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The country watched in horror as torrential rain drenched Texas earlier this month, sweeping at…Trump and the energy industry are eager to power AI with fossil fuels
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AI is “not my thing,” President Donald Trump admitted during a speech in Pittsburgh on…The race to build solar and wind in New York before Trump’s tax credit deadline
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As negotiations over President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” came down to the wire in…Standing Rock was an Indigenous-led movement. Why did Greenpeace take the fall?
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It looked for a while like the coal mining era was over in the Clearfork Valley of East Tennessee, a…Trump is fast-tracking new coal mines – even when they don’t make economic sense
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It looked for a while like the coal mining era was over in the Clearfork Valley of East Tennessee, a…After deadly flash floods, a Texas town takes halting, painful steps toward recovery
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By Wednesday, almost two weeks after the July 4 floods that devastated the Central Texas region that…USDA abruptly cancels rural energy grant application window
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For over two decades, Bruce Everly has been helping Indiana farmers apply for funding from the…Inside the movement to recognize nature as an artist
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Have you ever listened to a recording of birdsong? Or ocean waves? The howling of wolves, or thunder…How reducing the U.S. military budget would also reduce emissions
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The next time you’re on a flight worrying about destroying the planet, rest easy knowing that at…Why flash flood warnings will continue to go unheeded
Jul 16, 2025, 4:15 am By Rebecca Egan McCarthy
This year’s Fourth of July was the first time that the town of Comfort, Texas, used the sirens…A tribe in Florida joins the fight against the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention center
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The Miccosukee Tribe in Florida joined environmental groups on Tuesday to sue the federal and state…This fuel is 50% plastic — and it’s slipping through a loophole in international waste law
Jul 15, 2025, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
Since 2019, the 191 countries that are party to an international agreement called the Basel…Texas food banks are rationing meals for flood survivors because of Trump’s cuts
Jul 14, 2025, 6:03 pm By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Early in the morning on July 4th, as torrential rains battered Central Texas, the dangers of flash…Chicago was supposed to warn residents about toxic lead pipes last year. Most still have no idea.
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Beatriz Salazar was sifting through her usual pile of mail this spring when an envelope from the…Why the federal government is making climate data disappear
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For 25 years, a group of the country’s top experts has been fastidiously tracking the ways that…A heat wave hit New England’s grid. Clean energy saved the day.
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As temperatures across New England soared above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in recent weeks, solar…‘Disasters are a human choice’: Texas counties have little power to stop building in flood-prone areas
Jul 12, 2025, 9:00 am By Joshua Fechter
Camp Mystic, the private summer camp that now symbolizes the deadly Central Texas floods, sat on a…Inside New Orleans’ plan to fix its energy-hogging buildings
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