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A view of the Charles River with the Harvard University campus in the background

How elite universities got tangled up in politics and petroleum

Half a century of corporate influence set the stage for Trump's attacks on higher education, a new study argues.
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Scales of justice with a harmonious green ecosystem on one side and a dirty polluted fossil fuel plagued industrial site on the other scale.

Alito’s recusal from climate case: Too little, too late?

Justice Samuel Alito decided Monday to sit out one of the most consequential climate change cases to reach the Supreme Court, but legal experts expected continuing ramifications due to his ownership of individual corporate stocks, including in the fossil fuel industry.

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The coal industry asked for a rescue. Trump obliged

In a previously-unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.

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Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers

A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.

www.politico.com
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Climate risks escalate when authoritarian regimes keep neighbors in the dark

Authoritarian regimes have a history of keeping information about escalating disasters secret, even when it could harm their own citizens.

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Illinois passed the nation’s first climate migration law. The effort has languished since

More than a year after the law was signed, the state has made little progress and appears poised to miss a December deadline for a required report.
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Two men drilling a geothermal well for a residential geothermal heat pump.

New Colorado neighborhood could offer glimpse into the future of home energy use

The partners behind a project in suburban Denver think they’ve found a way to accelerate the adoption of residential geothermal heating and cooling.
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How Trump is unintentionally helping the world’s climate

While the president remains a climate-change denier, the war with Iran has triggered an unforeseen benefit in the fight against global warming.
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Trump administration plans to gut clean car rules

New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.
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‘Love letter’: California Attorney General takes aim at Trump’s links to Big Oil

Democrat Rob Bonta is preparing to fight the president’s rollback of a regulatory keystone on climate.

www.politico.com
Rubble and stuffed child's toys in the aftermath of a destructive flood

Two years after Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina, people are still living in harm’s way

The aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and the floods in Texas’ Hill Country expose weaknesses in federal and state policies that allow people to live in dangerous areas where homes could be swept away.

www.propublica.org
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Meet the Michigan climate candidate on Trump’s radar

Sunrise Movement co-founder William Lawrence’s toss-up congressional race has drawn progressives, data center critics, and the president.

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Fossil-fuel firms in line for billions in benefits after answering Trump’s donation call

Senators’ report says taxpayers face higher bills after "bargain" between president and major polluters.

www.theguardian.com
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Trump cut their climate jobs. This secretive network found them new ones

Climate Reserve has been quietly building a lifeline for America's lost climate workforce, one job at a time.
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Illustrative example of AI cube as data transport and an also an intrusive entity being "plunked down" on a circuit board representative of a cityscape

AI’s meet-cute with climate denial

Just in time for Climate Week NYC, President Trump calls concerns over global warming and artificial intelligence a “hoax.”
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Newsom counters Trump's stance on climate issues while in New York

California Governor Gavin Newsom met with world and business leaders to advance climate action and clean energy in New York.

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Black and white cows with manure digester for production of biogas in background.

Manure digesters worsen ammonia air emissions from hog farms, study finds

Ammonia emissions, which can harm a person’s ability to breathe, are more than three times higher when emitted from manure that has been through a digester compared to manure that is directed  into storage lagoons or sprayed on fields, according to a new study. 
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At the UN, Panama champions a universal declaration on the rights of nature

Panama’s center-right president called on world leaders to adopt a new non-binding treaty, building on his nation’s own national rights of nature laws.
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