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USDA to help farmers navigate the murky world of soil carbon offsets
A new law tasks the agency with creating resources for farmers, but it may not address their biggest concerns.
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Tesla co-founder’s startup gets $2 billion to boost EV battery production
The government loan is part of a Biden Administration push to create a domestic EV supply chain.
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From fiction to reality: Could airships be the key to greener travel?
Airships have captured science-fiction writers’ imaginations — including Kim Stanley Robinson in Ministry for the Future. We examine the tech’s utility in the real world.
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Climate denial campaign goes retro with new textbook
‘The 1990s called. They want their scientific misinformation back.’
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EPA issues rare veto, halting Alaska’s Pebble mine
Mining waste would have jeopardized the world’s largest sockeye salmon run.
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How Pittsburgh found a secret climate weapon in ‘the thrilling world of municipal budgeting’
Even cash-strapped cities have money for climate action. They just need to spend it better.
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Oil refineries are polluting US waterways. Too often, it’s legal.
Facilities release a "witches' brew" of toxins in their wastewater.
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Tired of being told to ‘adapt,’ an Indigenous community wrote its own climate action plan
On the Flathead Reservation, a "living document" speaks to thousands of years of history while facing new challenges.
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Ann Arbor’s big decarbonization bet
The Michigan city has ambitions to go carbon neutral, and they begin in one of its most frontline neighborhoods.
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Can cities eliminate heat-related deaths in a warming world? Phoenix is trying.
Phoenix hopes a new Office of Heat Response can move fast enough to counter the impacts of deadly heat.
