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This is Trump’s chance to tank the solar industry


This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.


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Maria has plunged Puerto Rico into a humanitarian emergency


The rain and winds may be over, but Maria’s impact on Puerto Rico is only just beginning. The storm’s rains fell at a rate exceeding that of Hurricane Harvey in Texas with wind speeds exceeding that of Hurricane Irma in Florida.


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Hurricanes keep bringing blackouts. Clean energy could keep the lights on.


When Hurricane Irma scraped its way up the Florida peninsula, it left the state’s electrical grid in pieces.


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EPA employees eagerly leak documents from their mandatory anti-leaking class.

This week, workers at the federal agency attended a one-hour training course on how to prevent leaks to the press.


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How the avocado-toast bubble will burst.

Avocado prices are shooting through the stratosphere. They’re so expensive that a real-estate mogul in Australia has blamed city-dwellers’ struggles with high housing costs on the millennial love affair with avocado toast.


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Adrian Grenier, viral turtles, and Seattle’s big ban: Welcome to the wild world of plastic straws


Adrian Grenier is not coming to lunch. This is the gist of the text that I receive from the former Entourage star and current activist’s publicist, approximately 45 minutes before said lunch date.


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Not enough states are taking climate action. Time to make some calls!

It’s Climate Week in New York!!! A host of CEOs and government officials — including Washington Governor Jay Inslee, New York’s Andrew Cuomo, and California’s Jerry Brown — have descended on New York City to discuss what the United States can do to compensate for the federal lack of action on climate change.


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Climate solutions need cold, hard cash. This group aims to make those investments easier.

“If you just look at the energy sector, we need about a trillion a year,” Barbara Buchner says about the gap between between our climate goals and the amount of investment in developing solutions.


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Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico with record-breaking rains.

The most powerful hurricane to hit the island in nearly a century brought ravaging winds and rainfall on Wednesday, destroying homes, knocking out all of the power, and snapping concrete poles in half.


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Trump is deluded if he thinks he can negotiate a new, better Paris agreement


This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.


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Can we still avoid the worst climate change? Maybe.

A new study in Nature Geoscience shook the climate science world by suggesting that we may have more leeway in the fight to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C.


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‘Mother!’ is a climate change parable, and it sounds terrifying.

No movie this year has generated more intrigue than director Darren Aronofsky’s horror flick mother!, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem.


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Mexico City was built on land that’s prone to severe earthquake damage.

Less than two weeks after the second-biggest earthquake in Mexico’s history, a second quake hit the capital, causing more than 200 deaths and toppling dozens of buildings.


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Harvey, Irma, Maria: This is the hurricane season scientists expected … and feared


After multiple intense hurricane landfalls this month, the scenes from the Caribbean have been horrific — trees stripped bare, houses flattened, million-dollar yachts strewn like toys.


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Trump’s policies put the most vulnerable Americans in danger.

A new report from the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, a group of academics and nonprofit professionals, finds that over the past eight months, the new president has amplified risks to the country’s environmentally disadvantaged people and torn down some hard-won protections.


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Houston was built for cars. What happens when Harvey destroys 250,000 vehicles?

Three weeks after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas with the worst rainfall event in U.S. history, many low-income residents are still stuck at home, unable to afford a replacement vehicle and get back to work.


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While hurricanes struck, Scott Pruitt was up to some interesting activities


This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.


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Hurricane Maria poses a catastrophic threat to the Caribbean


The already miserable hurricane season is about to get worse, as Hurricane Maria barrels toward a storm-weary Caribbean.


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California rewrites the GOP’s climate playbook


For the past decade, Democrats hoping to pass a big climate law have played Charlie Brown to the Republicans’ Lucy.


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World hunger rises after decades of decline.

The number of hungry people in the world grew to 815 million in 2016. That’s up by 38 million from the previous year, according to a new report from the United Nations.


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