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No great escape: Tory scales bins and fence to exit climate hustings
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No great escape: Tory scales bins and fence to exit climate hustings

It is a common dilemma for any hard-bitten politician faced with a hostile crowd: how best to make a sharp exit to avoid embarrassment?

Politics
Stephen Buranyi: There’s a new ‘climate denialism’ out there. Conservatives are very good at it
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Stephen Buranyi: There’s a new ‘climate denialism’ out there. Conservatives are very good at it

Boris Johnson's avoidance of the Channel 4 debate shows how it works: accept the science, but obstruct necessary change.

Solutions
Green party makes £100bn-a-year net zero carbon pledge to voters
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Green party makes £100bn-a-year net zero carbon pledge to voters

Tackling the climate emergency forms the centrepiece of the Green party's appeal to voters, with an eye-catching proposal to spend £100bn a year - more than any other party - on a transformation of the economy to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2030.

Politics
How do the parties propose to tackle the climate crisis?
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How do the parties propose to tackle the climate crisis?

Election contenders have been setting out plans to win over voters concerned about the environment.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Trump plan would close dozens of mine safety offices, leaving coal towns exposed

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Coal-fired electricity spikes as gas prices rise, pushing up U.S. emissions

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New wildfire hazard maps expand zones for millions of Californians

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An open letter from EPA staff to the American public

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Climate scientist Michael Mann speaks at a podium with a porjection of the famous hockey Stick climate graph.

A climate scientist’s legal win just got flipped on its head

CLIMATE
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Young climate lawsuit ends after a decade without Supreme Court review

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NIH shuts down future research into climate change health impacts