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Trump’s Order Targeting State Climate Laws Is Probably Unconstitutional

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

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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Is the Once-Extinct Dire Wolf Really Back, or Did Some of the Reporting Go Too Far?

This story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Amid a supremely chaotic news environment—dominated by Trump’s deportations, Trump’s funding cuts and layoffs, Trump’s tariffs, and, of course, the tumultuous stock market the tariffs produced—one carefully calibrated science story managed to break through the […]


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Bad News for Man’s Best Friend: Dogs Are Environmental Villains

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dogs have “extensive and multifarious” environmental impacts, disturbing wildlife, polluting waterways and contributing to carbon emissions, new research has found. An Australian review of existing studies has argued that “the environmental impact of owned dogs is far greater, more […]


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

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

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

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.

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

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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Trump’s Bureau of Land Management Pick Is a Pit Bull for the Fossil Fuel Industry

This story was originally published by Public Domain, a Substack publication to which you can subscribe here. When rancher Ammon Bundy and his armed posse stormed into Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January 2016 in a failed attempt to seize public land for themselves, Kathleen Sgamma, then the vice president of the Western Energy Alliance, issued a brief […]


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