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Report: Texas oil and gas regulators are awash in fossil fuel money
Conflicts of interest plague the Texas Railroad Commission, a powerful agency charged with environmental protection in Lone Star oilfields.
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States, tribes, and NGOs hold polluters accountable in a ‘tidal wave’ of greenwashing lawsuits
A new complaint from the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe adds to the list, alleging Seattle’s “green” hydropower kills fish.
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EPA might finally regulate the plastic industry’s favorite kind of ‘recycling’
A new rule could make it harder to turn plastic into oil and gas to be burned.
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The Permian Basin is ground zero for a billion-dollar surge of zombie oil wells
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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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We broke down the last decade of climate change in 7 charts
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Dying oil companies’ parting gift: millions in cleanup costs
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6 reasons 2020 wasn’t as bad for climate change as you thought
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The Climate Fiction Issue: How fiction can change our reality
The Climate Fiction Issue
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‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ and the world we cannot escape
There is something both very old and refreshingly new about Anthony Doerr’s epic tale of the climate crisis.
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![Employees from a Radian Generation's operations and maintenance team change out a faulty solar inverter along a row of solar panels December 4, 2017 in Oxford, Massachusetts. The 16.5 megawatt solar array, on what was once the largest pig farm in the northeast, is owned and operated by BlueWave Solar which feeds the generated electricity to homes and small businesses and to the Fay School and Phillips Academy Andover private schools.]()
![Employees from a Radian Generation's operations and maintenance team change out a faulty solar inverter along a row of solar panels December 4, 2017 in Oxford, Massachusetts. The 16.5 megawatt solar array, on what was once the largest pig farm in the northeast, is owned and operated by BlueWave Solar which feeds the generated electricity to homes and small businesses and to the Fay School and Phillips Academy Andover private schools.]()
Not even a pandemic can stop solar’s epic growth
Lead by Texas and the Southeast, the U.S. added a record amount of solar power in 2020.
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![Microsoft logo with a screwdriver and pliers on top of it]()
Bowing to investors, Microsoft will make its devices easier to fix
In a first-of-its-kind agreement, the company has committed to increasing access to spare parts and repair documents.
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Cargo-ship congestion is bringing more dirty air to Southern California
Those supply-chain problems you’ve heard about? They have consequences for public health.
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US corporations talk green but are helping derail major climate bill
Apple and Amazon are among dozens of companies whose lobbying groups are fighting to stop the Democrats’ reconciliation package.
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The hazy link between smoke and climate change
Welcome to the 8th edition of the Burning Issue. Today is Wednesday, October 6. Zoya here. The battle to save California’s giant Sequoia trees is back on as fires in the Sierra Nevadas ramped up again in recent days. At least 44 of them have been incinerated by the Windy Fire in Sequoia National Forest. […]
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The Colorado River is drying up. Here’s how that affects Indigenous water rights
"The basin is free-riding off of undeveloped tribal water rights."
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![Texas Railroad Commission logo on top of scales with Earth and money on each side, Texas in background]()
![Texas Railroad Commission logo on top of scales with Earth and money on each side, Texas in background]()
Report: Texas oil and gas regulators are awash in fossil fuel money
Conflicts of interest plague the Texas Railroad Commission, a powerful agency charged with environmental protection in Lone Star oilfields.
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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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