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Days after COP26, US pledge to cut aviation emissions gets rerouted
Biden’s EPA will keep a Trump-era emissions standard for airplanes — that doesn’t actually cut emissions.
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![President of the United States Joe Biden signs the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal, H.R. 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law at the White House in Washington, DC on November 15, 2021]()
![President of the United States Joe Biden signs the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal, H.R. 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law at the White House in Washington, DC on November 15, 2021]()
One surprising winner in Biden’s infrastructure bill: Biodiversity
Biden's infrastructure bill puts billions toward wildlife and ecosystems.
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![An electric vehicle charging station sign and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe flag]()
Midwest tribes awarded $6.6 million to build their own EV charging network
After years of battling pipelines, it's another way to fight back against fossil fuels.
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![A laborer works on a water line in California. Joe Biden’s Infrastructure bill is set to make environmental justice investments commonplace.]()
![A laborer works on a water line in California. Joe Biden’s Infrastructure bill is set to make environmental justice investments commonplace.]()
Here’s how the bipartisan infrastructure deal could promote environmental justice
According to the White House, the new law earmarks $240 billion for environmental justice projects — the largest such investment in U.S. history.
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Accountability
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In a first, the Justice Department will investigate whether Alabama’s sewage crisis violates civil rights
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Report: The renewable future is being built on exploitation, too
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Report: Climate misinformation on Facebook viewed 1.4 million times daily
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Banks with $130 trillion in assets pledge to fund climate action. Activists aren’t impressed.
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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
Solutions Lab
Fix combines creative storytelling with network-building and events
Meeting your neighbors is a climate solution
The Climate Fiction Issue
Imagine 2200 Short Stories
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![Great Kiva at Pueblo Bonito Ruin Chaco Culture National Historic Park New Mexico]()
Biden proposes 20-year drilling ban near sacred Indigenous site
The plan would stop all future drilling within 10 miles of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico.
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The progress (and failures) of COP26, in 3 charts
Gaps remain on emissions, finance, and fossil fuel production.
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![A high cliff-side road near the ocean shows signs of major breakage, with cracks coming right up the barrier of the road. Houses and powerlines are on the other side of the barrier on top of the cliff]()
Coastal Californians, prepare for the ocean to rise 10 feet by century’s end
Planners warned to start making infrastructure changes now
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![The leaders of COP26 sit behind a large table at the annual U.N. climate conference.]()
COP26 made real progress. It also isn’t enough.
The final agreement is the most significant global climate pact since the Paris agreement, but it’s far from perfect.
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Natural gas company goes to great lengths to avoid saying the word ‘pipeline’
Why call it a pipeline when you could call it "an infrastructure"?
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Here’s why your doctor might start asking you about air pollution
Of course, there’s only so much you can do to change the air you breathe.
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![A Black mother and her child stand together at the kitchen sink in Flint, Michigan]()
Flint water crisis victims reach $626 million settlement
The record breaking settlement is still just “a Band-Aid on a bullet wound,” residents say.
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At COP26, 7 countries initiate the beginning of the end of fossil fuels
Meet BOGA, the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance.
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Temperature Check
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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