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![A map of the midwest with North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota highlighted and a pipeline and ears of corn on top]()
![A map of the midwest with North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota highlighted and a pipeline and ears of corn on top]()
A Midwest pipeline promises to return carbon dioxide to the ground
How conditions become ripe for carbon capture and storage to bloom in the ethanol industry.
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Oil companies want you to think they’re feminist. It’s BS.
Big Oil's tweets rang hollow on International Women's Day.
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![A photo of the container ship Gjertrud Maersk, anchored off the coast of Virginia Beach on June 29, 2020. The large, blue vessel is topped with hundreds of colorful shipping containers]()
![A photo of the container ship Gjertrud Maersk, anchored off the coast of Virginia Beach on June 29, 2020. The large, blue vessel is topped with hundreds of colorful shipping containers]()
The world’s first ‘carbon-neutral’ cargo ship is already low on gas
Shipping giant Maersk announced plans for a green methanol-powered vessel by 2023. But there isn't enough of the fuel to go around.
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![A silhouette of an industrial plant spewing gray clouds against a blue sky.]()
Study: Equivalent of COVID emissions drop is needed every 2 years
"Instead of build back better, it is more often a case of build back, whatever."
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![A photo of a girl digging touching the rubble of her burned home in Talent, Oregon. She is in the center of the image in a white outfit. The ground and debris are stained red from an airdrop fire retardant.]()
![A photo of a girl digging touching the rubble of her burned home in Talent, Oregon. She is in the center of the image in a white outfit. The ground and debris are stained red from an airdrop fire retardant.]()
Will race and income inequalities trip up Cascadia’s fight against climate change?
Fires, floods, and pollution are exposing disparities in Washington and Oregon.
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![An animation of the words global warming in a red rectangle getting crossed out on top of a background of a greyscale earth.]()
![An animation of the words global warming in a red rectangle getting crossed out on top of a background of a greyscale earth.]()
Report: Nobody talks about ‘global warming’ anymore
It's all about the climate crisis now.
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![A photo collage of a coal miner looking at a split arrow]()
![A photo collage of a coal miner looking at a split arrow]()
As coal dies, the US has no plan to help the communities left behind
Coal country can reinvent itself — if it gets the cash
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![A photograph of rusty abandoned oil pumps in rural Texas.]()
![A photograph of rusty abandoned oil pumps in rural Texas.]()
Dying oil companies’ parting gift: millions in cleanup costs
One Texas oil and gas company left the state responsible for almost $10 million after its 2019 bankruptcy.
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![A photo collage of the silhouette of California with a pair of worn work gloves on top, and a background of illustrated conifer trees.]()
![A photo collage of the silhouette of California with a pair of worn work gloves on top, and a background of illustrated conifer trees.]()
Biden wants to build a jobs corps to save the planet. California’s already doing it.
A California experiment holds lessons for Biden's Civilian Climate Corps.
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Texas repeatedly failed to protect its power grid against extreme weather
Too often, power companies get exactly what they want.
