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Warsaw warning: World on pace to miss already awful climate targets
Since putting some emissions reduction pledges (don’t call them commitments!) down on paper after the climate conference in Copenhagen, countries have had nearly four years to start building policies to […]
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Illinois College Students Vote Six to One in Favor of Divestment
Mary Anne Hitt: Americans continue to demand clean energy from the local to national level, and here’s yet another amazing example of quick, successful organizing by college students in Illinois. […]
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Want a climate deal? Rich nations will have to pay up to help poor ones
Developing countries are demanding that they get help cutting emissions and adapting to climate change, plus compensation for damage already done.
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A decade of monster hurricanes
Check out these dramatic images of seven record-setting hurricanes from the last decade.
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Climate Change Driving Weather off the Charts
By Janet Larsen Meteorologists are calling the typhoon that slammed into the Philippines with 195-mile-an-hour winds on November 8, 2013, the most powerful tropical storm to make landfall on record. […]
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U.N. climate talks: Four countries behaving badly
Japan, Poland, Australia, and Canada are disgracing themselves at climate negotiations underway in Warsaw.
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Kauai plunges ahead with law targeting GMO farms
The local council overrides the mayor's veto, moving the island toward restrictions on genetically modified crops.
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What’s Wrong With Xcel’s Proposed Community Solar Program?
Fees and illegal caps, for starters. After the state’s solar energy law passed in 2013, Minnesota’s largest electric utility, Xcel Energy, was required to create a program to support the […]
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Coal summit in Warsaw confronted by climate activists – and science
As the World Coal Summit kicked off in Warsaw today, activists and scientists sought to remind the negotiators at the UN climate talks that the coal industry’s business plans are […]
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Word games are misleading the American public about fracking
Pro-drilling politicians often muddle the debate on natural gas. Here's a clearer look at a familiar talking point.
