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Global energy giants forced to adapt to rise of renewables

Companies face world where falling cost of solar and wind power pushes down prices.

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A running list of how Trump is changing the environment

The Trump administration has promised vast changes to U.S. science and environmental policy - and we're tracking them here as they happen.

Solar-panel makers have just hours left to avoid Trump's tariffs
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Solar-panel makers have just hours left to avoid Trump's tariffs

Solar panel makers trying to get around tariffs President Donald Trump has imposed on imported equipment are running out of time.
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Billion-dollar polar engineering ‘needed to slow melting glaciers’

Underwater sea walls and artificial islands among projects urgently required to avoid devastation of global flooding, say scientists.

Kelp farms and mammoth windmills are just two of the government’s long-shot energy bets
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Kelp farms and mammoth windmills are just two of the government’s long-shot energy bets

Thousands of entrepreneurs gathered near Washington this week for an annual government conference. On the agenda: Unusual solutions to major clean-energy problems.
Trump's FEMA ignores climate change in strategic plan for disaster response
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Trump's FEMA ignores climate change in strategic plan for disaster response

Under Obama, the Federal Emergency Management Agency emphasized climate risk. The new plan fails to even mention the words 'climate change' or 'sea level rise.'
Stark differences in climate impacts between 1.5 and 2 degrees of warming
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Stark differences in climate impacts between 1.5 and 2 degrees of warming

A difference of just half a degree of global warming, from 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius, would mean that an additional 5 million people worldwide will have the land where their homes are located be permanently submerged underwater, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

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Toxic air lingers in Texas Latino community, revealing failures in state’s air monitoring system

Public data from a network of state air monitors around the Houston Ship Channel is hard to interpret and is often inadequate, leaving Latino-majority neighborhoods like Cloverleaf unaware of whether the air they breathe is safe.

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El aire tóxico en una comunidad latina de Texas revela los fallos del sistema estatal de control de calidad del aire

Los datos públicos de una red de monitores estatales del aire alrededor del Canal de Navegación de Houston son difíciles de interpretar y a menudo son insuficientes, dejando a vecindarios de mayoría latina, como Cloverleaf, sin saber si el aire que respiran es seguro.

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Protesting oil and gas line development harms mental health and creates distrust in government: Study

“The number of stress-activated health conditions people reported was quite staggering."

Global Plastic Treaty

This will be a big year in shaping the future of chemical recycling

The controversial practice looms large in state environmental laws, federal regulation and global plastic treaty negotiations.

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What is chemical recycling?

While industry claims it could be part of a circular plastics economy, experts say that chemical recycling is extremely damaging to the environment and provides no real benefits.

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