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Sustainable banking is an important part of addressing climate change
Sustainable banks drove a record amount of clean energy investment last year.
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Aging fuel tanks near Pearl Harbor are leaking. Locals want the U.S. Navy to shut them down
Honolulu activists say "enough is enough"
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Wildfires are erasing Western forests. Climate change is making it permanent.
The evidence is clear: Forests are shifting to scrublands across large swaths of the Western U.S.
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Calling climate change a ‘crisis’ doesn’t do what you think
Getting people to act takes more than strong words, a new study says.
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Grist reports on topics like COP26, Politics, Energy, Equity, and how they intersect with climate. All topics.
Accountability
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After years of delays, Southern California’s new smog regulation promises to save lives
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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
Politics
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Climate change deniers are over attacking the science. Now they attack the solutions.
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One surprising winner in Biden’s infrastructure bill: Biodiversity
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Here’s how the bipartisan infrastructure deal could promote environmental justice
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Can ‘the people’ solve climate change? France decided to find out.
Climate + Data
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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
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The Mentorship Issue
Featured Stories
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School or be schooled: How Gen Z is mentoring their elders on climate action
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Revitalizing Indigenous knowledge means reimagining mentorship
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Resilience, community, and other lessons I’ve learned from my plants
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What happens when communities and academics teach each other? ‘Communiversity.’
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5 unexpected places to find your climate mentor
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Food banks are struggling to fill their shelves, and it’s not just supply chain issues
Climate change, inflation, and price gouging are also at play.
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I might have eaten the meal of the future. It cost $270 and left me hungry.
Daniel Humm is trying to change the taste of luxury at Eleven Madison Park in New York.
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Energy company cancels $2.5 billion oil export terminal in Louisiana
The project faced stiff opposition from residents, who argued it would have destroyed a historic slave burial site.
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Manchin and Cortez Masto kill chances of reforming outdated hardrock mining law
The nearly 150-year old law allows mining companies to extract resources like copper and lithium royalty-free.
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West Virginia Governor Jim Justice faces justice for coal crimes in Kentucky
Kentucky's newest strategy might stop coal barons from gaming the reclamation system.
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Land defenders appear in court after police raids in Wet’suwet’en territory
Arrests by RCMP could allow pipeline to proceed in British Columbia.
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Deb Haaland is taking on racist names on federal lands
“It is well-past time for us, as a nation, to move forward, beyond these derogatory terms.”
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EPA restores water protections weakened under Trump
Smaller waterways and wetlands will be covered again under Clean Water Act.
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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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