Climate Desk
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Interior Department border deployments are mired in secrecy
What is the DOI up to?
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Trump’s bid to weaken the next federal climate report is likely to backfire
"[The Administrative Procedure Act is] not a terribly hard standard to meet; any agency that’s behaving somewhat rationally should be able to make it. Yet even following that extremely deferential standard, the Trump administration is completely failing.”
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If 2020 Democrats are going to be serious about climate, they need to cut out Congress
How can a president continue to push for environmental goals without the backing of Congress?
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Can small-scale farmers grow a healthier Central Valley?
Small farms in California's Central Valley could be helping soil bacteria and fungi, as well as attracting more pollinators.
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Scientists go back in time to find more troubling news about Earth’s ocean
“I think this is the first real demonstration that we have pushed plankton communities into a totally different state.”
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Disney World’s literal nuclear option, explained
“I don’t think Disney would ever [build a nuclear plant], I don’t foresee that, but I just want to prevent anything like that from occurring -- period.”
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5G networks could throw weather forecasting into chaos
Is it worth it to push our forecasting abilities back 40 years, just for faster cell service?
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This casino’s microgrid might be the future of energy
Blue Lake Rancheria could serve as a model for other remote communities seeking to establish energy independence.
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Bureau of Land Management scrubs stewardship language from news releases
“In [President Trump and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt's] world, our lands are only here for exploitation and financial gain, not protection and preservation.”
