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May 26, 2023 | 12:06 PM

The Supreme Court has narrowed the scope of the Clean Water Act

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January 10, 2023 | 10:03 AM

Climate change makes heat waves, storms and droughts worse, climate report confirms

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Katherine Morgan wipes sweat from her forehead while walking to work in high temperatures on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, in Portland, Ore. People have headed to cooling centers as the Pacific Northwest began sweltering under another major, multiday heat wave.
July 7, 2022 | 11:37 AM

Researchers can now explain how climate change is affecting your weather

For some types of weather, it’s become possible to say exactly how much worse it was because of climate change.

By Rebecca Hersher/NPR
This Sept. 11, 2008, file photo shows Marathon Oil's refinery in Texas City, Texas.
June 27, 2022 | 10:26 AM

How a massive refinery shortage is contributing to high gas prices

Refining capacity in the U.S. is about one million barrels a day below what it was prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Brittany Cronin/NPR
FILE - Farmland is seen with solar panels from Cypress Creek Renewables, Oct. 28, 2021, in Thurmont, Md. President Joe Biden plans to invoke the Defense Production Act to increase U.S. manufacturing of solar panels while declaring a two-year tariff exemption on panels from Southeast Asia.
June 6, 2022 | 12:10 PM

Biden allows solar panel imports while also moving to boost domestic production

President Joe Biden’s administration announced solar panels will be allowed to be imported for two years without fear of steep retroactive tariffs

By Scott Detrow and Eric McDaniel/ NPR
April 4, 2022 | 1:35 PM

It’s not too late to stave off the climate crisis, U.N. report finds. Here’s how

The world still has time to avoid the most extreme dangers of climate change, but only if nations cut greenhouse gas pollution much faster from nearly every aspect of human activity

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A wind turbine is silhouetted against the sky at sunset Friday, Dec. 17, 2021, near Ellsworth, Kan. The 300-foot-tall turbine is among the 134 units comprising the Post Rock Wind Farm.
March 28, 2022 | 10:33 AM

Misinformation is derailing renewable energy projects across the United States

Misinformation in social media and elsewhere is derailing renewable energy projects across the United States

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PORTLAND, OR - JUNE 27: Portland residents fill a cooling center with a capacity of about 300 people at the Oregon Convention Center June 27, 2021 in Portland, Oregon. Record breaking temperatures lingered over the Northwest during a historic heatwave this weekend. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)
February 28, 2022 | 8:57 AM

Climate change puts billions of people in danger, U.N. report warns

Billions of people on every continent are suffering because of climate change, according to a major new United Nations report.

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An aerial image taken on January 24, 2022 shows storage tanks at the Chevron Products Company El Segundo Refinery adjacent to a neighborhood of homes at sunset in Manhattan Beach, California. - The oil refinery supplies motor vehicle fuels including gasoline and diesel to Southern California as well as jet fuel for aircraft at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
February 17, 2022 | 2:34 PM

Accusations of ‘greenwashing’ by big oil companies are well-founded, a new study finds

Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell aren’t taking concrete steps to live up to their pledges to transition to clean energy, new research has found.

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People embark a ferry during an evacuation from Kochyli beach as wildfire approaches near Limni village on the island of Evia, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Athens, Greece, Friday, Aug. 6, 2021. Thousands of people fled wildfires burning out of control in Greece and Turkey on Friday, including a major blaze just north of the Greek capital of Athens that claimed one life, as a protracted heat wave left forests tinder-dry and flames threatened populated areas and electricity installations.
Updated: August 19, 2021 | 10:56 am

A major report warns climate change is accelerating and humans must cut emissions now

The U.N. has released the most comprehensive global climate science report ever. It is unequivocal: Humans must stop burning fossil fuels or suffer catastrophic impacts.

By Rebecca Hersher/NPR
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