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![Collage: people protesting behind Joe Biden signing a paper with a green bar beneath them; a red bar with a refinery and smoke with dollar signs coming out of the stacks; a green half circle with solar panels and a wind turbine]()
![Collage: people protesting behind Joe Biden signing a paper with a green bar beneath them; a red bar with a refinery and smoke with dollar signs coming out of the stacks; a green half circle with solar panels and a wind turbine]()
‘Make the clean stuff cheaper’: Did the IRA kill the carbon tax?
How Democrats came around to cutting taxes to save the climate.
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![Animation of Earth as pie chart; one third section of the earth grows into a section of three quarters and loops back to one third]()
![Animation of Earth as pie chart; one third section of the earth grows into a section of three quarters and loops back to one third]()
Americans are convinced climate action is unpopular. They’re very, very wrong.
Support for climate policies is double what most people think, a new study found.
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![Animation: three smokestacks with smoke disappearing against a blue sky]()
![Animation: three smokestacks with smoke disappearing against a blue sky]()
Will the Inflation Reduction Act jumpstart carbon capture?
The new climate law makes tax credits for the controversial tech more lucrative and easier to access.
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![Aerial view of bleached sections of rock surrounding Lake Powell, showing the amount the water level has dropped due to climate change]()
![Aerial view of bleached sections of rock surrounding Lake Powell, showing the amount the water level has dropped due to climate change]()
Federal government announces historic water cuts as Colorado River falls to new lows
“The system is approaching a tipping point."
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![Biden signs a bill surrounded by other Democratic leaders]()
![Biden signs a bill surrounded by other Democratic leaders]()
Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act into law
It’s the single biggest climate package in U.S. history.
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![Collage: american flag with stack of paper labeled Inflation Reduction Act, with a stamp reading]()
![Collage: american flag with stack of paper labeled Inflation Reduction Act, with a stamp reading]()
House passes the Inflation Reduction Act, the ‘most significant’ climate bill in US history
It's the “most comprehensive, most complete, most serious climate bill that the Congress has ever passed.”
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![Charlie Baker at a podium]()
Massachusetts’ Republican governor signs far-reaching climate bill into law
It’s “a big f****ing deal.”
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Interior Department backtracks on public comment period for Willow project
The government told an Alaska Native village it would have more time to give feedback on an oil project. Then it reversed course.
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![Collage: newspaper clippings with headlines about drought; photos of a yard with brown grass and a hose, cracked earth, a faucet dripping water, a field of dead almond trees, and a mountain with barely any snowpack on it; a circle made of wavy yellow lines is on top of the center of the collage]()
![Collage: newspaper clippings with headlines about drought; photos of a yard with brown grass and a hose, cracked earth, a faucet dripping water, a field of dead almond trees, and a mountain with barely any snowpack on it; a circle made of wavy yellow lines is on top of the center of the collage]()
How climate change spurs megadroughts
The curious connection between the sky’s “thirstiness” and the dry spell devastating the western U.S.
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![Gulf of Mexico oil rig]()
![Gulf of Mexico oil rig]()
The Inflation Reduction Act promises thousands of new oil leases. Drillers might not want them.
The bigger question about Joe Manchin’s fossil fuel provisions is if they’ll succeed on the senator’s own terms.
