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Clean Energy Is Affordable Energy. So Why Is New York State Breaking Its Climate Promises?

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Australia’s housing affordability expected to worsen and homelessness soar under fossil-fuelled future

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Trump’s Push to Keep Coal Plants Open Is Costing Hundreds of Millions | Costs have been mounting in the year since the Trump administration began directing aging coal plants to stay open.

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Hantavirus is a climate story | Scientists tell HEATED the hantavirus outbreak is a warning that climate change is scrambling the boundaries between humans, wildlife, and disease.

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More than half of US faces worst drought in decades, says expert

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Chevron Seeks Huge Tax Break to Build a Power Plant for a Texas Data Center | It would emit more CO2 than the entire nation of Jamaica.

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Climate Change Big Player at FIFA World Cup 2026

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Record global temperatures possible as chance of a 'super El Niño' grows

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A $20 Trillion Wealth Transfer Is Happening Under Our Noses

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A $20 Trillion Wealth Transfer Is Happening Under Our Noses

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Tech groups score win on clean energy rules for gas-powered data centres | Corporate climate watchdog drops stricter proposal on net zero claims after heavy lobbying

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UN members prepare for pivotal vote on landmark ICJ climate justice ruling | If resolution is passed, governments will recognise their legal responsibility to cut greenhouse gas emissions

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Can Some Very Tiny Particles Cool the Planet? One Tech Company Says Yes.

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Stardust Solutions says its tiny spheres can reflect the sun’s rays without harming people or the environment. Critics say private companies have no business altering Earth’s atmosphere.

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JP Morgan becomes one of the first banks to look at climate tipping points: Leading bank outlines how firms can start thinking about climate tipping points in a report aimed at institutional investors

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San Francisco Bay Area air regulators split on whether to move forward with ban on gas water heaters that will cost homeowners $3,500

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Oil Pipelines Align With Jesus, Danielle Smith [Premier of the Canadian province of Alberta] Tells Christian Leaders

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The Alberta premier gave a biblical justification for oil expansion at a Christian conference featuring Conservative MPs and provincial cabinet ministers.

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Why More Intense Bursts of Rain Are Making the Planet Drier: Land can’t absorb all the water from strong, sporadic storms, leaving much of it to evaporate. That’s happening at a global scale

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Something startling is happening in the Gulf of Mexico: Its waters are heating up twice as fast as the global oceans, with huge implications for hurricane risk.

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America can’t afford year-round E15 fuel [gasoline with 15% corn-derived alcohol blended in]— Congress must reject it

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A growing body of evidence now indicates that corn ethanol may generate emissions comparable to, or even worse than, gasoline once full lifecycle impacts are considered. The Environmental Protection Agency’s own Science Advisory Board concluded in 2023 that recent emissions estimates for corn ethanol exceed those of gasoline.

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In Alabama and Georgia, residents were set to get home energy upgrades to lower their bills. Then the Trump administration canceled the grant, calling it DEI.

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