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From top-down to bottom-up: New directions for climate at Rio+20

A version of this article originally appeared on Real Climate Economics. In 2009, I published a book with Graciela Chichilnisky, Saving Kyoto, that argued passionately for preserving the economic and...

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U.S. leads the world in cutting CO2 emissions — so why aren’t we talking...

Contrary to popular belief, the U.S. is making progress on climate change. We have cut our carbon emissions more than any other country in the world in recent years — 7.7 percent since 2006. U.S....

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Obama could make climate progress internationally even if he’s hobbled at home

Photo by The White House. What are the possibilities and prospects for action on climate change if Barack Obama is reelected? Real talk: Obama will get very little done on climate or energy...

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California has a lot of kinks to work out on its ambitious new climate goal.

Last week, the state passed SB 32, new climate change legislation that’s a win for environmental justice and requires radical emissions cuts of 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. The goal is more...

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Seth Meyers: Eco-warrior?

Since we can’t get our politicians to talk about climate change, late-night TV hosts might just be the next best thing. Meyers, the host of Late Night, dedicated about eight minutes of his show Tuesday...

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Natural gas is passing coal as a source of CO2 emissions in the United States.

“Emissions from burning natural gas are expected to be 10 percent greater than those from coal in 2016, as electric companies rely more on power plants that run on natural gas than those that run on...

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Big Oil is backing Hillary Clinton. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Wall Street Journal reports the fossil fuel industry is donating twice as much to her campaign as it is to Donald Trump’s. At ExxonMobil, the company embroiled in a scandal over hiding its own...

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Obama brags about low gas prices, but he shouldn’t.

Speaking at a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, President Obama touted his economic record with the following riff: “More Americans are working. More have health insurance. Incomes are...

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States are already complying with the Clean Power Plan rules they are...

Reuters looked at the 27 states that are suing to block the EPA’s Clean Power Plan to limit carbon emissions from power plants and found that the majority of them are on track to meet their emissions...

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West Virginia’s governor wants a new subsidy for coal.

Jim Justice swapped parties in a highly publicized rally with President Trump. Now, he has a novel plan to prop up the dying coal industry: The federal government should pay power plants for every ton...

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Trump actually wants to enforce an environmental rule. A court says he can’t.

On Tuesday, a D.C. appeals court struck down an Obama-era restriction on the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), chemicals used in refrigerators and air conditioners that become greenhouse gases when...

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Trump is going easy on polluters.

According to a new study from the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project, the current presidential administration has collected fewer civil penalties and filed fewer environmental enforcement suits...

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Scott Pruitt doesn’t want to politicize science?

During a Thursday interview on a Texas radio show the EPA administrator said his agency wants objective science to buttress its mission. Sounds like something Pruitt and scientists can agree on, right?...

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An attempt to avert Trump’s interference in climate science might actually...

In a front-page story earlier this week, the New York Times seemingly had a huge scoop: Scientists were so worried that the Trump administration would tamper with their work, they preemptively shared...

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How can Pruitt sue himself? California wants to know.

The state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, filed a lawsuit on Friday to get the agency to say how it plans to handle Administrator Scott Pruitt’s potential conflicts of interest. Pruitt is now in...

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Trump wants to ignore the effects of climate change when permitting...

President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that he said will streamline the environmental review required to get large public construction efforts — like roads, bridges, and buildings — off the...

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The European Union is considering an electric car mandate.

After the United Kingdom and France joined the Netherlands and Norway in putting an end date on the sales of fossil fuel–powered cars, the E.U. may set wide-reaching requirements for electric vehicles....

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California went all-in on natural gas. Can it do the same with renewables?

Noemi Tungui lives in Oxnard, California, the so-called “Strawberry Capital of the World.” But Oxnard’s idyllic branding omits other details of its landscape: power plants, oil wells, and within the...

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Trump axed a federal climate panel, turning a blind eye to public safety

It’s no secret that President Trump has been busy trying to unravel nearly every part of President Obama’s climate legacy: our commitment to the Paris Agreement, the Clean Power Plan, and so much...

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Your future home could be in a flood zone — and no one’s required to tell you

Olga McKissic lives in an airy, white-brick home with a pillared porch, the kind where you might sit and watch fireflies late in the night. The only issue is that every few years, the rising waters...

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