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BREAKING: Exxon Shareholders Approve Climate Resolution: 62% Call for Disclosure in Landmark Vote insideclimatenews.org/news/3… by @mlavelles
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The Native American protest agst the Dakota Access pipeline has gone national. insideclimatenews.org/news/2… by @lisalsong
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Pope Francis warns history will judge world leaders who do not act as he blasted climate change skeptics bbc.com/news/world-us-canada… @BBCWorld
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The current melt rate in Greenland is what's projected for around the year 2070 as global warming worsens — using the most pessimistic model, @xavierfettweis said.
That melting has global implications for sea level rise.
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Emerging research shows species conservation has a positive impact on lowering CO2 levels in the atmosphere. bit.ly/2aXVjkm
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We are enormously grateful and honored for this generous grant from the @GoldenGlobes. Thank you so much for your support of our climate and environmental journalism! #GoldenGlobes insideclimatenews.org/news/0…
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Gov. Jerry Brown warns Trump that California won't back down on climate change fw.to/Eu0AEJH
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As the price of renewable energy drops, more cities around the world are cutting the cord with fossil fuel-based electricity. bit.ly/2GN7Bf1
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The next freshman Congress class will have a striking number of environmental crusaders. Here are 5 election winners to watch for climate action:
- @Ocasio2018 NY-14
- @SeanCasten IL-6
- @RashidaTlaib MI-13
- @MikeLevinCA CA-49
- @vgescobar TX-16
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At CNN's climate town hall, Sen. Kamala Harris, a former California attorney general, said she had sued Exxon. That would have been a big deal if the state AG had sued, but our fact check revealed it never happened.
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A new wind turbine rises every 2.4 hours in U.S. in industry's strongest 1st quarter in 8 years, @mckennapr reports insideclimatenews.org/news/0…
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Pope Francis has convened an unprecedented meeting in Rome on the fate of the Amazon forests and the world's moral obligation to protect them. Brazil's president isn't happy about it.
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Human-caused climate change is making extreme heat and rainfall more likely, new research shows. It's something scientists have been warning about for nearly 30 years.
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The last serious climate legislation considered in Congress was co-sponsored by @SenMarkey. He's now collaborating with @AOC on a plan for a Green New Deal, which she has pledged will be far more ambitious. bit.ly/2AqmXFK
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Between 1985 and 2015, explosives and mining equipment chewed up more than 1,100 square miles in pursuit of coal buried in the mountains in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. bit.ly/2mJxX9O
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The climate lawsuit filed by 21 kids, challenging the federal govt to slow climate change has a new defendant: Trump insideclimatenews.org/news/0…
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The U.S. Supreme Court just declined to block a state investigation into whether Exxon misled the public and investors about climate change.
It clears the way for Massachusetts AG Maura Healey to force the oil giant to turn over decades of documents.
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Ecuador’s Constitutional Court issued another landmark rights of nature ruling, this time recognizing that wild animal’s have the rights to exist and to be free from disproportionate cruelty, fear and distress.
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"What we are increasingly seeing is that we have been on the conservative side in estimating sea level rise." bit.ly/2yPSJtF
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Judge cites environmental justice in calling for #DAPL review. Tho he didn't shut it down, he didn't rule that out. insideclimatenews.org/news/1…
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“Cement emissions have grown faster than most other carbon sources.” The cement sector's carbon footprint has doubled since 2002, putting it far above highly-scrutinized industries like aviation. So, why aren't more people talking about it?
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Wind power capacity has tripled across the United States in just the last decade as prices have plunged and the technology has become more muscular. bit.ly/2wtZukj
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Climate scientist James Hansen released a new study tracking the acceleration of global warming, and he says the world has not been adequately warned about the rapidly growing risks of extreme climate impacts.
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A federal court has ruled against a U.S. Interior Department plan to open more than 15 million acres of public land and mineral rights to fossil fuel extraction. bit.ly/2Gx9AaQ
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"The ocean is screaming": A mass die-off of Alaska's colorful puffins is raising new fears about the Arctic's warming climate.
