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A Solution to America’s Aluminum Crunch Is Hiding in Our Landfills

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A global supply shortage and US tariffs have roiled the aluminum market this year, putting greater pressure on the United States to produce more of its own metal. Plans to build or reopen giant smelters are moving forward, but they all…

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EU Nears Securitization Reform in Bid to Unleash BillionsThe European Union reached a provisional agreement to overhaul rules governing the bloc’s securitization markets, a deal that would unleash billions of euros to finance initiatives in key areas such as defense and climate resilience.

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Trump’s America is now the biggest obstacle to stopping a worldwide disaster: expertPresident Donald Trump’s pro-fossil fuel agenda not only is “ making everyone’s lives more expensive ” but also is expected to have deadly and destructive consequences far beyond the borders of the United States , as made clear in a global emissions report released Wednesday. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) put out “ The Emissions Gap…

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UN Report Shows How Killing Progress on Climate Pollution Is 'Trump's Real Legacy'President Donald Trump's pro-fossil fuel agenda not only is " making everyone's lives more expensive " but also is expected to have deadly and destructive consequences far beyond the borders of the United States, as made clear in a global emissions report released Wednesday. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) put out " The Emissions Gap Report…

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'Absolutely Maddening': UK Approves Jackdaw Gas Drilling in North SeaWith drilling in the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea set to go forward following the United Kingdom's approval, announced on Wednesday, climate groups and progressive lawmakers demanded to know how Prime Minister Andy Burnham could declare the decision a "pragmatic" one, considering the meager job growth and energy savings and massive climate damage…

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'Batshit Insane': As Extreme Weather Worsens, Trump's FEMA Head Tells States to Prepare to Handle Disasters on Their OwnAs the climate crisis intensifies extreme weather events, President Donald Trump's head of federal disaster relief sent a stark message to states on Tuesday: You're on your own. Politico reported that Cameron Hamilton, the administrator of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), told state officials at the National Emergency Management…

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At Cadillac Mountain, a missing Wabanaki marker and the fight over what national parks should tellSigns and exhibits about slavery, climate change, and Native Americans have been removed from national parks across the country as part of the Trump administration’s campaign to eliminate what it calls disparaging material

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Democrat Running Surprisingly Close Race In Deep Red State Says He Supports Parts Of Green New Deal‘No, I don’t support the Green New Deal. Parts of it, yes’

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A Warming Climate Is All Over Alaska’s Senate Race. The Candidates Hardly Mention It.If you listen to the candidates running for the U.S. Senate seat in Alaska, some of the biggest issues in the race revolve around the state’s fisheries, its oil and gas development and soaring prices for fuel and other staples. Left largely unsaid, however, is that climate change is playing a role in at least […]

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Finns Are Seething After Google Illegally Toppled 250,000 Trees for a Data CenterThis story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter-million trees occupied the 815 acres of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all […]

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California’s carbon market changed this year, and the next governor will inherit the falloutSteve Hilton would suspend California’s carbon market. Xavier Becerra’s campaign hasn’t said what it would do.

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How the Global Climate Fiasco Fueled France’s Student RevoltThis story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. By the time Cléo made it to Greek class, she had gone completely pale. It was a Wednesday in June during France’s second consecutive heat wave this year, and the 16-year-old was struggling to cope with the rising temperatures. She […]

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Trump’s SEC is Threatening Big Investors That Pushed ExxonMobil on Climate RiskThis story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Securities and Exchange Commission issued an unusual warning this week to the country’s largest asset managers and a climate-focused investor group over their roles in a 2021 campaign that replaced board directors at…

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Trump Tried to Defund Them, But Green Banks Keep Financing Clean Energy ProjectsThis story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A community solar project built for New Orleans’ oldest historically Black Catholic order of nuns. An all-electric affordable housing complex in Salt Lake City. A program offering low-income Maryland households inexpensive loans for…

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Flávio Bolsonaro’s Advance in Brazil’s Election Is Grim News for the ClimateThis story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More fire, more ash, more crime, more death. And a globally important ecosystem driven ever more rapidly towards a point of no return. That is the prospect for the Amazon rainforest for at least the next four years if Flávio Bolsonaro…

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A Federal Judge Slams the Brakes on Big Bend Border Wall ConstructionThis story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Federal Judge Kathleen Cardone granted a preliminary injunction Friday to halt construction on the border wall in Texas’ expansive Big Bend sector, including the national and state parks. Cardone read a brief order from the bench…

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Trump Has Largely Deprived the US Public of a Voice on Environmental PolicyThis story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Public participation is a hallmark of environmental regulation, embedded in every major environmental statute enacted over the past half-century. Yet the Trump administration has systematically sought to curtail public input into the…

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Finns Are Seething After Google Illegally Toppled 250,000 Trees for a Data CenterThis story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter-million trees occupied the 815 acres of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all […]

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