Climate Accountability
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![Plastic waste washed up on a sunny beach]()
![Plastic waste washed up on a sunny beach]()
California passes nation’s toughest plastic reduction bill
Experts say the bill could prevent 23 million tons of plastic pollution by 2032.
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![Collage: red scales weighing (left) a coal plant and (right) the EPA logo. Behind the scales is a cutout of the Supreme Court building with a green and black colored planet Earth rising behind the top right section of the roof. Smoke from the coal plant floats over the building and partially obscures the Earth; two stacks of blue dollar bills peek out behind the building on the left.]()
![Collage: red scales weighing (left) a coal plant and (right) the EPA logo. Behind the scales is a cutout of the Supreme Court building with a green and black colored planet Earth rising behind the top right section of the roof. Smoke from the coal plant floats over the building and partially obscures the Earth; two stacks of blue dollar bills peek out behind the building on the left.]()
The Supreme Court’s climate decision came out of a decades-long campaign to kneecap regulation
A brief history of how dark money and the country's most powerful legal organization brought us to this point.
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![A front facing portrait of Kaipo Kekona, an Indigenous Hawaiian farmer.]()
![A front facing portrait of Kaipo Kekona, an Indigenous Hawaiian farmer.]()
The farmers restoring Hawaii’s ancient food forests that once fed an island
Maui is a hub for GMO research, but Indigenous farmers are trying to bring back the abundant and thriving landscapes of their ancestors.
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![NextEra logo on a phone and slightly blurred in background]()
![NextEra logo on a phone and slightly blurred in background]()
With ‘real zero,’ NextEra pushes back against deceptive carbon offsets
Environmental advocates praise the plan and note a few flaws.
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![train passes in front of apartment buildings with industrial facilities and a river in the background]()
![train passes in front of apartment buildings with industrial facilities and a river in the background]()
New Jersey releases blueprint for landmark environmental justice law
'We need to actually say no to industry when it hurts communities.'
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![Alberta oil sands tar sands]()
![Alberta oil sands tar sands]()
Canadians’ $100 billion oil and gas problem
Canadians and investors continue to funnel money into fossil fuel assets that researchers warn will soon become worthless.
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![Amazon package on a conveyor belt]()
![Amazon package on a conveyor belt]()
Nearly half of Amazon shareholders agree: Time to cut back on plastic packaging
They're part of a growing movement calling for greater plastic reductions.
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![Two men in a flooded street before a building that says]()
The world’s climate plans overlook people with disabilities
The failure to consider their needs can be a matter of life and death.
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![silhouette of a wind turbine]()
![silhouette of a wind turbine]()
Companies are reporting cleaner electricity. Researchers say it’s a mirage.
A new study shows that companies are increasingly relying on dubious renewable energy certificates to meet climate targets.
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![Transmission towers in Page Arizona]()
Meet the group lobbying against climate regulations — using your utility bill
The federal government is considering a rule change that would make it harder for utility companies to recover trade association dues.