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Veterans of Washington's past climate battles say the appeal of the Green New Deal and the determination of its young advocates could be the jump-start the climate policy debate needs. bit.ly/2AqmXFK
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When Hurricane Maria shattered Puerto Rico’s power grid in 2017, the U.S. territory faced a choice: rebuild a long-troubled grid, powered by diesel fuel or build a more resilient grid powered by clean energy. This week, Puerto Rico chose clean energy.bit.ly/2FGtT4C
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The oceans hold the story of a planet warming as fossil fuels are burned. Here is what scientists have discovered, in four charts.
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It's been 30 years since NASA scientist James Hansen told a Senate committee: "The greenhouse effect has been detected and is changing our climate now." bit.ly/2lwXmCU via @NewYorker @ElizKolbert
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1/ Why didn't America act on climate change way back when?
You've read the historical reconstruction in the @NYTmag of the 1980s, the decade when the science was becoming clearer and there was some bipartisan political momentum to act.
There's more to this story.
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Global warming is transforming the Arctic, and the changes have rippled so widely that the entire biophysical system is shifting toward an "unprecedented state," an international team of researchers concludes in a just-released study. bit.ly/2OX7NOn
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Scientists have found new evidence that the Atlantic Ocean's circulation has slowed by about 15 percent since the middle of the last century. If it continues to slow, that could have profound consequences. Here's what global warming has to do with it.
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10 Senators Call for Investigation into EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's Move to Push Independent Scientists Off Advisory Boards bit.ly/2iJbY0t
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"When it comes to the Arctic heat waves, the wildfires, am I surprised? No — this was long predicted. Am I worried? Yes," said @PennState climate scientist @MichaelEMann.
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A peer-reviewed paper proposes that the top 21 polluting companies pay $5.4 trillion over 26 years to compensate for climate damages.
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A federal court has ruled against a U.S. Interior Department plan to open more than 15 million acres of public land and mineral rights to fossil fuel extraction. bit.ly/2Gx9AaQ
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In the trial against Exxon this week, New York’s attorney general will argue the company “erected a Potemkin village to create the illusion that it had fully considered the risks of future climate change regulation.”
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In some parts of the U.S., the amount of freshwater used for fracking is reaching or exceeding water use by people, agriculture and other industries combined.
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If the Trump admin wants to silence climate change info produced by the fed govt, it'll be no small task. Here's why insideclimatenews.org/news/2…
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When ExxonMobil stands trial next week in a securities fraud case about climate risks, a focus will be on Canada’s tar sands, one of the most carbon-polluting sources of oil on the planet, where Exxon is a top producer.
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"If you see science being ignored or compromised, speak up," -draft of Sec Sally Jewell speech to @theAGU conference reuters.com/article/us-usa-c…
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Scott Pruitt abandoned env protections in favor of industries that funded his political campaigns, legal experts say insideclimatenews.org/news/2…
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"Any elementary school kid can tell you the value of trees, but by the time we are adults, it's not something we see or acknowledge." bit.ly/2wtqGj0
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Anchorage hit 90°F. Seals and other animals are unexpectedly dying. And the sea ice is long gone from the coastline. Welcome to summer in Alaska in the Anthropocene.
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There's growing evidence that "a warming atmosphere, with more moisture and turbulent energy, favors increasingly large outbreaks of tornadoes," @MichaelEMann tells @insideclimate.
Here's what else scientists are saying about tornadoes & climate change
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott has fallen behind his opponent in a race for a Senate seat, polls show. One reason cited for the dip: his record on environment. More from @WashingtonPost:
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Russia has declared a state of emergency in five Siberian regions after wildfires engulfed an area of forest almost the size of Belgium amid record high temperatures as a result of climate change.
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The Green New Deal's goal is ambitious, easy to understand, and in line with science: 100 percent of electricity from renewable sources within 10 years. Advocates think that's the key to rallying the public around action on climate change. bit.ly/2AqmXFK
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Al Gore: There’s a ‘realistic chance’ that Trump won’t bail on the Paris climate agreement wapo.st/2n7ZiEJ
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"We can now say with certainty that permafrost is warming at the global scale." bit.ly/2TQWzMn
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"There is no question now that we're seeing melt from both Greenland and West Antarctica that is far ahead of schedule relative to what most models previously predicted," said @penn_state climate scientist @MichaelEMann.
