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Environmental activists rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 after it ruled against the Obama administration's plan to cut climate-warming emissions at the nation's power plants. The Supreme Court has since further limited the power of federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency.

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  • Climate

Why the next president's judicial appointments will impact climate action

The Supreme Court's recent term illustrates the judiciary's outsized role in government's ability to address climate change. The coming election could shape the judicial landscape for decades to come.

July 13, 2024
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  • Nathan Rott
Some of the reusable items to avoid single use plastics.

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  • National

How to live without plastics for a month, according to the founder of a global movement

Plastic Free July is upon us! Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, founder of Plastic Free July, encourages people to take the challenge with friends, start small and keep a “plastic-free kit” on hand.

July 12, 2024
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  • Claire Murashima
Google Vice President Majd Bakar speaks on-stage during an annual conference in San Francisco with the back drop of a massive data center.

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  • Business

AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change

The tech giants both report surges in greenhouse gas emissions as they double-down on adding artificial intelligence to all of their products.

July 12, 2024
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  • Dara Kerr
Pump jacks extract oil from beneath the ground in North Dakota on May 19, 2021. The federal government announced a $241.5 million settlement with Marathon Oil on Thursday for alleged air quality violations at the company's oil and gas operations in the Forth Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota.

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  • Environment

Marathon Oil reaches a $241 million settlement with EPA for environmental violations

The federal government announced a settlement with Marathon Oil for alleged air quality violations at the company's oil and gas operations on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota.

July 11, 2024
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  • The Associated Press

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  • Health

How to prepare for power outages if your health depends on home medical devices

For most people, power outages are an inconvenience. For those who count on electricity for home medical equipment, they can be a crisis. Here's how to plan ahead for health care needs in a blackout.

July 11, 2024
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  • Ginny Graves
A macaque sits on a rock at Cayo Santiago as a rainbow stretches across the sky in February 2022.

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  • Science

These monkeys were 'notoriously competitive' until Hurricane Maria wrecked their home

Rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago are known for being intolerant, hierarchical and aggressive. After 2017's Hurricane Maria destroyed their home, the monkeys' society underwent surprising changes.

July 10, 2024
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  • Ari Daniel
A home is surrounded by floodwater in Texas. Beryl hit the state as a Category-1 hurricane. The remnants of the storm are expected to move far from the ocean toward the Midwest, where they also pose risks of dangerous flooding.

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  • Climate

Far from the ocean, remnants of storms like Beryl can cause severe floods

Even after storms lose their hurricane status and head far inland, they can still cause dangerous floods. Storms like Beryl pose risks far from the coast, even in Canada.

July 09, 2024
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  • Rebecca Hersher and
  • Julia Simon
Sunland Park Fire Department firefighters and police officers roll a migrant woman, who was suffering from heat-related illness, on a gurney to be loaded into an ambulance in a residential area in Sunland Park, N.M., on Friday, June 28, 2024.

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  • National

Border town firefighters scramble to save migrants from extreme summer heat

Over two hot days, the Sunland Park Fire Department responded to 10 calls to help migrants overcome by heat illness. Firefighters say heat emergencies are increasingly common along the border.

July 08, 2024
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
A woman cools herself with a fan during a hot day in London on June 26, 2024. June 2024 was the hottest June on record, according to Europe's Copernicus climate service.

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  • Climate

June sizzled to a 13th straight monthly heat record, but July might break string

It's not that records are being broken monthly but they are being "shattered by very substantial margins over the past 13 months," a climate scientist said.

July 08, 2024
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  • Associated Press
A worker adjusts his helmet on a construction site under the sun as southern California faces a heat wave, in Los Angeles, on Wednesday.

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  • Weather

Temperature records are shattered as extreme heat grips the West and East coasts

The heat wave in the U.S. is far from over. Parts of both coasts are bearing the brunt of the heat with record-breaking temperatures. The heat will continue its grip over the next few days.

July 07, 2024
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  • Juliana Kim
Marvin Cox, community outreach director with the Metropolitan Action Commission on June 25, in Nashville. As temperatures reached into the upper 90s, the Metro Action Commission was offering free window AC units to seniors, families with young children and people with medical conditions.

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  • National

As heat waves intensify, more public housing residents may get help with AC bills

For decades, public housing providers could subsidize heating bills but not air-conditioning. New Biden administration guidance changes that, but critics say it doesn’t go far enough.

July 04, 2024
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  • Jennifer Ludden
Family members survey their home destroyed by Hurricane Beryl, in Ottley Hall, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, on Tuesday. Beryl is the most powerful storm to form this early in the Atlantic hurricane season.

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  • Climate

Why climate change makes a hurricane like Beryl more dangerous

Record-shattering ocean temperatures have helped Beryl gain strength as it moves through the Caribbean. It is the most powerful Atlantic hurricane ever recorded this early in the year.

July 04, 2024
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  • Michael Copley and
  • Rebecca Hersher
A boat crosses Lake Oroville with a smoldering hillside behind as the Thompson Fire burns in Oroville, Calif., on Wednesday. An extended heatwave blanketing Northern California has resulted in red flag fire warnings and power shutoffs.

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  • National

Thousands evacuate as Northern California wildfire spreads. More hot weather is expected

Firefighters are battling a growing wildfire in Northern California that has forced at least 26,000 people to evacuate. The fire's cause is being investigated.

July 03, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
People place plywood over windows as they make last-minute preparations for the arrival of Hurricane Beryl in Kingston, Jamaica, on Wednesday.

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  • Weather

Hurricane Beryl roars toward Jamaica after battering southeast Caribbean islands

Hurricane Beryl is nearing Jamaica as a Category 4 storm, and forecast to make landfall on Wednesday. Officials there have declared a "major disaster area" and implemented an island-wide curfew.

July 03, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
A flare burns at Venture Global LNG in Cameron, La., April 21, 2022. What would be the nation's largest export terminal for liquified natural gas won approval from a federal commission on June 27, 2024, although when the southwest Louisiana project will be completed remains unclear.

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  • Law

A judge sides with states over Biden and allows gas export projects to move forward

U.S. District Judge James Cain, Jr. sided with the states, granting a preliminary injunction that puts the Biden administration’s delay consideration of projects aimed at LNG exports on hold.

July 02, 2024
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