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Colorado’s Unrelenting Ozone Pollution Could Mean Long-Term Problems For Your Health
Non-stop ozone can increase the risk of dying from heart and lung diseases, and can decrease birth weights. Recent research…
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U.S. Can Build and Fight Climate Change at Same Time
(Bloomberg Opinion) — As part of efforts to pay for President Joe Biden’s proposed $3.5 trillion spending plan and ahead…
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Chevron Taps Permian Chief to Run New Low-Carbon Division
(Bloomberg) — Chevron Corp. is creating a new business division focused on scaling up new technologies such as carbon capture…
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More Money Than Ever Is Flowing Into Climate Tech
On Tuesday, two alternative asset managers—TPG and Brookfield—closed a combined $12.4 billion in climate investment funds. That’s more committed in…
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Energy Guru Is ‘Beyond’ Disappointed With Dwindling U.S. Infrastructure Plan
(Bloomberg) — For almost two decades the U.S. author and climate activist Jeremy Rifkin has advised governments in Europe and China…
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Champagne With No Bubbles? Thank Climate Change
(Bloomberg) — The sparkle in great Champagne is known all over the world. So why is the region increasingly making…
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TPG Raises $5.4 Billion for Climate Fund Chaired by Hank Paulson
(Bloomberg) — TPG has brought in $5.4 billion for its climate investing strategy, making it one of the biggest sustainability-focused…
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Artificial Intelligence Could Dramatically Speed Up Climate Action
Technological solutions to climate change can be put into two categories. Vertical solutions that tackle pollution in one sector, say low-carbon…
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Warming rivers in US West killing fish, imperiling industry
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Baby salmon are dying by the thousands in one California river, and an entire run of…
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Oil Giants Hunt for That One Last Big Hit Along Coast of Brazil
(Bloomberg) — If an energy transition is underway around the world, it hasn’t reached the streets of Ilha da Conceicao,…
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Rat nests contribute to fossil record in odd Wyoming cave
1 of 3 Jenny McGuire, an assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Georgia Tech University, holds a small…
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India on the frontline of climate change
In this file photograph taken on June 2, 2019, Indian villagers lower buckets down into a well running dry to…
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Tesla Finally Bows to Charging Competition
Mr. Musk will juice you up — yes, even you Nissan and Porsche people who have steered well clear of…
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Why Hasn’t Climate Change Put a Dent in Luxury Real Estate?
(Bloomberg) — About a week after NASA released satellite imagery of California’s precipitously low water reserves, Douglas Elliman published its…
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‘Climate Chancellor’ Merkel Leaves Germans Flooded and Frustrated
(Bloomberg Markets) — Angela Merkel’s slow-motion departure from the German political stage took an ironic turn in April as the…
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FEATURE-Catching fire: AI is helping scarce firefighters better predict blazes
By Avi Asher-Schapiro, Thomson Reuters Foundation * Artificial intelligence helps model fires before they break out * Tech tools allow…
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A Startup Plans to Mine the Ocean Floor. It Could Be a Disaster.
