Molly Taft is a freelance writer based in New York, and a former staff writer at Nexus Media News. Her work has appeared in outlets such as Vice, The Intercept, The Outline, HuffPost, Quartz, Fast Company, Popular Science, Teen Vogue, CityLab, and Buzzfeed.
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When President Trump signed his executive order targeting Obama-era climate policies in March, he made sure to get the optics right. “You’re going back to work,” he promised the coal miners surrounding
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