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Trump Just Fast-Tracked Deep Sea Mining, Despite Global Opposition

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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 wants federal agencies to fast-track applications for deep-sea mining in an effort to make the United States a global leader in the nascent industry.  Trump issued an executive order Thursday declaring that US policy includes “creating a […]

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China’s Xi Prepares to Eat America’s Lunch as Trump Cedes Leadership on Clean Energy

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. China will continue to push forward on the climate crisis, Xi Jinping has said while appearing to criticize the “protectionism” of Donald Trump’s tariff policies. The Chinese president was attending a closed-door virtual meeting with the UN secretary general, António Guterres, Brazil’s president, Luiz […]

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CovertAction Bulletin – Earth Day: War and Climate Change Threaten the Planet

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April 20th marked the fifteenth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the largest oil spill in U.S. history, which killed 11 workers and spilled 134 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. For those who rely on fishing and relate…

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Trump May Loathe Wind Energy, But This Red State Loves It

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you drive across Iowa, you’ll probably notice two things aside from the many farms: Trump signs and wind turbines. Iowa is Trump country. While the state was once considered politically purple, it decisively supported President Donald Trump in 2016, in 2020, and […]

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Climate Groups Get a Reprieve From Trump’s Rumored Earth Day Massacre

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As Americans celebrated Earth Day on Tuesday, the nonprofit world was left anxiously wondering, “Will they or won’t they?” For the past week, rumors have abounded that the Trump administration would issue an Earth Day order seeking to revoke the IRS tax-exempt status of climate focused groups and foundations.  It could still happen, and if […]

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“Americans Will Be Less Safe”: An Author of the Country’s Biggest Climate Report Reflects on Its Gutting

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The Trump administration is coming for the National Climate Assessment. Officials reportedly cut funding for the federal program behind the congressionally mandated report, which describes how climate change impacts everything from agriculture and transportation to human health and economics in the United States. Under the Global Change Research Act of 1990, researchers issue a new […]

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The Economic Case for Preserving America’s Wetlands

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Nearly 30 years ago, in September 1996, Hurricane Fran swept through North Carolina. It was the most expensive natural disaster in state history—causing an estimated $10 billion in damage in today’s dollars and killing 37 people across the region. Raleigh took a direct hit, with the storm toppling thousands of trees and dumping nearly 9 […]

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Another Round of Anti-Trump Protests Slated for Earth Day

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Hundreds of marches, pickets, and cleanup events are taking place across the US in the run-up to Earth Day on Tuesday, as environmental and climate groups step up resistance to the Trump administration’s authoritarianism and its “war on the planet.” A […]

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Anatomy of an Extinction

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Late in September, as Hurricane Helene struck the Southeast, Wally Smith immediately thought of the salamanders. Of course, he fretted over the safety of his parents, brother, and extended family in the path of the storm in the north Georgia mountains, but he couldn’t help but worry about the amphibians in harm’s way, too. As […]

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Trump Nixing Conservation Rule in Favor of Drilling and Mining on Federal Lands

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This story was originally published on the substack Public Domain to which you can subscribe here. At an all-hands meeting of Interior Department employees on April 9, Secretary Doug Burgum stressed that managing and protecting federal public lands “must be held in balance.” “It says in the mission statement the job of Interior is to ‘manage and protect,’” he said. “It doesn’t […]

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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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