UPDATE: A student climate activist will be deported from Canada on Sunday, after a judge denied his application for delay. In one final attempt to keep Zain Haq in the country, friends and family are pushing for executive intervention.
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Is “clean energy” a useful term, or should it be retired? Our @dangearino asked some experts.
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With the Great Salt Lake still on the verge of collapse, lake advocates hope pushing to have a small bird protected under the Endangered Species Act will bring federal help for the lake.
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A new national lab survey shows broad support for solar projects from people who live within three miles. But beyond that topline, it gets complicated. My story:
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Fracking-induced earthquakes are menacing Argentina as regulators stand by. Policymakers have long known that fracking operations can trigger earthquakes. Why has it taken regulators so long to exercise oversight over the industry?
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The U.S. Department of Justice said pipeline company Enbridge is “consciously trespassing” on land belonging to the Bad River Band of northern Wisconsin and should pay for its “ill-gotten gains.”
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What happens when water scarcity and clean energy collide? In South Texas, a high-tech chemical company has purchased the last available water supply from the Nueces River, raising concerns of regional scarcity as reservoirs dwindle and drought persists.
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In Arizona’s San Pedro Valley, the SunZia transmission line would carry wind energy from New Mexico to California. The project has sparked one of the most consequential fights over the development of green spaces for green energy.
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In many parts of the U.S., the weather exceeded expectations yesterday as people gathered to experience the total solar eclipse. As climate change looms, the future may not be as bright.
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While the U.S. has imported most of its lithium, there’s been one major domestic source of the mineral—Nevada. One company claims it holds the rights to nearly all the groundwater needed to mine lithium in the remote basin, leaving little room for others.
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Some Congressional Democrats are pressing the Biden administration to quickly finalize climate disclosure rules for big military, aerospace and other federal contractors. The clock is running before an election that could upend the plan.
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Zambia, like its southern African neighbors, depends on rain for its food, energy and economy. But it hasn’t gotten enough this year, and likely won’t in the future, a victim of a climate crisis it didn’t cause.
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For months, smalltooth sawfish in the Florida Keys have exhibited strange behavior like spinning and whirling. Now there is a first-of-its-kind federal effort to rescue them.
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Yesterday, the Biden administration announced a $20 billion investment “to fund tens of thousands of climate and clean energy projects across America, especially in communities historically left behind and overburdened by pollution.”
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Two legal experts have been hosting a series of panels at prominent law schools to promote the idea that fossil fuel companies should be charged with homicide and other crimes.
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A day before Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg took a tour of a flooded Black community in rural Alabama, state officials announced a plan to offer “protesting” community members a buyout. Residents called the offer a slap in the face.
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Fossil-fueled warming has enabled tropical species from the Pacific Basin to move into the Eastern Mediterranean. New research shows tropical species may also soon migrate from the Atlantic.
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One-third of Africa’s great apes—including gorillas, chimps and bonobos—could be negatively impacted by the booming mining industry, a new study found.
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California emits more sulfuryl fluoride, a climate super-pollutant and highly toxic pesticide, than the rest of the U.S. combined.
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Last week, former NFL linebacker Ronald McKinnon spoke with ICN about his hometown in rural Alabama and the flooding issues its residents, including his family, continue to face.
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