveal a skull underneath.

www.the-independent.com
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Data centers are burning fossil fuels. That's destroying Big Tech's climate goals

In his new book, Paris Marx explores how global anti-data center movements are fighting Big Tech’s power over us.
www.cnet.com
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Amazon deforestation hits record low in Brazil, but El Niño and a tight election threaten progress

Deforestation fell almost 42% in a year, but a possible change in president could reverse the trend.
www.euronews.com
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Why beef prices keep rising as drought shrinks US cattle herds

As long as climate change keeps worsening droughts, ranchers will be cautious about raising more cattle.
www.bloomberg.com
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Most major carbon emitters barely mention health in their climate plans

Low- and middle-income countries that contribute little to global warming have done the most to plan for its toll on health, while the major economies behind more than half the world’s emissions barely consider it in their latest climate commitments.

healthpolicy-watch.news
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The world is crumbling in 'The History of Concrete'

John Wilson reveals the poetry in one of the world's most common materials — and an environmental catastrophe hiding in plain sight.

grist.org
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‘Subsidizing suicide’: UN chief urges governments to stop propping up polluting fossil fuels

Fossil fuels are 'boiling our planet', says Guterres. Yet COP31 hosts Türkiye and Australia are expanding them, a new report shows.
www.euronews.com
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Brussels says EU countries partly to blame for failure on key climate rule

There’s a circular blame game going on over who’s responsible for failures in EU methane law.
www.politico.eu
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Opinion: ‘Digger,’ Tom Cruise’s big flop, is a secret masterpiece

The film has been panned by critics and shunned by audiences, but its message about the climate crisis is one we need to hear.
www.nytimes.com
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Alberta’s fracking boom, in photos

Here's what life is like in a fracking hot spot, where locals say the creeks are dry and the roads are ruined.

thenarwhal.ca
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