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NEW YORK CITY - SEPTEMBER 3 2015: Republican candidate for president Donald Trump announced he had signed a pledge not to run as an independent candidate should he fail to win the party's nomination in 2016.

Trump calls climate change a hoax. Americans aren’t buying it

New polling finds broad agreement that the climate crisis is worsening heat, floods, and wildfires.
www.motherjones.com
Four cyclists on a curvy mountain road

The Tour de France has reached a climate tipping point

Record heat, a wildfire, and an unprecedented stage modification highlighted the growing challenge global warming poses to endurance sports.
grist.org
A lit gas stove burner.

Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs, US experts find

Team in Ohio finds swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite the study being scaled back by Trump cuts.

www.theguardian.com
A person standing in a park with a sign saying 'picnics not pipelines'

A proposed Eastern Kentucky gas pipeline to serve a power plant is stirring local opposition

Kentuckians living along the route of the proposed natural gas pipeline don't believe enough is being done to address safety and enviornmental concerns.
kentuckylantern.com
Two oil pump jacks against the setting sun

‘Absurdly high’: Alberta considering almost 21 gigawatts of gas-powered data centers

An expert warns that would require 200 billion liters of water and explode Canada’s emissions.

www.desmog.com
A yellow drilling tower against a cloudy sky

Gov. Shapiro walks a fine line on climate; his opponent just wants to drill.

As cash flows into Pennsylvania governor's race, ethical questions over Stacy Garrity's fracking income loom.
capitalandmain.com
A view of a factory with smoke spewing into the air

Many Massachusetts 'Gateway Cities' still lack state air quality monitors despite higher pollution burdens

After Canadian wildfire smoke blanketed the Northeast, environmental justice advocates renewed calls for better air quality monitoring in Massachusetts’s most disadvantaged communities.

commonwealthbeacon.org
A lake surrounded by thick forests

How industry is fragmenting Canada’s vast boreal forest

The economic benefits of big projects come with costs for the environment and climate.
thetyee.ca
Drone aerial view of new Microsoft data centers.

Environmental groups contest Texas data centers’ air pollution

Three environmental groups sent two San Antonio data centers a notice of intent to sue for failing to secure permits as major air polluters.
insideclimatenews.org
Indonesian coal mining operation featuring multiple excavators and rock trucks

Zeldin vows to fulfill coal industry’s ‘wish list’

The EPA administrator and other Trump officials on Tuesday celebrated coal's comeback under President Donald Trump and called for more industry support.
www.eenews.net
Woman riding in "muscle car" convertible, either standing or sitting on seat rest with arms upraised implying freedom of the road

The U.S. is pulling back on energy efficiency

The Trump administration is undoing fuel-saving efforts even as war in Iran, data centers, and heat waves are pushing up gasoline and electricity costs.

www.nytimes.com
Four gas pipelines stretching toward a gas facility

How Big Oil spent decades selling the myth of ‘clean’ natural gas

A new report reveals oil and gas companies knew as early as the mid-1970s that methane fueled climate change while launching massive PR campaigns to promote natural gas as clean energy.
www.desmog.com
Smoky skies in NYC showing the Empire State Building in the center

How wildfire smoke travels from Ontario to New York City — and turns distant city skies orange

Wildfires that have torched huge areas of forest and devastated communities are also sending smoke far and wide, prompting air quality warnings in distant cities and heated political rhetoric from the U.S.

www.cbc.ca
Workers finishing a concrete floor in an under-construction industrial space

The Kansas community fighting data centers before they arrive

A group of residents in Lawrence, Kansas, believe they have everything a data center developer could want: ample farmland, energy, and the Kansas River. As nearby towns face massive data center proposals, they’ve formed a well-organized opposition, learning from fellow advocates to discourage developers from bringing projects to their town.
www.thenewlede.org
SEPTEMBER 28 2015: Businessman and presidential candidate Donald Trump holding a press conference at Trump Tower, NYC

Trump threatens National Academies with debarment. Here's what it is

The president invoked an obscure process to review the institution's federal grants over what he says is "climate fraud."
www.eenews.net
Statue of Liberty against a smoky, smoggy, sky and backdrop

EPA violated key soot standard in Clean Air Act, court rules

The agency now has until early 2027 to implement the strengthened particulate matter standard and designate the areas with air pollution violating it.
insideclimatenews.org
A long road stretching into a desert landscape with a speed limit sign showing 25 mph

Obeying speed limits would save 57,000 tons of carbon a day

A study of more than 120 million trips finds that Americans' rush to save time on the road comes at an outsize environmental cost.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
Wind turbine towers awaiting assembly

States join fight against Trump administration’s wind farm blockade

The Department of Defense has essentially frozen permitting for new wind installations over the last year, preventing more than 155 projects from moving forward.

www.canarymedia.com
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