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![Enormous plume of black smoke billowing up into the sky behind houses on a residential street]()
![Enormous plume of black smoke billowing up into the sky behind houses on a residential street]()
‘This is absurd’: Train cars that derailed in Ohio were labeled non-hazardous
Ohio governor calls on Congress to investigate how that could happen.
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![Collage: broken cell phone, screwdriver and tweezers, blueprint of cell phone, IBM, Apple, and Google logos, and Governor Kathy Hochul signing a document]()
![Collage: broken cell phone, screwdriver and tweezers, blueprint of cell phone, IBM, Apple, and Google logos, and Governor Kathy Hochul signing a document]()
How Big Tech rewrote the nation’s first cell phone repair law
Documents reveal tech lobbyists revised a right-to-repair bill before New York's governor signed it.
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![President Joe Biden State of the Union 2023]()
![President Joe Biden State of the Union 2023]()
Biden spotlights climate victories in State of the Union. But where do we go from here?
"The climate crisis doesn't care if your state is red or blue."
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Minnesota to require 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040
Utilities can use a mix of solar, wind, hydropower, nuclear, hydrogen power, and biomass — energy obtained from burning wood and trash — to meet the 2040 goal.
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Exxon reports record profits, doubles down on fossil fuels
The White House responds with renewed calls to boost production.
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![lily pads float on a large body of water near a grove of cypress trees]()
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How a defunct Trump policy still threatens Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp
The short-lived rule is helping the mining industry from beyond the grave.
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![View of Hobart Bay off Stephens Passage in Tongass National Forest, Southeast Alaska, USA.]()
![View of Hobart Bay off Stephens Passage in Tongass National Forest, Southeast Alaska, USA.]()
Why Biden’s new protections don’t eliminate threats to the Tongass National Forest
The Agriculture Department just restored the so-called Roadless Rule, but federal land swaps could still open forest lands to logging.
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The unexpected barrier preventing American small towns from accessing federal climate funds
How a little-known federal grant requirement could hinder climate resilience work.
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![The closed New York Stock Exchange is barricaded with sand bags during the arrival of Hurricane Sandy.]()
![The closed New York Stock Exchange is barricaded with sand bags during the arrival of Hurricane Sandy.]()
How vulnerable is Wall Street to climate change? The Fed wants to find out.
The Federal Reserve is putting the country's biggest banks to a test.
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![Collage: President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with yellow diamond and blue circle from Brazil flag behind him; a tree and tree stump on either side]()
![Collage: President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with yellow diamond and blue circle from Brazil flag behind him; a tree and tree stump on either side]()
Brazil’s new president faces ‘scorched earth scenario’ left behind by Bolsonaro
For environmental protections in Brazil, a long rebuilding process lies ahead.