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In Chicago, its two electric buses save the city $24,000 a year in fuel costs and $110,000 a year in estimated health costs. It’s one of the reasons more and more U.S. transit agencies are ditching their dirtier diesel buses for electric ones.
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Q&A with the former Marine leading veterans to DAPL protest: 'If they want to shoot at 2,000 veterans...so be it.' insideclimatenews.org/news/2…
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The loss of sea ice may be weakening the polar vortex, allowing cold blasts to dip south from the Arctic, across North America bit.ly/2fukiQo
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Reaganite George Shultz: “People who say the climate isn’t changing are in the process of getting mugged by reality" latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la…
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Economist @JosephEStiglitz writes of climate change: "There is a point at which, once this harm occurs, it cannot be undone at any reasonable cost ... Based on the best available science, our country is close to approaching that point." bit.ly/2m8RFLS
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Trump's EPA acknowledges its proposal would result in greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1.8 million additional passenger vehicles per year. But it says the savings for oil and gas companies makes it worth it.
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A new study links the buildup of greenhouse gas emissions to more frequent heat waves, floods and droughts in the Northern Hemisphere.
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3 years ago, Freddie Mac warned rising seas could undermine mortgages.
2 years ago, Moody's warned climate change could affect local gov't credit ratings.
Now, a study says coastal flooding has eroded billions in real estate value. bit.ly/2XtZyNt
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The pandemic made the water security crisis facing many Native Americans visible to outsiders, even though access to clean water has been putting Indigenous people at risk for decades. A new report offers solutions.
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Govs. Scott Walker, Bruce Rauner and Rick Snyder are out, and their replacements are wasting no time in changing their states approaches to climate and clean energy.
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The Arctic's frozen permafrost holds some 15 million gallons of mercury.
As the permafrost melts, the powerful neurotoxin will be released into the environment. bit.ly/2E7Xpgv
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"When it comes to the Arctic heat waves, the wildfires, am I surprised? No — this was long predicted. Am I worried? Yes," said @PennState climate scientist @MichaelEMann.
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"When it comes to the Arctic heat waves, the wildfires, am I surprised? No — this was long predicted. Am I worried? Yes," said @PennState climate scientist @MichaelEMann.
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#HurricanePatricia, the strongest storm of its kind recorded in W. Hemisphere. is expected to make landfall today. nyti.ms/1PL881N
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"The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe is fully prepared to support any of its tribal members in any of their efforts to resist the pipeline." -Remi Bald Eagle bit.ly/2NbtA2u
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The polar vortex is an area of low pressure and cold air over the polar regions. When winds that keep colder air over the Arctic become less stable, cold air can dip farther south.
"It's basically extreme weather when you get that loopy jetstream." bit.ly/2lhQbhs
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Instead of holding Senate hearings on @AOC and @EdMarkey's Green New Deal resolution, Mitch McConnell has engineered a procedural vote today on his own version of the measure to try to kill the plan in its infancy. bit.ly/2OpnEF4
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Inside this week’s Warming Trends:
- witness climate change in a timelapse
- the monarch butterfly migration—by bicycle
- historical clues hidden in bat poop
- the rich culture and deep familial bonds of whale societies
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Lawmakers from 9 states just announced they're introducing legislation to try to block oil and gas drilling off their coasts: Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon and Rhode Island.
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Are electric vehicles just as polluting as gasoline ones? Do solar panels only last 10 years? Do solar and wind energy components come with a carbon footprint as large as fossil fuels? Here are six things Michael Moore's new documentary got wrong.
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When @KamalaHarris and @AOC introduced climate "equity" legislation on Thursday, activists saw it as a hopeful sign of Democratic unity less than three months before a hugely consequential election with both the White House and the Senate up for grabs.
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"I believe this is a concerted effort, likely by bad state actors and fossil fuel interests, to create disinformation, discord and division as we approach the all-important UN Summit and children's youth event," said climate scientist @MichaelEMann.
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This grant will help support our investigative reporting, expand our National Environment Reporting Network, and provide scholarships for our High School Institute for Environmental Journalism. Thank you @GoldenGlobes! insideclimatenews.org/news/0…
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The Amazon is the most biodiverse environment in the world and its preservation is critical for controlling climate change. But its destruction hasn’t stopped—and has gotten worse under Brazil’s current president. Some call that ecocide.
