Climate Desk – Page 7 – The USA Potato

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

Artis Curiskis and Melissa Lewis / 11/04/2025

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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Trump’s Bureau of Land Management Pick Bails Out Over January 6 Condemnation

Chris D’Angelo, Jimmy Tobias, and Roque Planas / 10/04/2025

This story was originally published on the Substack Public Domain, to which you can subscribe here. Kathleen Sgamma, a longtime oil and gas activist, withdrew her nomination to lead the federal Bureau of Land Management hours before her confirmation hearing Thursday. The move comes two days after a watchdog group surfaced private comments in which Sgamma condemned President Donald Trump’s […]

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Some States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Now Industry Is Fighting Back.

Molly Taft / 10/04/2025

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2021, James Kenney and his husband were at a big box store buying a piece of furniture when the sales associate asked if they’d like to add fabric protectant. Kenney, the cabinet secretary of New Mexico’s Environment Department, asked to see […]

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

Jillian Ambrose / 09/04/2025

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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