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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Luke Barratt |Andrew Witherspoon |Aliya Uteuova
Amazon, Microsoft and Google are operating datacentres that use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and are building many more, the non-profit investigatory organisation SourceMaterial and the Guardian have found. With Donald Trump pledging to support them, the three technology giants are planning hundreds of datacentres in the US and across the globe, with a potentially huge impact on populations already living with water scarcity.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Lauren Aratani |Lucy Swan |Ana Lucía González Paz |Aliya Uteuova
The US president’s announcement has caused market chaos and threatens a trade war and US recession
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Oliver Milman |Dharna Noor |Aliya Uteuova
Billions of dollars in clean energy spending and jobs have overwhelmingly flowed to parts of the US represented by Republican lawmakers. But these members of Congress are still largely reticent to break with Donald Trump’s demands to kill off key incentives for renewables, even as their districts bask in the rewards.
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1 month ago | 
rsn.org | Oliver Milman |Dharna Noor |Aliya Uteuova
Moves to roll back 31 pollution regulations risk public health and big annual healthcare savings, Guardian analysis showsA push by Donald Trump’s administration to repeal a barrage of clean air and water regulations may deal a severe blow to US public health, with a Guardian analysis finding that the targeted rules were set to save the lives of nearly 200,000 people in the years ahead.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Oliver Milman |Dharna Noor |Aliya Uteuova
A push by Donald Trump’s administration to repeal a barrage of clean air and water regulations may deal a severe blow to US public health, with a Guardian analysis finding that the targeted rules were set to save the lives of nearly 200,000 people in the years ahead.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Dominic Rushe |Aliya Uteuova
The annual Downtown on Ice festival is under way in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Ice sculptures are dotted around the city – there was little chance of them melting as an Arctic blast pulled temperatures down to 15F (-9C). Inside Boscov’s, a 100-year-old department store, Sue Sloan says she can’t wait for spring. The 60–year-old housekeeper says she’s also looking for other changes. “Everything is so expensive,” she says. “Food prices, eggs, meat, gas, electricity, everything. It’s terrible,” she says.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
msn.com | Oliver Milman |Aliya Uteuova
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Aliya Uteuova |Oliver Milman
The Biden administration has raced to allocate $74bn of funding for climate initiatives before Donald Trump’s inauguration, leaving $20bn vulnerable to potential rollback by the incoming president, new figures reveal. As the inauguration of Trump looms, the outgoing administration has been accelerating its allocation of cash for climate change and clean energy programs before they are throttled by the incoming US president.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Aliya Uteuova
Wildfires continue to ravage parts of New York and New Jersey, fueled by high winds and record low precipitation and, despite some rain over last weekend, there is no immediate relief in sight for the historic drought in the region, with ongoing dry conditions exacerbating the risk of spreading fires.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
msn.com | Aliya Uteuova |Dharna Noor
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