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News Articles: climate

Then-candidate Donald Trump at an October campaign event in Pennsylvania.

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  • Climate

As Trump vows to embrace fossil fuels, U.S. climate policy won't change quickly

President Trump's first weeks in office included executive orders that aim to stop or roll back former President Biden's ambitious climate agenda and redirect the country's attention to fossil fuels.

February 01, 2025
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By:
  • Jeff Brady
Winters are warming around the country, which gives rats more of an opportunity to search for food.

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  • Climate

Rats! Climate change is helping increase their populations in cities

Winters are getting warmer and shorter as the climate changes. That's helping rat populations grow in several U.S. cities.

January 31, 2025
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
A Powering Michigan display about electric vehicles and charging is shown at the 2025 Detroit Auto Show on Jan. 10. The Biden administration promoted electric vehicles through a range of policies, which the Trump administration is in the process of reversing.

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  • Business

Trump's pulling a U-turn on EVs, but not much has changed — yet

President Trump has charted a new course for electric vehicle policy in the U.S. While the direction is clear, the details aren't.

January 30, 2025
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
Forsyth Park after a snowfall in Savannah on Jan. 21, 2025 Credit: Justin Taylor/The Current GA

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  • News

Coastal Georgia snow likely a result, not a refutation of climate change

Last year was a hot one in Georgia but last week’s snow is not evidence we’re headed in a different direction, Georgia scientists say.

January 30, 2025
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By:
  • Mary Landers
High winds and dry vegetation set the stage for the explosive wildfires in Los Angeles. Scientists are finding that climate change fueled some of the extreme conditions.

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  • Climate

Here's how climate change fueled the Los Angeles fires

Extreme conditions helped fuel the fast-moving fires that destroyed thousands of homes. Scientists are working to figure out how climate change played a role in the disaster.

January 29, 2025
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
The EPA's acting director let go of members of two of the agency's influential advisory committees on Tuesday. In an email, James Payne said they could reapply for their positions.

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  • National

Why members of two of EPA's influential science advisory committees were let go

Acting EPA Administrator James Payne sent an email to members of the agency's Science Advisory Board and the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee informing them that both are being "reset."

January 29, 2025
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By:
  • Alejandra Borunda
A Trump executive order temporarily pauses leases and permits for onshore and offshore wind projects.

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  • Climate

Here's how Trump's pause on wind projects could threaten jobs and climate goals

A Trump executive order temporarily pauses leases and permits for offshore and onshore wind projects. Wind advocates say an offshore wind freeze could threaten states' climate goals and jobs.

January 27, 2025
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  • Julia Simon
The U.S. has accused an Israeli private investigator of orchestrating a hacking campaign that targeted American climate activists. Extradition hearings for the private investigator, Amit Forlit, were held at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London.

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  • Climate

The U.S. is trying to unravel a hacking plot that targeted climate activists

The U.S. claims the hacking was commissioned by a lobbying firm working on behalf of one of the world's biggest oil companies.

January 25, 2025
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By:
  • Michael Copley
Climate scientist Ben Hamlington works on understanding how climate change is affecting communities. Losing his house in the Eaton Fire has erased the line between his job and his life.

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  • Climate

This scientist studies climate change. Then the Los Angeles fire destroyed his home

Climate scientist Ben Hamlington works on understanding the impacts of climate change. Losing his house in the Eaton Fire has given that work new meaning.

January 24, 2025
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  • Lauren Sommer
Real estate sign left standing amidst smoldering ruins of Oct. 20, 1991 Oakland hills fire.

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  • Economy

This economist survived a wildfire. Now she's taking on California's insurance crisis

An economist's harrowing escape from fire, and her big ideas to rescue California from its insurance doom spiral.

January 23, 2025
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By:
  • Greg Rosalsky
President Donald Trump signed multiple executive orders after his inauguration on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. He also declared a national energy emergency.

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  • Climate

Trump's energy emergency is a gift to fossil fuel firms. It's likely headed to court

President Trump signed a "national energy emergency" that gives his administration new powers to boost fossil fuel development around the country.

January 22, 2025
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  • Jeff Brady
Firefighters clean up after the Eaton Fire in California. Health experts recommend wearing particle-filtering masks, goggles, gloves, and other personal protective equipment while cleaning up the potentially toxic ash and smoke after the burn.

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  • Climate

Cleaning up after the LA wildfires is dangerous. Here's how to protect yourself

The ash and debris created during the burns could be loaded with dangerous materials. Experts suggest taking care.

January 21, 2025
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By:
  • Alejandra Borunda
President Trump signed a slew of executive orders Monday after his inauguration, including an order to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement.

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  • Climate

Trump is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement (again), reversing U.S. climate policy

President Trump issued a barrage of orders Monday targeting Biden-era initiatives on global warming. The decisions come on the heels of the hottest year ever recorded.

January 21, 2025
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By:
  • Nate Perez and
  • Rachel Waldholz
An aerial view of oil storage containers near the Chevron Pasadena Refinery in June 2024 in Pasadena, Texas.  The U.S. is now the world's largest oil producer. President Trump says he is declaring a 'national energy emergency' as one of his first acts in office.

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  • Politics

Trump plans to declare a 'national energy emergency.' What does that mean?

President Trump is making energy a top priority on his first day in office, pledging to declare a national emergency – which no president has ever done before. The implications aren't clear.

January 20, 2025
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
Workers build an electrical substation for a new Facebook data center under construction on May 29, 2019 in Eagle Mountain, Utah.

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  • Climate

U.S. electricity demand is set to explode. That will make it harder to cut climate pollution

Analysts say the country will burn a lot more natural gas in the coming years to meet soaring electricity demand, potentially locking in decades of heat-trapping emissions.

January 18, 2025
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  • Michael Copley
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