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Despite backlash, more states are considering laws to make Big Oil pay for climate change
Vermont became the first state to pass a climate Superfund law. The concept is modeled after the 1980 federal Superfund law, ...
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States Can Take Meaningful Climate Action, Even Without Federal Support: Study
State action to reduce carbon emissions and address climate change can make a big difference, even in the absence of a strong ...
The U.S. Under Trump: Alone in Its Climate Denial
The administration is not only allowing more greenhouse gases. It is undermining the nation’s ability to understand and ...
The rumours were true: China’s greenhouse gas emissions are falling
Suspicions were first reported last year that the world’s biggest greenhouse gas polluter was managing to cut its emissions ...
The EPA didn't release its annual U.S. greenhouse gas emissions report, but we got the data. Here's what we found
The Environmental Defense Fund published the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks after filing a Freedom of ...
Pet Diets Are Quietly Contributing to Climate Change - but There’s a Simple Fix
The study examined 21 existing analyses of pet food sustainability and concluded that diet was the single largest factor ...
The Independent8d
Democracies appear greener by outsourcing pollution to autocratic nations, study finds
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech ... This “pollution offshoring” allows them to lower greenhouse gas emissions within their borders while the global environmental ...
A vicious cycle: How methane emissions from warming wetlands could exacerbate climate change
Warming in the Arctic is intensifying methane emissions, contributing to a vicious feedback loop that could accelerate climate change even more, according to a new study published May 7 in Nature.
Governors are leading the fight against climate change and deforestation around the world, filling a void left by presidents
A long-time leader of California’s climate efforts explains how governors from Brazil to Indonesia have become the leading ...
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After landmark climate ruling, state lawmakers work to limit its scope
Sixteen young Montanan’s made headlines when they sued the state – and won – for failing to act on climate change. Republican ...
The Press Democrat4d
Should California’s climate budget pay for high speed rail and firefighters? Gov. Newsom’s new plan triggers fiery debate
Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to extend California's landmark cap and trade program through 2045. But earmarking half of this ...
Topsham residents to vote on budget, Climate Action Plan next week
The special town meeting is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 28, at in the Forum at Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham.