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Fossil fuels are a clear and present danger to national security

Relying on carbon energy is a direct threat to American national security, no matter how one might characterize it.

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The climate time bomb in the atmosphere

Cleaning up air pollution might increase global temperature by as much as an entire degree Celsius.
Building back severed communities
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Building back severed communities

The Biden administration wants to reconnect historically Black and Latino neighborhoods cut off by highway construction. There’s promise and peril in that.
A green transition for West Virginia
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A green transition for West Virginia

Last month, the Political Economy Research Institute of UMass Amherst released a report on a proposed clean-energy transition program for West Virginia.

Puffins: Harbingers of climate change
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Puffins: Harbingers of climate change

These small ocean birds are the proverbial canary in the coal mine as the ecology of their habitat worsens.
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