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Scientists have been warning about the effects of climate change in the Mount Everest region for awhile.
A major assessment issued earlier this year warned the Himalayan glaciers are on pace for a catastrophic meltdown this century.
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At his conf. hearing, EPA pick Pruitt said he took steps to protect the enviro. in OK. Legal experts beg to differ. insideclimatenews.org/news/2…
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A former Exxon scientist testified in Congress today about the oil giant's early climate change research and the company's shift to denial: Exxon executives "deliberately created doubt when their internal research confirmed how serious a threat it was."
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Scott Pruitt is gone, but the EPA under Andrew Wheeler is moving forward in 2019 with his plan to limit the use of science in policymaking.
The scientific and academic communities argue the proposal would hobble EPA and wreak havoc on research. bit.ly/2PcvhhQ
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A number of emails show U.S. Department of Justice attorneys coordinating with lawyers for the fossil fuel industry to stymie lawsuits the companies faced regarding their role in climate change.
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Ireland—a nation synonymous with its abundant, verdant landscapes—is considering a nationwide referendum on the rights of nature and the human right to a healthy environment.
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While evangelical Christians remain a key voting block for President Trump, some are breaking rank. “He's a very adamant denier of climate change.” said Emily Robertson, a young evangelical from Tennessee. “For me, I intend to vote for Joe Biden.”
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James Hansen Says Countries Can Fight Climate Change by Suing Polluters bit.ly/2zmPlt9 via @NatGeo
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New studies are warning that drought and heat waves will cause massive die-offs, killing most trees alive today if global warming continues at its present pace—and the forests that don’t die will fundamentally change.
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This 14-year-old in the heart of oil country is battling climate change, even if it costs her friends. insideclimatenews.org/news/1…
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Beneath the ocean’s surface, glaciers may be melting 10 to 100 times faster than previously believed, new research shows. So, what does that mean for sea level rise?
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Ecuador’s top court has ruled in a first of its kind case applying the “rights of nature” to individual animals. Wild animals possess legal rights and the power to enforce those rights, the court said.
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"When you have two 500-year floods within two years of each other, it's pretty certain it's not a 500-year flood.” – @NC_Governor on Florence
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Corporate America isn't backing Trump on climate. axios.com/corporate-america-…
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"There is no question now that we're seeing melt from both Greenland and West Antarctica that is far ahead of schedule relative to what most models previously predicted," said @penn_state climate scientist @MichaelEMann.
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"Exxon accurately predicted that by this year, 2019, the Earth would hit a carbon dioxide concentration of 415 parts per million … is that correct?” @AOC asked a former Exxon scientist who testified in Congress this week. Here's what happened:
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Where did the American anomaly of widespread climate denial come from? For almost 30 years, the Farm Bureau has worked closely with the fossil fuel sector to defeat climate policies and sow doubt among farmers. It succeeded. bit.ly/2A9yWY2
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"You cannot have a thriving economy if you don't have a healthy environment." -Bush's EPA chief on Trump's budget bit.ly/2rmyx1P
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The Amazon is the most biodiverse environment in the world and its preservation is critical for controlling climate change. But its destruction hasn’t stopped—and has gotten worse under Brazil’s current president. Some call that ecocide.
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“It literally felt like the world was on fire,” said climate scientist @MichaelEMann. “The unprecedented extreme weather events we saw once again that were undoubtedly fueled by human-caused planetary warming. The year 2019 really drove that home.”
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Georgia’s second runoff race could determine the fate of a national climate policy. Sen. Kelly Loeffler has said little about climate change, while her challenger, Rev. Rafael Warnock, has included climate and environmental justice in his platform.
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They’re easy to overlook, and often hard to find, but urban trees are every bit as important to cities as water, sewer and transportation systems. bit.ly/2wtqGj0
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Peabody, Arch, Cloud Peak and now Murray Energy. The country’s four largest coal producers have all filed for bankruptcy since 2016.
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Taking aim at the United States and an “irresponsible lifestyle” with some of the world’s highest carbon emissions per capita, Pope Francis on Wednesday doubled down on his earlier call for urgent action to tackle climate change.
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In what appears to be an industry first, Amazon workers who received stock grants are using their power as shareholders to push the company to release a plan addressing climate change, @NYTimes reports.
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