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As Houston choked on toxic fumes, Texas legislators targeted air quality programs
While Houstonians were dealing with the aftermath of a chemical fire, Republican lawmakers were looking to defund the state's air quality programs.
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Tauntauns, seahorses, and lotsa babies: Mike Lee trolls the Green New Deal
The Utah senator's bizarre speech shows how broken our government is
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Want to be 2020’s climate candidate? Fly less
Bernie Sanders is the first 2020 candidate to offset his travel. Here's why that's not enough anymore.
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Kids to teachers: We need to talk about climate change
Last week, thousands of students skipped school, calling for better climate ed. Good idea, but how do we make that happen?
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![President Trump signs the hat of Bruce Adams, Chairman of the San Juan County Commission, following a Presidential Proclamation shrinking Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.]()
![President Trump signs the hat of Bruce Adams, Chairman of the San Juan County Commission, following a Presidential Proclamation shrinking Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.]()
Trump’s monument review was a big old sham
House Democrats investigate the Trump administration’s “inadequate” review and rollback of protected sites in Utah.
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Students share motivations ahead of Youth Climate Strike
Why are students walking out of schools on Friday? To save their communities from climate change.
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Beto O’Rourke is running for president. Now about that environmental record …
Beto calls for the country to "confront the challenge of climate change before it’s too late."
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New York City public schools will adopt ‘Meatless Mondays’
The nation's largest school district is saying buh-bye to serving meat on Mondays.
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How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal is being built
Is it possible to come up with a solution to the climate crisis, the economic crisis, and the global crisis, all at the same time? New Consensus aims to find out.
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Trump’s ‘Budget for a better America’ means worse climate change
Which also means 'worse America'.
