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Terrible news about the likely collapse of a profoundly important ocean current shows the limits of liberal rhetoric about “solving” climate change.

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Marine scientists are calling for the urgent reclassification of the extinction threat level faced by the emperor penguin, after a change in approach to assessing the conservation status of the species and the environmental status of its Antarctic habitat suggest...

Solar will soon overtake gas as California's largest source of power, based on recent growth rates.

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Maryland’s utilities reported lobbying on nearly 70 pieces of legislation in 2024, with $1 million spent by BGE and Pepco.

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Most states in the U.S. have a long way to go for improving community power, based on a scorecard from the Institute of Local Self-Reliance.

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CSX argues that many of the methods deployed by the community’s researchers, including low-cost air quality monitors, tape strips and statistical models, were flawed.

Snow and ice loss warms the land surface and air, setting off a feedback loop of further ice loss. This destabilises the landscape, with potentially hazardous impacts.

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Take action now to stop the MVP Southgate extension. The company has proposed a bunch of changes, but none of them make the project safer.

For more than a decade, Matthew Tejada was at the forefront of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s environmental justice efforts. Originally hired by the Obama administration to lead environmental justice efforts as the director of the Office of Environmental Justice,...

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Japan is the leading financier of liquified natural gas (LNG) export projects in the United States. Send a letter to Japanese financial institutions to urge them to stop funding climate destruction an...

China's steady expansion to coal-fired power capacity has drawn ire from U.S. power system advisers who gripe that there's little point in cleaning up generation at home while China lifts coal-fired emissions ever higher.

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