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In “Cancer Alley,” Black Communities Get All the pollution, But Few of the Jobs

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Residents of the mostly Black communities sandwiched between chemical plants along the lower Mississippi River have long said they get most of the pollution but few of the jobs produced by the region’s vast petrochemical industry.  A new study led by Tulane University […]

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Cement Is a Carbon Bomb, and Trump Just Made It Harder to Defuse

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This story was reported by Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action. Concrete built much of the modern world. It paves highways, shelters millions, and forms the foundations of countless buildings.  But cement, the crucial powder that serves as the binder in concrete, has become one of the planet’s biggest climate […]

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Trump’s Order Targeting State Climate Laws Is Probably Unconstitutional

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Donald Trump continued dismantling US climate policy this week when he directed the Justice Department to challenge state laws aimed at addressing the crisis—a campaign legal scholars called unconstitutional and climate activists said is sure to fail.  The president, who […]

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No, Canada’s So-called ‘No Pipelines Bill’ Didn’t Block These 16 Energy Projects

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U.S. President Donald Trump famously bragged on the campaign trail that he would end inflation and the war in Ukraine “on day one.” Simplistic claims sometimes sell, as seen by the fact that Kamala Harris is not occupying the Oval Office. Yet after less than four months of the chaotic Trump presidency, many American voters may wish they could build […]

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How 77 Tons of Radioactive Waste Ended Up in Brooklyn

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New York City’s second largest utility is being sued in federal court for the alleged inappropriate handling of at least 77 tons of radioactive waste at a 120-acre site located in Brooklyn, the city’s most populous borough. The radioactive waste, as well as other hazardous coal waste, is a leftover of a bygone era, more […]

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If Trump Doesn’t Fix This Blunder, “People Would Die in Their Homes”

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The summer of 2021 was brutal for residents of the Pacific Northwest. Cities across the region from Portland, Oregon, to Quillayute, Washington, broke temperature records by several degrees. In Washington, as the searing heat wave settled over the state, 125 people […]

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Climate Disinformation ‘Normalised’ on French TV and Radio, Report Finds

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Climate disinformation was routinely broadcast in news programmes across French TV and radio in the first three months of 2025, with 128 verified cases identified by an alliance of NGOs. Using AI to identify misleading narratives, which were then reviewed by fact-checkers, the alliance assessed programmes classed as “news” by the French broadcast regulator ARCOM […]

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From Farms to Data Centers: The Natural Gas Industry’s Newest Sales Pitch Comes to Virginia’s Pittsylvania County

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UPDATE (April 15, 2025 1:11PM PDT): Since this story was published, Balico has requested the withdrawal of its application to rezone about 760 acres of land to allow it to build a natural gas power plant and data centers. The company’s request to withdraw its rezoning request will be on the agenda for Tuesday night’s […]

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Group Behind ‘Autocratic’ Trump Agenda Working on Albanian Election

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The Heritage Foundation, the U.S. group that produced a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term, is trying to shape the upcoming Albanian election, DeSmog can report. The opposition candidate Sali Berisha of the Democratic Party has openly boasted of the group’s involvement in his campaign, posting pictures online of his meetings with Heritage Foundation […]

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How Does Climate Change Affect Our Brains? Trump’s NIH Just Cut Funding to Study It.

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On March 10, around 9:20 pm, Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, an environmental health professor at Columbia University, got the email she’d been dreading: The Trump administration cut funding for a new center she had been tasked with co-leading called “Climate and Health: Action and Research for Transformational Change.” CHART focused on researching the effects of climate change […]

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How GOP Lawmakers’ Districts Benefited from Biden’s Energy Spending

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President Trump’s overarching embrace of fossil fuels includes repealing a landmark Biden legislative achievement, the Inflation Reduction Act, which has helped support major investments in clean energy infrastructure.  While this will be the 55th time Republicans will have tried to roll back part or all of the $370 billion IRA, a Mother Jones analysis shows […]

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Solar Has Been the World’s Fastest Growing Power Source for 20 Years Running

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world used clean power sources to meet more than 40 percent of its electricity demand last year for the first time since the 1940s, figures show. A report by the energy thinktank Ember said the milestone was powered […]

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