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Democrats Are Shockingly Unprepared to Fight Climate Change
There’s no magic bill waiting in the wings—and no quick path to arriving at one.
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Stephane Mahe / Reuters France’s ‘Yellow Vest’ Protesters Aren’t Against Climate Action
Just because they oppose Emmanuel Macron’s proposed fuel-tax hike does not mean that the French activists will oppose any policy designed to fight climate change.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Democratic Party Wants to Make Climate Policy Exciting
After years of infighting, the Democrats may finally have found an environmental consensus in the Green New Deal.
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Benoit Tessier / Reuters It's Not Just America: Climate Policies Are Stumbling Worldwide
According to the UN, most major polluters are not on track to meet their Paris goals. But critics say that accounting may be too pessimistic.
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Noah Berger / Reuters A Grave Climate Warning, Buried on Black Friday
In a massive new report, federal scientists contradict President Trump and assert that climate change is an intensifying danger to the United States. Too bad it came out on a holiday.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters A Deadly Tsunami of Fire
California’s Camp Fire is still not contained, and the number of dead is still rising.
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Jonathan Ernst / Leah Millis / Alex Wong ... The New Politics of Climate Change
The dust is settling on the 2018 midterms—and no plan to fight global warming has emerged unscathed.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters The Simple Reason That Humans Can’t Control Wildfires
“The fire, to me—it’s like an ocean. It’s so strong that we don’t really stand a chance of doing much to it.”
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Eric Risberg / AP The Homeless Can’t Escape San Francisco’s Smoke-Ridden Air
As wildfires burn out of control, they are impacting the state’s other crisis—the growing number of people living on the streets.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters The Worst Is Yet to Come for California’s Wildfires
Two fires have left 31 people dead in the state. But even insurance companies think blazes will be bigger in just a few decades.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump’s Interference With Science Is Unprecedented
Experts say that key EPA proposals would meddle with the research process and endanger decades of protective health rules.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The GOP Just Lost Its Most Important Climate Moderates
Almost 20 Republican House members who seemed to care about climate change failed to win reelection.
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David Ryder / Reuters Washington State Likely Rejects a Historic Carbon Tax
If climate policy can’t win in the Evergreen State, can it win anywhere?
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NASA / RAMMB / CIRA Scattered Thunderstorms, With a Chance of Republicans
Even if Democrats win Tuesday’s midterm elections, research suggests that they’ll act more conservatively in Congress—and all because of the weather.
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David Ryder / Reuters The Ballot Question That Could Transform U.S. Climate Politics
An initiative in Washington State proposes the country’s first carbon fee—and applies the ethos of FDR to a global crisis.
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Jorge Duenes / Reuters The Trump Administration Flunked Its Math Homework
The administration’s clean-cars rollback is riddled with errors. In one case, it forgot to divide by four. In another, it accidentally deleted 700 billion miles of driving.
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David Gray / Reuters Change Is in the Air
A rule change at the EPA could have big consequences for how air pollution is regulated.
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Sergio Flores / Reuters How Facebook’s Chaotic Push Into Video Cost Hundreds of Journalists Their Jobs
As media companies tried to divine the desires of the world’s biggest platform, they fired writers and lost their way.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Slightly Revises His Views on Climate Change
Again.
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SevereStudios.com / AP Hurricane Michael’s Remarkable, Terrifying Run
The storm shocked forecasters by rapidly intensifying, and then remained strong for hours after landfall.
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Serena Auñón-Chancellor / NASA The Sudden, Shocking Growth of Hurricane Michael
In little more than a day, a Category 1 storm became a “worst-case scenario” Category 4.