(Bloomberg Opinion) — The sea floor between Hawaii and Mexico is covered in potato-sized rocks that contain many of the…
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PG&E’s Wildfire Plan: 10,000-Mile Trench Warfare
(Bloomberg Opinion) — When you’ve been stuck in the bunker as long as PG&E has, going underground is second nature.…
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The Saudi Prince of Oil Prices Vows to Drill ‘Every Last Molecule’
(Bloomberg Markets) — The Boeing 767 banked over the Red Sea, turning east into Saudi Arabia. A commercial version of…
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Greening Energy to Fight Climate Threat May Cost $92 Trillion
(Bloomberg) — Governments and companies will need to invest at least $92 trillion by 2050 in order to cut emissions…
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Proposed new rules to curb Colorado commuters rile businesses
The state of Colorado wants all large businesses in the metro Denver area to track what their employees do before…
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Trial Arrives for a Mastermind of Honduran Activist’s Murder
Last August, a Honduran court ruled David Castillo would finally face trial on charges he planned the 2016 murder of…
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Green screen: The sequel
Last year, I wrote about some of the worst efforts to incorporate environmental themes into cinema. One of the all-time…
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China Is Carrying Out the World’s Largest Climate Migration Program
It’s the Dragon Boat Festival in early summer and Xiang Yang and his wife are sitting outside their house in…
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Greenland suspends oil exploration because of climate change
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The left-leaning government of Greenland has decided to suspend all oil exploration off the world’s largest…
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Winning a Policy Debate Is All About Timing
How do policy options move to the top of a party’s agenda? The short answer: when groups fight for them,…
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai: Climate is ‘bar none’ the No. 1 concern for young people
Google’s dedicated “sustainability” landing page is where the tech giant outlines its goals to combat climate change — like being…
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Welcome to Europe in 2035: Electric Taxis and Hydrogen Boilers
(Bloomberg) — It’s just after 5 p.m. on Friday in late July 2035. You’re driving home from work in your electric car.…
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EU unveils tough climate rules, eyes tax on foreign firms
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union unveiled sweeping new legislation Wednesday to help meet its pledge to cut emissions of…
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The Winklevoss’s Crypto Carbon Capture Conundrum
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Picture a metric ton of carbon dioxide. That’s tricky to do, what with it being a gas and an…
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Corporate Climate Efforts Lack Impact, Say Former Sustainability Executives
(Bloomberg) — Tariq Fancy’s growing sense of unease and frustration with sustainable investing culminated on a private jet. The irony…
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CLIMATE: Medical students push for classes on warming’s health impacts
During her first year of medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, the wildfire smoke was so bad…
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GE Sets 2050 Goal of Zero Emissions From Jet Engines, Gas Power
(Bloomberg) — General Electric Co. vowed to curb the greenhouse gases produced by the use of its products—including thousands of…
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Pandemic garbage boom ignites debate over waste as energy
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — America remains awash in refuse as new cases of the coronavirus decline — and that has…
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EU to Press Ahead on Carbon Tax That IMF Criticizes: G-20 Update
(Bloomberg) — Finance ministers from the Group of 20 nations aimed to deliver momentum to the global effort on climate…
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Golf Carts Now Run on the Same Batteries as Your EV
Golf carts are no exception. “The pandemic exploded our business,” said John Evans, who has been running Mission Golf Cars…
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‘We’ve been disrespected’
By Majlie de Puy Kamp, CNN Photographs by Will Lanzoni, CNNVideo by Matthew Gannon, Demetrius Pipkin & Nick Scott, CNN…
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Wind Project Splinters a Mexico Region Prized for Powerful Gusts
(Bloomberg) — Two years ago, an SUV carrying four men screeched to a halt in front of the house of German…
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The Latest Green Bitcoin Plan Uses, Er, Coal
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Bitcoin has a carbon problem. Producing Bitcoins and keeping them secure relies too much on cheap coal power,…
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The Life and Suspicious Death of Cachou the Bear
(Bloomberg) — Ivan Afonso checked his computer one last time before picking up the phone. It was April 2020, and…
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Private Equity Follows the Money—and the Money Is Ditching Fossil Fuels
(Bloomberg) — The buyout industry has long been a major backer of fossil-fuel deals. Now it’s rolling out new green…
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On the Jersey Shore, Surf’s Up — Way Up
(Bloomberg Opinion) — In New Jersey’s beach towns, there are two sets of data that always seem to be rising:…
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Add Federal Permits to the List of U.S. Crises
(Bloomberg Opinion) — The Biden administration’s American Jobs Plan talks about a climate crisis and an affordable housing crisis in…
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Up to Twenty Percent of Groundwater Wells Are in Danger of Running Dry
(Bloomberg) — As many as one in five wells worldwide is at risk of running dry if groundwater levels drop…
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