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![Ground flare at the Exxon SABIC Gulf Coast Growth Ventures petrochemical plant in Portland Texas on Dec, 6, 2021.]()
![Ground flare at the Exxon SABIC Gulf Coast Growth Ventures petrochemical plant in Portland Texas on Dec, 6, 2021.]()
As alarm over plastic grows, Saudis ramp up production in the US
President Biden is in the kingdom this week to strengthen ties. Meanwhile, a U.S.-Saudi joint venture on the Texas coast is pumping out toxic chemicals and greenhouse gases.
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![Smoke billows from a factory]()
European lawmakers declared natural gas ‘green.’ Now they may face lawsuits.
Environmental advocates said they "will not rest" until the decision is overturned in court.
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Report: US on track to fall ‘significantly short’ of its climate goals
Without new policies, the nation won't even come close to halving emissions by the end of this decade.
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![Collage: United States Supreme Court building with planet Earth, an oil pumpjack, and vintage one hundred dollar bills surrounding it in a semi triangular layout]()
![Collage: United States Supreme Court building with planet Earth, an oil pumpjack, and vintage one hundred dollar bills surrounding it in a semi triangular layout]()
How a 50-year-old PR strategy influenced the Supreme Court’s EPA decision
E. Bruce Harrison developed the "Three Es" in the 1970s. Now the framing is everywhere.
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A Hawaii bill would limit solar power. Gov Ige plans to veto it
Controversial legislation would have derailed state's clean energy efforts.
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Biden proposes more offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska
The administration argues that without major climate policies to cut demand, lease sales will bring “net benefits.”
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![Collage: red scales weighing (left) a coal plant and (right) the EPA logo. Behind the scales is a cutout of the Supreme Court building with a green and black colored planet Earth rising behind the top right section of the roof. Smoke from the coal plant floats over the building and partially obscures the Earth; two stacks of blue dollar bills peek out behind the building on the left.]()
![Collage: red scales weighing (left) a coal plant and (right) the EPA logo. Behind the scales is a cutout of the Supreme Court building with a green and black colored planet Earth rising behind the top right section of the roof. Smoke from the coal plant floats over the building and partially obscures the Earth; two stacks of blue dollar bills peek out behind the building on the left.]()
The Supreme Court’s climate decision came out of a decades-long campaign to kneecap regulation
A brief history of how dark money and the country's most powerful legal organization brought us to this point.
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The Supreme Court’s EPA decision could have been much, much worse
The decision will limit — but not prevent — the EPA’s regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.
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![A busy street with cars and a biker in front of a gas station.]()
![A busy street with cars and a biker in front of a gas station.]()
The push to ban new gas stations is coming to Los Angeles
LA, the capital of car culture, could be the first big city to enact such a ban.
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Where have all the climate activists gone?
With legislation stalled, a mass protest movement is struggling to find its place.
