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Carbon capture: A critical tool in the climate restoration toolbox
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From pollution to policing, this Asian-American group is expanding environmental justice in the Bay Area
"Environmental justice is about who we can call community, and what access we have to the environment around us.”
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“Death by a thousand cuts”: How Congress continues to whittle away at a critical environmental policy
A bipartisan bill aims to rollback parts of the landmark National Environmental Policy Act.
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The art of repeal: illustrating Trump’s toxic legacy — and Biden’s daunting task ahead
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The EPA cut back enforcement during COVID. These researchers are assessing the damage.
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6 reasons 2020 wasn’t as bad for climate change as you thought
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We’re running out of time to flatten the curve — for climate change
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Dying oil companies’ parting gift: millions in cleanup costs
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How we calculated the size of the Southwest’s abandoned oil well problem
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This Louisiana neighborhood is retreating in the face of climate change
The best way to build back better might be to build elsewhere.
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Beleaguered by disaster damages, the U.S. may finally start spending on resilience
The Biden administration aims to direct billions to pre-disaster planning. But is it enough?
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Should I go into debt to buy an electric vehicle?
Whose responsibility is it to move the EV market?
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G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy
In spite of green rhetoric, money has piled into aviation and car industries since the start of pandemic, report finds.
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Biden’s only climate plan is in jeopardy
Congress is pulling apart the president's mini-Green New Deal.
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Carbon capture: A critical tool in the climate restoration toolbox
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In the last episode of Temperature Check before the new year, host Andrew Simon and returning co-host Justin Worland look back on the biggest climate stories of 2020 and look ahead to what’s in store for the holiday season.
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