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How to get a university to divest

How to get a university to divest

On Nov. 1, Abby Herd helped lead a group of Simon Fraser University students over the finish line as they won an eight-year campaign to persuade the administration to divest from fossil fuels by 2025.
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offshore oil drilling Newfoundland and Labrador

Appeal aims to stop drilling for oil offshore of Newfoundland and Labrador

Environmental groups opposing fossil fuel expansion off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador are appealing after a request for a judicial review on exploratory oil and gas drilling legislation was dismissed. 
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Barents Sea rail link

Putin instructs government to get new Barents Sea rail link back on track

Still unclear who will possibly pay for the 500 kilometers long railway from Karpogory in Arkhangelsk region to the not-yet-built port in Indiga on the eastern coast of the Barents Sea.
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mlk jr climate justice politics

Inspired by King’s words, experts say the fight for climate justice anywhere is a fight for climate justice everywhere

On the holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., scientists, theologians, ministers and climate justice advocates find commonality in the movement he led more than half a century ago.

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Canada’s biggest emitters are paying the lowest carbon tax rate

Although Canada is heralded as having one of the most ambitious prices on carbon in the world, rising from its current $40 per tonne to $170 by 2030, Suncor and other large industrial emitters pay only a tiny fraction of it.

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ozone crop yields food

Ozone harms East Asian crops, costing $63 billion a year, scientists say

Fossil fuel emissions aren’t just driving climate change and worsening air quality, they’re also hurting crop yields enough to cause some $63 billion in annual losses in East Asia, scientists say.

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bicycle bus energy climate solutions

Evesham children use bicycle bus to cut town's air pollution

A bicycle bus has been used by children to travel around a town to keep them healthy and cut pollution. The 10-seat vehicle is powered by passengers and cost £16,000 to buy from a manufacturer in The Netherlands.

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fuel leak water contamination

'Thousands of gallons of fuel' leak into river as residents hit out

Residents in Musselburgh have been left outraged after taking it upon themselves to try and prevent a pollution incident in their local river from getting any worse.

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SkyNano turns TVA's carbon emissions into nanotubes, "black gold"

SkyNano turns TVA's carbon emissions into nanotubes, "black gold"

What if we could capture the carbon dioxide that power plants put into the air and make it something useful? East Tennessee startup SkyNano is trying to make that possible.

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salt lake city utah pollution

New bill lists Utah air pollution as contributor to someone’s death

House Bill 109, sponsored by Rep. Stephen Handy, R-Layton, allows a physician to say that air pollution was a contributor to someone’s death when it’s put on file with Utah’s Department of Health.

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Federal Reserve chair says its role in addressing climate "limited"

Federal Reserve chair says its role in addressing climate "limited"

Powell’s reappointment is threatened by Democrats calling for more aggressive action by the Federal Reserve on climate.
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The Point, a new Utah community, will be a 15-minute city

The Point, a new Utah community, will be a 15-minute city

“One of our goals is to create what we’ve termed a one-car community.”
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Schwarzenegger: Don't let California regulators raise the cost of solar

Schwarzenegger: Don't let California regulators raise the cost of solar

Removing incentives to encourage homeowners to install solar panels is a bad idea.
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Iraq is reeling from climate change

Rising temperatures, dying cattle: Iraq is reeling from climate change

Iraq is at the frontlines of the climate crisis, with temperatures rising twice as fast as the global average. It’s also a major oil producer and the world’s second largest offender of gas flaring, a process that releases CO2.

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can artificial intelligence help predict Louisiana floods

Could artificial intelligence help predict Louisiana floods better? This LSU prof thinks so.

Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, LSU professor Hartmut Kaiser is joining up with a team of scientists to help communities near the coast better prepare for flooding.
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refrigeration as an agent of climate catastrophe

How the refrigerator became an agent of climate catastrophe

The evolution of cooling technology helps to explain why supposed solutions to global warming have only made the situation worse.
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climate impacts opinion diane carman

Diane Carman: Don’t we all really want to build back better?

By not planning for climate change, not working to mitigate risk and failing to build sustainable systems, we set ourselves up for an endless cycle of multibillion-dollar disaster response efforts.

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Heading for a second term, Fed Chair Jerome Powell bucks a global trend on climate change

Heading for a second term, Fed Chair Jerome Powell bucks a global trend on climate change

As other central banks take a more activist role, Powell wants congress and the private sector to assess growing climate risks. Elizabeth Warren calls his views “dangerous.”

