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House Democrats on Wednesday introduced a sweeping plan intended to spur the U.S. to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Shareholders of one of Europe's biggest banks are pushing for it to stop investing in fossil fuels, in the first shareholder action of its kind targeting a European bank.
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A major plastics manufacturing complex planned for construction in a highly-polluted region of Louisiana may disrupt a historic slave burial site, The Intercept reports.
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Ocean waters off the coast of California are acidifying twice as fast as the rest of the world's oceans, new research shows.
U.S. Forest Service Allows Mining Company to Write Its Own Environmental Report, Docs Show
The Trump administration allowed a mining company to write its own report for how proposed mines in Idaho would affect protected species in the area, the AP reports.
Greta Thunberg is Time Magazine's Person of the Year, the magazine announced this morning.
Climate models dating back decades were "quite accurate" in predicting warming through present day, new research shows.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday led a 15-member delegation from the U.S. Congress to climate negotiations in Madrid where they affirmed their commitment to the Paris agreement.
Residents of ethnic minority neighborhoods are paying more for utilities than people living in majority-white neighborhoods, regardless of socioeconomic status, new research shows.