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Don’t look now, but the House just woke up to the cost of climate inaction
A climate-focused House committee returns from dead, awakens to staggering costs of inaction.
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Zinke out, Bernhardt in? It’s dirty business as usual at the Interior.
Interior secretary nominee David Bernhardt appears to be Zinke 2.0: perhaps more measured, but just as damaging for the environment.
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![Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan.]()
![Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan.]()
House Democrats just told the Pentagon to redo its climate change report
They were outraged by the first version.
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![A woman walks through a flooded street in Miami Beach, Florida.]()
![A woman walks through a flooded street in Miami Beach, Florida.]()
Who stands to lose the most from climate change? Red states.
Of the 16 states facing the highest losses, all but one voted for Donald Trump in 2016.
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The government is back, and it’s debunking Trump’s tweets
NOAA has the facts about extreme weather in a warming world.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes tech companies to task for conference promoting climate denial
She and Representative Chellie Pingree sent a letter to the companies on Monday about their sponsorship of the conference.
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A carbon tax back from the dead? Stranger things have happened.
Look who's back in Congress.
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![Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon pictured at a meeting in Beijing, China.]()
![Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon pictured at a meeting in Beijing, China.]()
Former U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon just endorsed Democrats’ fight for a Green New Deal
Yet the South Korean diplomat said the United Nations should continue to “welcome” the fossil fuel industry to participate in climate talks.
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![Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the Women's March in New York City.]()
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets biblical on Sarah Huckabee Sanders
On the third day, AOC quoted bible verses.
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Will this human dressed as a receipt convince Californians to ban paper receipts?
First, California came for the plastic bags. Then plastic straws. Could paper receipts be next?
