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Exxon's Business Ambition Collided with Climate Change Under a Distant Sea
In 1980, as Exxon Corp. set out to develop one of the world's largest deposits of natural gas, it found itself facing an unfamiliar risk: the project would emit immense amounts of carbon dioxide,...
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Book Excerpt: 'Satellites in the High Country'
This excerpt is from Jason Mark's new book, “Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man.” (Island Press, 2015). Read also ICN's Q&A with the author.The day after the...
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Is Climate Change Ruining the Remaining Wild Places?
The word wilderness instantly conjures up images of untouched mountain ranges and preserved forests. But as society settles into what is increasingly being called the Human Age, or the Anthropocene,...
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The V20: Climate Change's Vulnerable Call for Financial Help
A new group consisting of countries severely threatened by climate change launched this week, putting a face on those most vulnerable to the climate crisis and highlighting their financial...
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Fracking Study Ties Water Contamination to Surface Spills
Residential water wells near Marcellus shale fracking in northeast Pennsylvania were more likely to contain higher levels of diesel-like chemicals, especially if the gas well had a history of...
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From a March to a Movement: Climate Events Stretch From Sea to Rising Sea
Activists across the U.S. will push for quick and aggressive climate action Wednesday by staging protests, collecting signatures, organizing panels and even floating 30 miles down the Missouri River...
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In Fracking Downturn, Sand Mining Opponents Not Slowing Down
The market that supplies special sand to oil and gas companies for fracking wells is down more than 50 percent from last year. But those opposing the sand industry for its threat to property values,...
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Fracking Studies Overwhelmingly Indicate Threats to Public Health
The vast majority of studies conclude that fracking worsens air quality, contaminates water sources and harms public health, according to a new review of scientific literature.More than 15 million...
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Federal Program Sends $15 Million to Help Coal Communities Adapt
The Obama administration announced Thursday it will invest nearly $15 million in helping coal communities in 12 states and tribal nations transition their economies away from the fossil fuel industry...
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Two U.S. Representatives Seek Justice Department Inquiry into Exxon
Two California congressmen have called on U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to open an investigation into whether ExxonMobil violated federal laws by "failing to disclose truthful information" about...
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A Lesson in Economics: California School District Goes Solar with Storage
A Southern California school district will soon become one of the first in the nation to get most of its electricity from on-campus solar panels and giant batteries.The Temecula Valley Unified School...
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Bill McKibben Wants Everyone to Know Why He's So Mad at Exxon
Climate activist Bill McKibben has already written editorials about recent revelations that ExxonMobil had deep knowledge of climate change as far back as the 1970s. He had taken to social media to...
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Trudeau Victory Ushers in Prospect of New Climate Era in Canada
After a stunning upset in Canada's parliamentary election Monday, the Conservative Party and Prime Minister Stephen Harper lost control of the government to the Liberal Party and its leader Justin...
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Sanders Calls for Investigation of ‘Potential Corporate Fraud’ by Exxon
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders asked the Department of Justice Tuesday to investigate ExxonMobil for sowing doubt about climate change after the company's own scientists had...
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Sink or Swim: How Carbon Cuts Will Affect Coastal Cities
Even if the Paris climate talks result in unprecedented carbon cuts, the greenhouse gas emissions already present in the atmosphere will lock in enough long-term warming to flood large areas of major...
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States Begin to Comply with Clean Power Plan, Even While Planning to Sue
While opponents wait for the Obama administration’s carbon regulations to become official before suing to block them, state environmental agencies have been busy studying compliance options.The Clean...
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Exxon Sowed Doubt About Climate Science for Decades by Stressing Uncertainty
As he wrapped up nine years as the federal government's chief scientist for global warming research, Michael MacCracken lashed out at ExxonMobil for opposing the advance of climate science.His own...
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California Faces a Future of Droughts Alternating with Floods
A warming climate coupled with more intense El Niño and La Niña events could cause twice as many droughts and three times as many floods in California by 2080, according to a study published Wednesday...
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Mexico Exhales, but Hurricane Highlights Weather’s New Extremes
Mexico breathed an extended sigh of relief that it was spared the expected fury of the strongest hurricane ever recorded after Hurricane Patricia weakened just before landfall on Friday. But the storm...
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Power Grid Remains Ill Prepared for Future Hurricanes, Study Shows
Three years after Hurricane Sandy devastated the East Coast, key electrical infrastructure remains vulnerable to flooding in major storms. A study released Tuesday by the Union of Concerned Scientists...
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