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yucatan climate adaptation

Yucatan is a national model in the fight against climate change and environmental protection

Yucatan is spearheading environmental protection by urgently addressing the climate emergency with legislative initiatives, programs focused on waste management, and clean energy generation, fighting promoted by the Government of Yucatan, to have an increasingly green state.

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WA’s offshore gasfields pay almost no royalties and stoke carbon emissions, report finds

Australia’s giant offshore gasfields are paying almost no royalties, create few jobs and are a large and rising source of greenhouse gases, according to a new report from the Australia Institute.

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Residents live dangerously amid growing number of oil-polluted rivers in Niger Delta communities

Residents live dangerously amid growing number of oil-polluted rivers in Niger Delta communities

Oil pollution has rendered almost all natural water bodies in the Niger Delta area of the South-South region useless.

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Tri-state residents make life changes in response to climate change concerns

According to a 2021 Pew Research Center survey, 44% of Americans are willing to make “some” changes to how they live and work to help reduce the effects of global climate change. Another 30% said they were willing to make “a lot” of changes.

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wef climate impacts

WEF flags climate change risks to economic outlook in the country

The economy could struggle to recover to pre-pandemic levels if it fails to deal with climate change and environmental risks in the next five to 10 years, pushing resources to be diverted elsewhere.
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California needs to do more than just throw money at climate change. It must act

California needs to do more than just throw money at climate change. It must act

Priority number one must be ending fossil fuels and the pollution they cause, and California can’t get there just by throwing money at the problem and calling it climate action.

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Missouri regulators explicitly allow coal ash pollution at Ameren's Labadie power plant

Missouri regulators explicitly allow coal ash pollution at Ameren's Labadie power plant

The coal ash basins at Labadie Energy Center contain 15 million cubic yards of waste, the largest volume of Ameren’s four coal-fired power plants in Missouri.

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Op-ed: California is poised to kill rooftop solar, damaging climate and health

Op-ed: California is poised to kill rooftop solar, damaging climate and health

The effort to end rooftop solar is through an esoteric rule called Net Metering 3.0.
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Dutch construction innovation shows how to retrofit buildings quickly

Dutch construction innovation shows how to retrofit buildings quickly

Energiesprong (‘energy jump’) is finding ways to make buildings more efficient without requiring major construction projects.
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Who should pay to fix California’s sunken canals?

Who should pay to fix California’s sunken canals?

Agribusiness and its proponents say repairs will benefit disadvantaged towns. Those residents disagree.
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Milan plans bike lane infrastructure to rival Paris

Milan plans bike lane infrastructure to rival Paris

Italy’s most populous metro area will build hundreds of kilometers of protected cycling lanes to ward off worsening pollution from cars and trucks.
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Energy Department to announce Clean Energy Corps, hire 1,000 staffers to work on climate change

Energy Department to announce Clean Energy Corps, hire 1,000 staffers to work on climate change

The effort marks the latest sign that President Biden is harnessing the powers of the federal government to meet his ambitious climate goals, as Democrats' Build Back Better Act remains stalled in Congress.
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The past seven years have been the hottest in recorded history, new data shows

The past seven years have been the hottest in recorded history, new data shows

Global temperatures in 2021 were among the highest ever observed, with 25 countries setting new annual records.
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Living closer to oil and gas drilling linked to higher risk of pregnancy complications

Living closer to oil and gas drilling linked to higher risk of pregnancy complications

Living near oil and gas drilling may increase pregnant women’s risk of developing gestational hypertension and eclampsia, according to a new study.

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Energy ended up as a good bet last year. But now what?

Energy ended up as a good bet last year. But now what?

Oil prices soared in 2021, giving a boost to the stocks of energy companies. But with the world shifting toward greener alternatives, don’t count on that trend continuing.
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New sanctions for Russian gas pipeline fall short in Senate

New sanctions for Russian gas pipeline fall short in Senate

The measure pitted Ukraine’s president, who was pushing for the penalties, against the Biden administration, which successfully lobbied Democrats to oppose them.
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Big Cannabis uses Big Energy

Your pot isn’t as green as you think

Cannabis giant Canopy Growth has reported its emissions for the first time, revealing its energy use was equivalent to burning more than 65 million pounds of coal in 2020.
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