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1 week ago | motherjones.com | Dharna NoorBio |Dharna Noor

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The youth activists who put the Green New Deal on the political map are launching a new campaign to “villainize big oil” which will push for the industry to pay for climate action so the costs don’t fall on ordinary people.

1 week ago | motherjones.com | Dharna NoorBio |Dharna Noor

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claimed on Wednesday that its plan to eviscerate power plant pollution standards will save the US about $1 billion a year. In reality, though, this represents a starkly uneven trade-off, experts say.

2 weeks ago | motherjones.com | Dharna NoorBio |Dharna Noor

Donald Trump’s administration is set to claim planet-heating pollution spewing from US power plants is so globally insignificant it should be spared any sort of climate regulation. But, in fact, the volume of these emissions is stark—if the US power sector were a country, it would be the sixth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.

3 weeks ago | motherjones.com | Dharna NoorBio |Dharna Noor

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. David Cross is many things: a famed comic, an Emmy award winner, and a New York Times best-selling author. But he is not a climate scientist. That fact might make him the perfect person to communicate the urgency of global heating to mass audiences. “You’ve got to speak to people in a way they can understand,” he said.

1 month ago | motherjones.com | Dharna NoorBio |Dharna Noor

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US has “plenty of time” to solve the climate crisis,” the interior secretary, Doug Burgum, told a House committee on Tuesday.