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Trump Policies Hand Poor, Non-White Areas the ‘Brunt’ of Climate Impacts
Critics are warning that the Trump administration’s proposed changes to the environmental review process for pipeline and highway megaprojects will hit poor and minority ... -
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Conservative U.S. States Take Tentative Steps, But Won’t Call it Climate Action
Across major swaths of the United States, legislators in some of the country’s most conservative enclaves are making tentative moves to take action on ... -
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Harvard Students Protest After Exxon’s Law Firm Tries to Recruit Them
An elite U.S. corporate law firm flopped badly in its recent bid to recruit Harvard law students, when nearly a third of the invitees ... -
U.S. Judges Toss Landmark Youth Climate Case, Send Plaintiffs Back to the Ballot Box
After a five-year push just to secure a trial date, the landmark Juliana v. United States youth climate justice case is hanging by a ... -
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Mixed Results for 2019 Show Slight Rise in Renewable Energy Investment
World renewable energy investment hit US$282.2 billion last year, slightly higher than 2018’s total of $280.2 billion, with investment declining in China but hitting ... -
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Microsoft Pledges $1 Billion to Become Carbon-Negative by 2030
Software giant Microsoft is embarking on a four-year, US$1-billion effort to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, aiming to remove more CO2 than ... -
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Trusted Household Brands Help YouTube Videos ‘Turn Climate Denial Into Cash’
YouTube is broadcasting climate denial and misinformation to many millions, and some of the world’s biggest brands are unknowingly underwriting that activity, warns a ... -
Construction on Cross-Border Segment of Keystone XL to Begin in April
Construction on the 1.9-kilometre segment of the contested Keystone XL pipeline that crosses the Canada-U.S. border is set to begin in April, according to ...
