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LATEST NEWS FROM THE NETWORK
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Rivers are the West’s largest source of clean energy. What happens when drought strikes?
April 26, 2024
With rivers across the West running low, utilities must get creative if they are to meet demand without increasing emissions.
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The massive copper mine that could test the limits of religious freedom
March 19, 2024
To fight climate change, the world needs copper. The third largest deposit on the planet is in Arizona, a site the San Carlos Apache say is “like Mount Sinai to us.”
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FBI sent several informants to Standing Rock protests, court documents show
March 15, 2024
Up to 10 informants managed by the FBI were embedded in anti-pipeline resistance camps near the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation at the height of mass protests against the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016. Until now, the existence of only one other federal informant in the camps had been confirmed.
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With limited resources, an Oregon town plans for climate change
February 18, 2024
Among rural communities, Grants Pass, Oregon, has notched an unlikely win: a sustainability plan. But lack of dedicated staff and resources to secure federal grant funds threaten its success.
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Misplaced Trust
February 07, 2024
Stolen Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system. Climate change is its legacy.
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Top 5 takeaways of our investigation into state trust lands
February 07, 2024
A Grist investigation reveals how 14 public universities continue to benefit from extractive industries on stolen Indigenous land.
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Inside the last-ditch effort to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline
January 16, 2024
The project is over budget and behind schedule, with a lot of hard work left to do. Its opponents hope that makes fossil fuel companies think twice about building the next one.
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A huge EV factory is coming to west Tennessee. Here’s how locals are ensuring they benefit.
December 18, 2023
Communities are using an organizing tool intended for sports stadiums to bargain with energy transition projects for labor standards and affordable housing.
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The best forest managers? Indigenous peoples, study says.
December 04, 2023
Scientists suggest that long term, local governance is the best way to save forests.
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How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by-region guide.
November 14, 2023
The U.S. government’s most comprehensive report on the effects of climate change details challenges for every part of the country.
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How Florida farm workers are protecting themselves from extreme heat
October 27, 2023
Protecting the people who pick your food is as easy as giving them shade and water.
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In Photos: This small Midwestern town still crowns its Coal Queen
October 04, 2023
Coal was everything for Marissa, Illinois. What happens when a community is centered on a fossil fuel?
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How does climate change threaten your neighborhood? A new map has the details.
October 02, 2023
All 10 of the country’s most at-risk counties are in the South, according to the Climate Vulnerability Index, and half of them are in Louisiana.
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Dianne Feinstein dies, leaving a complicated legacy on climate issues
September 29, 2023
The California senator fought for conservation but drew criticism for rebuking the Green New Deal.
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Virginia is bailing on a carbon cap-and-invest program. Activists say that might be illegal.
August 28, 2023
Proceeds from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, pay for a state program that makes hundreds of millions of dollars available for disaster risk analysis and mitigation. The fund is now in doubt because Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin wants to withdraw from the multi-state effort.
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