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Assessing the Threats Climate Change Poses to Outdoor Workers

A thousand kinds of crazy in a convulsing world

These companies should be paying for the long-term health and safety of these communities and these workers referring to the importance of establishing just transition community funds, akin to the Black Lung Program, paid for by excise tax on coal.

The House passed a bill that sounds good, but doesn’t end Washington's failed, militarized approach or get to root problems.

The first assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change in eight years will sound the alarm on soaring temperatures, rising seas and extreme weather.

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A shutdown would have devastating global impacts and must not be allowed to happen, researchers say

Hemp fuel and other biofuels could reduce carbon emissions while saving the electric grid, but they’re often overlooked for more expensive, high-tech climate solutions.

Last week, virtually every news outlet in the global North ignored a landmark meeting where leaders of low-income countries articulated their positions prior to the make-or-break United Nations COP26 climate summit in November.