A Nobel for climate economics

Worthy of your time: A nuanced discussion on Twitter about winners William Nordhaus and Paul Romer.

Plenty of conversations erupted on Twitter after the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in economics to William Nordhaus and Paul Romer, who pioneered environmental economics and efforts to create long-term sustainable economic growth.

One discussion, triggered by veteran Vox reporter David Roberts, is worthy of your attention for its nuance and its reference to Harvard University's Martin Weitzman, another titan in the field of environmental economics.

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6 takeaways as Trump takes sledgehammer to power plant climate regulations

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U.S. ‘super-emitters’ of planet-heating methane identified by satellite analysis

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Studies link New Mexico drilling to radiation, pollution, and health risks

Small towns in the Permian Basin have become a petri dish for the perils of living amid the United States' largest oil fields.

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Jet fuel in the water

This week, co-host Jake Bolster and reporters Marianne Lavelle and Liza Gross discuss the polluting power of fossil fuels and how they are harming two communities in very different ways.

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New England affirms faith in wind energy’s future

Maine just picked winning projects in a regional bid for new generation and transmission. Here’s what we know so far, and what comes next.

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Global warming will breach the 1.5 degree Celsius limit. Now what?

As global temperature increase shoots past 1.5 degrees Celsius, the vulnerable countries that fought for that Paris Agreement target face a brutal new reality.

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Some Ontario students can’t escape the extreme heat

Children are especially vulnerable to extreme heat. Some students in Ontario, Canada's Peel Region may have little relief when both their schools and homes are difficult to cool.

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