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Water Shortages and Heat

Most of Brazil was on a heat alert this weekend, as heat indices reached as high as 140°F. An ocean away, South Sudan is closing its schools in advance of an extreme,

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Chocolate Prices Skyrocketing

Climate change is disrupting cocoa production, driving up global chocolate prices and threatening the mostly poor farmers who cultivate it — and it's about to get worse. Major cocoa processing facilities in

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Projects To Address Highway Harms

Projects The Department of Transportation will disburse $3.3 billion of funding for 133 projects in 40 states intended to address harm to historically excluded communities by past transportation investments, President Biden announced

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Loan Guarantee and Other Announcements

The Federal government will give tribal governments $120 million to address the impacts of climate change, the Department of the Interior announced Thursday. Indigenous peoples across what is now the United States

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First Big US Offshore Wind Farm Online

The first commercial-scale wind farm off the U.S. coast is officially open and sending electricity to New York's electrical grid, its developers announced Thursday. The 12 wind turbines that make up South

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Water Costs Strain Family Budgets

Utilities' efforts to update infrastructure and secure clean water supplies are pushing up the cost for households, and an increasing number of families are struggling to afford the basic necessity, the Los

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The Panama Canal Delayed by Drought

A severe drought is limiting the number of ships that can pass through the Panama Canal, disrupting shipping routes, delaying deliveries, and driving up the cost of crossing. Panama is experiencing one

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Europe Unprepared For Climate Change

Europe is unprepared for mounting climate risks, the first-ever climate risk assessment released by the European Environment Agency warned Monday. The continent faces more frequent, and more severe extreme weather, including wildfires,

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Heat Pumps For Apartments

Small, window-mounted heat pumps could bring massive energy savings — and quieter, individualized temperature control — to tenants and others living in multi-unit apartment and condo buildings with centralized heating, the AP

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Pipeline Could Boost AI

As the enormous energy demand of artificial intelligence continues to grow the new (again) owner of the beleaguered Mountain Valley Pipeline sees a business opportunity. EQT Corp. CEO Toby Rice said on

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Insurance Industry Targeted by Activists

The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Thursday it had reached an agreement with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners under which state insurance regulators will collect and share data about how climate

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Car Harm Won’t Be Solved By EVs

Even if every car in the world were an EV, it would not mitigate some of the most ruinous effects of car-centric infrastructure, a new analysis cautions. The analysis of roughly 400

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Climate Crisis Mentioned in SOTU

Though not the focus of his third official State of the Union address, President Biden touted his efforts to "save the planet from the climate crisis," promote clean energy, and highlighted contrasts

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Records ‘Pulverized’ Worldwide

Earth experienced its hottest February on record, breaking a monthly heat record for the ninth straight month, according to an analysis by the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service. A concurrent report released

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Scope 3 Cut From SEC Climate Rule

The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new rules on Wednesday requiring publicly traded companies to disclose financial risks to their investors caused by climate change and efforts to address the crisis. The

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Sea Ice is Even More Threatened

The low sea ice levels and high temperatures in Earth's latitudinal extremes in 2023 are a preview of the heated world to come, two new studies show. Research, published in the Bulletin

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Disinfo Implications for SCOTUS Cases

Two cases before the Supreme Court could have significant implications for climate disinformation on social media platforms, Inside Climate News reports. The laws were passed in Texas and Florida in response to

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Hearing Begins on PREPA Debt

A crucial hearing in federal court regarding Puerto Rico's struggling power company and its proposed debt restructuring began Monday. Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority holds $9 billion in debt and has struggled

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Extreme Weather Caps ‘Lost Winter’

Ten days of extreme weather across the country — including a heatwave in the central U.S., a massive blizzard in California, and (ongoing) wildfires in Texas — punctuated the beginning of meteorological

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Households Led By Women Hurt Worst

Women-led rural households are hurt worse by the impacts of climate change, a new UN report finds. Compared to male-headed households, families headed by women across 24 poor and middle-income countries lost

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Satellite To Monitor Methane

A satellite with the power to track methane pollution from oil and gas industry operations across wide areas will launch this afternoon from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The MethaneSAT project,

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Defend Environmental Defenders: UN Report

Laws designed to criminalize environmental protest and protect fossil fuel operations are proliferating globally, threatening basic human rights and democracy, Inside Climate News reports. A UN position paper published last week by

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Clean Energy Growth Doubled

Global climate pollution rose 1.1% in 2023, with dramatic gaps between cuts by wealthy economies and increases in many developing markets, the International Energy Agency said in its annual emissions report, Friday.

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AI Power Demand Threatens Grid

Increased electricity demand driven by the growth of artificial intelligence threatens to overwhelm supply, renewable or otherwise, the New York Times reports. The proliferation of electricity-hungry cloud computing data centers across the

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Highway Expansion Gets BIF Cash

The vast majority of funding disbursed under the 2021 infrastructure law has gone to car-dominant transportation at the expense of other less-dangerous, climate-friendly forms of transportation, a new analysis finds. “We’re seeing

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Unimpressive Green Climate Fund Showing

Global pledges intended to spur investment in developing countries for climate solutions and resilience fell short of their target this week, prompting criticism from nongovernmental groups about the powerful countries most responsible

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Wyoming Gives Up Federal Cash

Wyoming will pass up the chance to apply for roughly $5 million in federal money to plug certain kinds of oil and gas wells. The Inflation Reduction Act gives states around $350

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The Pope Has Strong Opinions:

Pope Francis has once again weighed in on climate change—this time condemning climate deniers and lambasting “irresponsible” Western lifestyles that contribute to carbon emissions. In a 7,000-word letter issued Wednesday—a format known

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NIMBYism Isn’t For Everyone

Most Americans are just fine with living near renewable energy projects, a new poll finds. A Washington Post-University of Maryland poll released Tuesday finds that 75% of Americans would be comfortable living

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Arizona Ends Lease With Saudi Farm

The state of Arizona will no longer allow a farm owned by a Saudi Arabian company to freely pump groundwater from beneath state land, Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs announced Tuesday. Fondomonte Arizona,

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Microplastics Are Literally Everywhere

It’s getting harder and harder to avoid plastics. In a study published in Environmental Chemistry Letters last month, scientists in Japan documented how they collected water from clouds at the top of

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NYC Revs Up Composting

New York City’s composting program is set to significantly expand this week, as 2.6 million people in Brooklyn now have a way to dispose of food scraps and yard waste after city

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