Federal agencies have been padding their environmental stats with a strategy that’s too cheap, too carbon-heavy and too easy to make a difference.
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‘A Pretty Damning Critique:’ Google, Netflix and LinkedIn Wouldn’t Sign Onto Climate Action Ad
The ad’s backstory provides a rare moment of transparency in an ecosystem of advocacy organizations that are often too scared to talk openly about corporate partners.
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Can Our Climate Survive Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is hot – and it’s heating up the planet, too. Making bitcoin uses enormous amounts of power.
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A Texas Town Stopped an Energy Giant from Drilling Next to a Day Care. Then It Changed Its Mind.
Arlington’s experience shows how difficult it can be to stop greenhouse gas production – even when it’s putting children’s health at risk.
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Life in the drill zone
More than a decade ago, the U.S. made a big bet on natural gas as a path to reduced emissions and energy independence. But has that bet gone bad for communities – and the climate?
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Emission control
If we want to slow climate change, we have to slash methane pollution. Methane is heating up the planet and threatens the health of people who live near drill sites.
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Timber Wars
Thirty years ago, a fight over old-growth forests and the spotted owl forever transformed the way we see – and fight over – the natural world.
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The American divide
Reveal host Al Letson talks to a first-time voter, whose struggles reflect the divisions this country faces after a historic election.
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EPA science panel plows ahead with toxic chemical’s review, despite coronavirus crisis
Under White House pressure, the EPA ordered the panel to ignore the findings of its own scientists that the chemical TCE causes fetal heart defects.
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The refuge revealed
Oil rigs may soon be coming to the nation’s largest wildlife refuge. We find out what that could mean to the people who live there.