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![Kamala Harris speaks at a lectern outside with Joe Biden in the background]()
![Kamala Harris speaks at a lectern outside with Joe Biden in the background]()
What would a Harris presidency mean for the climate?
A look at Kamala Harris' record on clean energy, climate diplomacy, and environmental justice in California, the Senate, and the White House.
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![Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, wearing suits, stand on stage. Trump, wearing a white bandage on his ear, is saying something to Vance.]()
![Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, wearing suits, stand on stage. Trump, wearing a white bandage on his ear, is saying something to Vance.]()
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![A portrait of state Sen. Mary Kunesh from Minnesota]()
![A portrait of state Sen. Mary Kunesh from Minnesota]()
The state senator leading efforts to return land to tribal nations
"We can't sit back anymore and not participate."
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![An LNG Tanker sailing under the flag of Palau is moored off the coast of Cyprus. The United States has become one of the world's largest LNG exporters over the past decade.]()
![An LNG Tanker sailing under the flag of Palau is moored off the coast of Cyprus. The United States has become one of the world's largest LNG exporters over the past decade.]()
The quick, quiet death of Biden’s natural gas export pause
Climate activists saw the policy as a major win. It fizzled out within six months.
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![Several people harvest beans in a field.]()
![Several people harvest beans in a field.]()
Biden admin unveils first-ever heat protections for workers. Here’s what to know.
The proposal comes as Americans endure another summer of record-breaking temperatures.
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![Steam rises from the smokestacks to fill the night sky above the Miller coal Power Plant in Adamsville, Alabama.]()
![Steam rises from the smokestacks to fill the night sky above the Miller coal Power Plant in Adamsville, Alabama.]()
These Supreme Court decisions just made it harder to solve climate change
Four key rulings limiting federal power will curtail the ability of the EPA and other agencies to write and enforce climate policies.
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![Two workers pick peaches from trees.]()
![Two workers pick peaches from trees.]()
The Biden administration is inching closer to a heat standard for workers — if the election doesn’t doom it
The long-awaited rule could be finalized before November, but it faces political hurdles either way.
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![President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump stand behind podiums on the left, and behind them is a large blue screen with the words]()
![President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump stand behind podiums on the left, and behind them is a large blue screen with the words]()
Climate change got a question in the presidential debate. It didn’t get much of an answer.
Biden alluded to the Inflation Reduction Act, while Trump went on an incoherent rant about "H2O."
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![President-elect of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum stands at a podium during a press conference at the Palacio Nacional in Mexico City on June 10, 2024.]()
![President-elect of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum stands at a podium during a press conference at the Palacio Nacional in Mexico City on June 10, 2024.]()
Can Claudia Sheinbaum solve Mexico’s water crisis?
The country’s incoming president made water her “main concern” when she was mayor of Mexico City.
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![Seven men in suits and two women in pantsuits walk in the same direction across some gray cobblestones with seven world flags behind them]()
![Seven men in suits and two women in pantsuits walk in the same direction across some gray cobblestones with seven world flags behind them]()
Food’s climate footprint was once again MIA at global talks
At the G7 summit and Bonn climate conference, world leaders failed to discuss "the cow in the room."
