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How the Texas Legislature could change the state’s power grid this session
Most Texans will likely have higher charges on their power bills for years to come to cover gas utilities’, electric…
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The Citizen Startup – Why Investors Are Becoming More Interested In ESG Measures.
Antoine Baschiera, Director General, Early Metrics Early Metrics As a writer who focuses largely on the world of fast-growth, tech-driven…
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Change BC Fracking or Expect Damaging Earthquakes: Report | The Tyee
Since 2005, British Columbia’s experiment with hydraulic fracturing of gas wells has changed the geology of the province’s northeast. It…
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Climate Change Stands to Displace 2 Billion People Worldwide. These Innovative Solutions Could Help Reduce That Number.
It’s time for legacy institutions to do their part and implement more environmentally friendly practices. Grow Your Business, Not Your…
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Resolution creating committee to investigate AltEn won’t get a hearing this year
After being introduced, LR159 went to the Legislature’s Referencing Committee, which assigns it to a committee based upon subject matter,…
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Nature Can Save Humanity From Climate Doom—but Not On Its Own
Here’s what not to do, says Girardin: Clear forests and plant new trees so corporations can offset their carbon emissions.…
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This Evolutionary Gift May Protect Coral From Climate Change
To see what defenses coral have already evolved against warmer waters, Meibom and his colleagues wanted to learn just how…
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EU leaders to debate who will pay for green transition
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders meet on Tuesday to debate how to split the efforts and costs of the…
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Exxon to add two new directors in battle over company’s future
By Jennifer Hiller, Svea Herbst-Bayliss HOUSTON/BOSTON (Reuters) -Exxon Mobil said on Monday it would appoint two new board members, days…
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Madison mayor pledges better communication on PFAS, resists call for task force, health study
The airport will also continue using an experimental technology that the DNR previously said had failed to keep PFAS out…
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Extreme weather displaces record numbers of people as temperatures rise | DW | 20.05.2021
Storms, floods, wildfires and droughts drove more than 30 million people from their homes last year, as rising temperatures wrought…
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This Mayan Beekeeper Formed a Swarm of Environmentalists to Combat the Growth of Genetically Modified Plants in Her Native Mexico
When Leydy Pech saw what was happening to the agricultural balance and the beekeeping community, she decided to take a…
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Kimberly Nicholas interview: How to be human in a warming world
To have any hope of tackling climate change, we must alter many aspects of society, says sustainability researcher Kimberly Nicholas…
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San Diego County Supervisors Add Environmental Justice Office
Photo by Erik Anderson Above: Ship unloading goods at a port facility in National City on Mar. 29, 2021. San…
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A Zombie-Fire Outbreak May Be Growing in Alaska and Canada
Each winter, as snow blankets Alaska and northern Canada, the wildfires of the summer extinguish, and calm prevails—at least on…
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The Particular Psychology of Destroying a Planet
Subscribers to The Climate Crisis newsletter received this piece in their in-boxes. Sign up to receive future installments. Two weeks…
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The Brutal Legal Odyssey of Jessica Ernst Comes to an End | The Tyee
After 14 years of battling Alberta regulators and the fracking industry over a water well contaminated with methane and chemicals,…
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The International Energy Agency Issues a Landmark Statement About Fossil Fuels
The crucial turning points of the climate era can be found in a series of sentences, some of them pretty…
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Opinion: Scientists now believe Antarctica is headed for a climate-change tipping point by 2060
While U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken draws attention to climate change in the Arctic at meetings with other national officials this…
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Legislators introduce bill to ban new waste incineration facilities
Sponsors oppose medical waste facility proposed on East Greenwich-West Warwick border STATEHOUSE – Sen. Bridget Valverde and Rep. Justine Caldwell…
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Mexico City Could Sink Up to 65 Feet
When Darío Solano‐Rojas moved from his hometown of Cuernavaca to Mexico City to study at the National Autonomous University of…
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A giant levitating tap spewing garbage: How a Montreal artist is raising awareness of plastic pollution
TORONTO — An artist in Montreal is on a mission, in a big way, to raise awareness about plastic pollution.…
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UK water watchdog plans 2.8 billion pound backing for green projects
(Reuters) – Britain’s water regulator set out a 2.8 billion pound ($3.95 billion) green investment plan on Monday as it…
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How to register for the Rain Harvest program in Mexico City?
