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Biden-Harris administration reportedly plans to approve Willow oil drilling...
The Biden-Harris administration will scale back but approve the proposed Willow Project on Alaska’s North Slope, the largest pending oil and gas development in the United States, according to reports...
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Washington is making important, long overdue investments in environmental equity
The passage of the Climate Commitment Act in 2021 was a historic moment in Washington’s efforts to address the devastating effects of climate damage. It sent a loud and clear message to those who have...
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The oil sands province of Alberta: Where extreme weather meets extreme politics
The political climate of Canada’s oil producing province is being upstaged by Mother Nature. Prolonged heat and lightning have produced a natural climate emergency with fires blackening the skies and...
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The Earth is warning us of the consequences of continued climate inaction....
Consequences of climate damage have hit home this spring, from waters of the Atlantic Ocean to boreal forests of Alberta to the Mariana Islands of the Pacific Ocean. As our politicians fiddle with...
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Sorry, local Republicans, but higher gas prices aren’t the winning issue you...
Local Republicans and their allies working at right wing think tanks have been on a tear these past few weeks about high gas prices, complaining about how Washington now has the highest prices in the...
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Canada’s TransMountain pipeline expansion: A hideous crime against the climate
Befitting its nickname of “the Great White North,” Canada has long been addicted to megaprojects: huge hydroelectric developments in northern Quebec, oilfields in Alberta, offshore drilling in rough...
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Earth is heating up faster than many models suggested while humanity...
During a sweltering summer of 1988, the year global warming first briefly surfaced as a national concern, I escaped a fetid District of Columbia for Three Capes on the Oregon Coast. After a long early...
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The Ostrich Effect: Right wingers threatened by reality are putting their...
When I was growing up during the Cold War, living with the specter of nuclear conflict, science fiction horror movies were a form of escapism from real-life dangers. “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”...
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Kamala Harris talks climate damage amidst a summer of record heat and extreme...
Vice President Kamala Harris took the president’s chair in the U.S. Senate a year ago and cast the tie-breaking vote for what Harris described Tuesday as “the largest climate investment in American...
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Canada can’t catch a break: Raging fires now threaten Yellowknife and...
A nightmarish, brutal year of wildfires keeps getting worse for Canadians. With a little over a month to go until the autumnal equinox, blazes are wreaking havoc across the country, with significant...
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As climate catastrophes envelop the world, it’s business as usual for fossil...
Incessant heat waves around the globe, especially in the northern hemisphere, that have led to hundreds of deaths in countries like the U.S. and India, including a thirty-one day streak of daily highs...
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Courageous young Montanans have just won an important legal victory for...
The mining and fossil fuel industries of Montana have spent decades knowingly committing sins against the planet and humankind. But a surprising state court ruling, last week in the Big Sky State, is...
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Amidst a record fire season, British Columbia tries to get ready for future...
With four hundred fires still burning across his province, British Columbia Premier David Eby surveyed damaged in interior B.C. on Monday and announced the formation of an expert task force on drought,...
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Canada’s TransMountain pipeline is turning into the WPPSS of the Great White...
All records are made to be broken, but never in wildest imagination could one imagine a Northwest cost debacle threatening to exceed the overruns, construction hitches, contractor shakeups and...
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