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Weather Extremes Wear Climate Change's Fingerprints
Communities across the globe got a sobering snapshot this week of what the future is likely to hold more of: extreme weather getting even more extreme thanks to climate change.Historic rainfall and...
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Coal Industry Fighting for Survival on 7 Fronts
Editor's note: This article is part a series of stories by InsideClimate News reporters exploring the future of the coal industry, Coal's Long Goodbye: Dispatches From the War on Carbon.When Duke...
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Bonn Climate Talks Aim to Build a Springboard to Paris, Not a Sinkhole
Six months from the start of a Paris conference where the United Nations hopes to complete a far-reaching deal on the climate crisis, negotiators meeting in Bonn, Germany this week and next are back to...
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Obama Picks Unknown Quantity to Head Pipeline Safety Agency
The nomination of Marie Therese Dominguez, President Obama's pick to lead the federal agency that oversees pipelines, was greeted with surprise and uncertainty by pipeline safety experts.Carl Weimer,...
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49 States Making Plans for EPA Carbon Rule—Even the Ones That Hate It
Editor's note: This article is part a series of stories by InsideClimate News reporters exploring the future of the coal industry, Coal's Long Goodbye.The Environmental Protection Agency's plans to...
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Global Warming's Great Hiatus Gets Another Debunking
The long-debated hiatus or pause in global warming, championed by climate denialists who tried to claim it proved scientists' projections on climate change are inaccurate or overblown, probably did not...
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Fracking Returns, but Denton Vows to Keep Fighting
Two weeks after Denton's fracking ban was rendered illegal by a sweeping new state law restricting local control of oil-and-gas activities, residents of the north Texas town are frustrated, upset and...
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Fracking Has Contaminated Drinking Water, EPA Now Concludes
After years of asserting that hydraulic fracturing has never tainted drinking water, the Obama administration issued a long-awaited study of the controversial oil and gas production technique that...
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Exxon's 25 Years of 'No:' A Timeline of Resolutions on Climate Change
Editor's note: This is the second of several articles on American oil companies and whether their track records on shareholder resolutions on climate change expose them to legal liabilities. Read the...
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Exxon's Gamble: 25 Years of Rejecting Shareholder Concerns on Climate Change
Editor's note: This is the first of several articles on American oil companies and whether their track records on shareholder resolutions on climate change expose them to legal liabilities.These...
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Weeks After Texas Oil Well Explosion, Families Still Can't Go Home
Several families remain displaced three weeks after an oil well exploded in Karnes County, Texas, and the true extent of the contamination is unknown.More than a dozen households were evacuated after...
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Enbridge Reaches First Settlement With Justice Dept Over 2010 Oil Spill
Enbridge Inc. has reached another settlement in connection with its massive oil pipeline spill into Michigan's Kalamazoo River five years ago. The Canadian company will pay nearly $4 million to fund...
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EPA Clean Power Plan Dodges Court Challenge—For Now
The Environmental Protection Agency won an easy, early victory in federal court on Tuesday over coal industry challenges to its forthcoming Clean Power Plan. The struggle over regulating carbon and...
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Scientists Band Together, Urge Canada to Stop Tar Sands Expansion
More than 100 North American scientists released a consensus statement on Wednesday concluding that mining in Canada's tar sands region is destroying the local environment, endangering the rights of...
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Willie Soon's Fossil Fuel-Funded Work Draws Ethics Review From Publisher
A scientific journal publisher that distributed studies of a climate skeptic whose work was financed by fossil fuel interests has launched an ethics investigation over undisclosed funding.The...
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Mass. Lawmakers Propose a $5 Billion Pension Fund Cleansing
BOSTON––It's not getting the fanfare of a less-ambitious California bill, but Massachusetts is in the midst of an even bolder divestment push, calling for the state's pension funds to completely rid...
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Plan for Fracking's Waste Pits Could Save Millions of Birds
In parched Jim Wells County, Texas, the glistening pits brimming with oil and gas waste appear to be an inviting refuge for birds seeking a hospitable place to find water and rest.But the pits offer...
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Current Climate Pledges Won't Prevent Dangerous Warming, Agency Says
Pledges made so far by Europe, the United States and China to cut greenhouse gas emissions aren't enough to keep global warming within safe limits, according to a new report by the International Energy...
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Virginia, Coal Country for Centuries, Now Embraces Carbon Regulations
Editor's note: This article is part a series of stories by InsideClimate News reporters exploring the future of the coal industry, Coal's Long Goodbye: Dispatches From the War on Carbon.Nestled on the...
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Pope Francis's Climate Encyclical: Next Comes the Hard Part
When Pope Francis releases his highly anticipated encyclical on global warming Thursday, titled "Laudato Si," or "Be Praised," he will call on nations to take immediate action to curb greenhouse gas...
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