This initiative wants to increase the water supply in those communities that suffer from the lack of it in CDMX.…
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American Company Launches Eco-Friendly Organic Soils Across The US
Peat-free soil, a new addition to Back to the Roots’ collection. Back To The Roots Forests are the focus these…
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The nitrogen emergency: How to fix our forgotten environmental crisis
Nitrogen pollution poisons our water and clogs our air – and it exacerbates other environmental problems. But if we organise…
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Climate change ‘twisted everything around’ for Sahtu breakup
Communities in the Sahtu are preparing themselves for a potentially hazardous flooding season as the Mackenzie River starts to break…
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AI Shows ExxonMobil Downplayed Its Role in Climate Change
Between 1977 and 2014, 80 percent of ExxonMobil’s internal research supported the idea that human activity was a contributor to…
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Mine spill of 2014 continues to devastate Sonoran communities years later
In 2014, workers looked for contaminated silt to remove with shovels and wheelbarrows in an arroyo bed near Bacanuchi, Sonora,…
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8 of the Best Upcycled Snacks You Can Buy
Food waste is a huge problem worldwide, which is one reason why snacks made of upcycled food are becoming more…
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Study unearths new assessment of arsenic in Yellowknife soil
Current guidelines for the remediation of contaminated NWT sites are based in part on a five-fold overestimation of naturally occurring…
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It’s Time to Kick Gas
Subscribers to The Climate Crisis newsletter received this piece in their in-boxes. Sign up to receive future installments. We’re used…
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Burlington’s PCB Problem Could Impact Other Schools Across Vermont
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How The Big Melt Will Change Life for People and Nature | The Tyee
[Editor’s note: To read the first instalment of The Big Melt, a special Tyee series, go here.] When William Glendale…
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‘Water Ways’ series on Dutch engineering solutions for rising seas honored with Headliner Award
A collaborative project by The Times-Picayune | The Advocate, WWNO-FM and Climate Central that explored Dutch solutions for dealing with…
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Alliance of Texas environmental, oil interests block bill that would have given nuclear waste company a financial break
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.…
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Global temperatures are cooler in 2021 than other recent years
With a moderate La Niña event in the tropical Pacific Ocean, global temperatures in 2021 are running decidedly cooler when…
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Faulty Weather Forecasts Are a Climate Crisis Disaster
Predicting the weather can be a frustratingly imprecise science. The weather app on your phone is pretty good at forecasting…
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Ottawa’s Giant Mine response ‘falls short,’ says YKDFN
Advertisement. The federal government says it is committed to “righting historical wrongs” and working with the Yellowknives Dene in response…
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China says most of rocket in uncontrolled re-entry burned as it hurtled toward Earth
BEIJING (AP) — China’s space agency said a core segment of its biggest rocket re-entered Earth’s atmosphere above the Maldives…
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This LA Company Wants To Be The First Climate Positive Grocer
Thrive Market aims to be the first climate first grocery store, which includes rethinking its … [+] packaging use. Thrive…
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New EPA coolant rule is a no-brainer for addressing the climate crisis
The EPA’s new rule to phase down the manufacturing and use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) — the coolants used in air…
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How Weird, Bouncy Cell Signals Can Help Track Wildfire Smoke
As massive bushfires raged across eastern Australia in January 2020, a deadly haze settled over Melbourne, an obvious signal for…
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Old-Growth Forest Logging Approvals Are Soaring in BC | The Tyee
New mapping released today by the Wilderness Committee indicates the province approved significantly more old-growth logging over the past 12…
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Seed the North: Fighting Climate Change, One Sprout at a Time | The Tyee
[Editor’s note: This is the latest in a year-long occasional series of articles produced by InvestigateWest in partnership with The Tyee…
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Xiye Bastida, the Mexican ecologist who claimed world leaders
An ally of Greta Thunberg, Xiye questioned world governments for perpetuating and defending the harmful systems of colonialism and oppression.…
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Texas House gives early approval to bill that would punish Wall Street for fossil fuel disinvestments
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Video games get serious about climate change | DW | 03.05.2021
Dressed in a futuristic wetsuit that enables her to stay submerged for hours, diver and scientist Mirai is trying to…
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Why Not Turn Airports Into Giant Solar Farms?
The next time you’re staring out a plane window during takeoff or landing, give the airport a scan. You’ll see…
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Texas House advances plan to subsidize power plant weatherization
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