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flooded street with three car rooftops peaking above water

Climate change ‘beyond scientific dispute,’ National Academies report says

The report is a sharp rebuttal to a recent Trump administration's report, and Republicans have already targeted the report as “a blatant partisan act.”
www.politico.com
Coral reef and associated marine life

Corals won’t survive a warmer planet, a new study finds

Most corals in the Atlantic Ocean will soon stop growing. Many are already dying, leaving shorelines and marine ecosystems vulnerable.
www.nytimes.com
A power plant in the distance with smoke arising from towers

Dominion’s proposed peaker plant flouts environmental justice, community says

The utility’s environmental justice analysis lacks community health data, according to attorneys representing affected residents.
insideclimatenews.org
A man sitting at a desk with a laptop and computer printouts

Trump's call to end quarterly reports gets unlikely support from climate-conscious investors

A call by Donald Trump to ditch quarterly corporate reporting has received cautious support from an unlikely source: international investors pushing business to do more on longer-term sustainability issues, many lambasted by the U.S. president.
www.reuters.com
Marching for climate with sign: "There Is No Planet B"

It isn’t just the U.S. The whole world has soured on climate politics.

How do we think about the climate future, now that the era marked by the Paris Agreement has so utterly disappeared?
www.nytimes.com
Vermont statehouse in Montpelier, Vermont

Trump administration asks judge to rule against Vermont’s climate superfund law

In a new motion for summary judgment, the U.S. Department of Justice insists Vermont cannot make polluters pay for harm caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
vtdigger.org
Lobbyist oil barrel icon

US senator calls on big oil to disclose suspected lobbying over Trump plan to axe key climate rule

Senate committee investigates suspected push that led administration to overturn EPA’s endangerment finding.

www.theguardian.com
SpaceX rocket blasting off

Elon Musk has criticized environmental regulations. His companies have been accused of sidestepping them.

Musk considers environmental regulation a barrier to innovation. As he eyes a new project in Houston, here’s what to know about some of his companies’ past projects that have faced scrutiny from regulators and environmental advocates.
www.propublica.org
Gas stove lit burner

Appliance makers erase gas pollution warnings amid stove label fight

Manufacturers fighting a Colorado health warning law argue gas stoves are safe. Some of their websites have suggested otherwise.
grist.org
An aerial view of a cleared area of a forest

Texas refinery’s ‘green’ jet fuel linked to Amazon deforestation

A Texas biofuel plant supplying major U.S. airlines with “sustainable” jet fuel has been sourcing cattle fat tied to ranches on illegally deforested Amazon land, raising questions about the true climate impact of the industry’s green fuel push.

www.reuters.com
A small home with boarded windows and flood-damaged personal effects piled on the sidewalk

Trump’s killing of climate grants has recipients second-guessing federal help

"The risk is way too high and the effort is way too large," said one environmental group founder about federal grants.
www.politico.com
People watching remotely Montana youth climate lawsuit

Young climate activists who won landmark trial are challenging Trump's energy orders

Young climate activists and their attorneys who won a landmark global warming trial against the state of Montana are challenging President Donald Trump's energy agenda.
apnews.com
A deforested area with a cow walking across the grass

More deforestation leads to a drier dry season, Amazon study finds

In Brazil’s southern Amazonian region, where the notorious “arc of deforestation” has been expanding since the 1970s, forest loss is reshaping the region’s atmospheric water cycle.

news.mongabay.com
northern siberian tundra

The Siberian tundra is exploding. New research helps explain why.

Spontaneous gas explosions appear to be increasing in northern Russia because of climate change and some specific local conditions.
www.nytimes.com
A steel plant with smoke billowing from smokestacks.

Hoosiers will wait 2 more years for cleaner air near Indiana steel mills

The U.S. EPA delayed pollution standards at steel mills for two more years worrying public health advocates.
www.indystar.com
seemingly homeless Black man, woman, and child

Trump ends critical environmental, health projects in Black communities

The Trump administration has canceled nearly two dozen projects, according to a Post analysis, undermining efforts on pollution, sewage leaks and flooding.
www.washingtonpost.com
A factory or power plant with smokestacks emitting pollution

Trump's EPA plans to stop making companies report their emissions

The EPA has proposed rescinding its long-standing greenhouse gas reporting program, which tracks emissions from thousands of facilities nationwide. Critics warn the move would blind policymakers, states, and the public to the true scale of climate pollution.

www.notus.org
Small uninhabited South Pacific island with a dozen palm trees

China, climate crisis and Cop31: five takeaways from the Pacific Islands Forum

A key climate crisis funding treaty struck as Pacific leaders backed Australia’s bid for Cop31 despite some criticism of its environmental credentials.

www.theguardian.com
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