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E.P.A. Makes It Easier for Cities to Keep Releasing Raw Sewage Into Rivers
The agency is allowing cities to delay or otherwise change federally imposed fixes to their sewer systems.
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Cities want to spend less money cleaning up their sewers. The E.P.A. is listening.
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To learn why sewage storage tunnels cost so much to build, @cflav went 10 stories beneath Washington, D.C.
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Greta Thunberg Joins Climate March on Her Last Day in Davos
Ms. Thunberg, who has been pressing world leaders to take urgent action to combat climate change, said she was not deterred by critics who called her concerns overblown.
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Asked how she felt about being belittled by senior American leaders, @gretathunberg said it had no effect on her.
“If we care about that, we wouldn’t be able to do what we do,” she said.
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Asked how she felt about being belittled by senior American leaders,
@gretathunberg said it had no effect on her.
“If we care about that, we wouldn’t be able to do what we do,” she said.
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Asked how she felt about being belittled by senior American leaders,
@gretathunberg said it had no effect on her.
“If we care about that, we wouldn’t be able to do what we do,” she said.
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Big Business Says It Will Tackle Climate Change, but Not How or When
In Davos, business leaders were newly vocal about the danger, though they gave few details about how they would reform their practices.
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In Davos, business leaders are speaking with a newfound urgency about the risks of climate change. But they gave few details about how they would change their business practices.
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Trump Eases Pollution Controls on Streams and Wetlands
The Trump administration has finished a new rule that roles back environmental controls on many wetlands and intermittent streams, delivering a win to rural landowners.
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President Trump completes new regulation that rolls back environmental protections on many wetlands and streams: “Farmers coalesced against the E.P.A. being able to come onto their land, and he’s delivering." nyti.ms/2v8zWMj by @CoralMDavenport
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Climate Change Could Cause the Next Financial Meltdown
The E.C.B., which meets Thursday, is among central banks trying to prepare for what a report warns could be a coming economic upheaval.
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“Climate change poses unprecedented challenges to human societies, and our community of central banks and supervisors cannot consider itself immune to the risks ahead of us.”
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‘Environmental Justice Is Not Merely a Box to Be Checked’
When concerns about a pipeline were dismissed by regulators, a rural black enclave went to court — and won.
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From @NYTOpinion: The longstanding pattern of environmental injustice against poor communities of color will continue as climate change threatens some Americans more than others.
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Things We Can Do: The Big Picture
Also this week, strange scenes at the Davos economic forum
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It's your weekly NYT Climate FWD: newsletter, with items on going beyond our regular "One thing you can do" feature, and Donald Trump vs. @gretathunberg at Davos. Why not subscribe?
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Making Yellow School Buses a Little More Green
Some school districts are replacing diesel buses with electric models to benefit students and the environment. But the change is expensive so utilities like Dominion Energy are helping offset the cost.
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Most school buses are yellow, but in some districts, with the changeover to electric vehicles, they're becoming more green
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Australia Ablaze? Craig Kelly Finds His Moment Mocking ‘Climate Alarmists’
Scroll through the Facebook page of Craig Kelly, a conservative politician, and you’ll see why the country has not taken strong action on climate change.
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As Australia fears it is being condemned to a fiery future by heat and drought, Craig Kelly, a conservative member of Parliament, has found a perfect time to ridicule "climate alarmists."
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Trump and the Teenager: A Climate Showdown at Davos
President Trump and Greta Thunberg dominated the first full day of the annual gathering of the rich and powerful in the Swiss Alps.
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“Planting trees is good of course,” @GretaThunberg said. “But it’s nowhere near enough of what is needed, and it cannot replace real mitigation or rewilding nature.”
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Davos 2020 - Averting a Climate Apocalypse
Averting a Climate Apocalypse Global emissions of carbon dioxide remain on course to rise above 1.5°C despite clear and present risks. How can business and g...
Why These Australia Fires Are Like Nothing We’ve Seen Before
More than 16 million acres have gone up in flames. And it has happened in populated areas, unlike most of the world’s other blazes of this scale.
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Until now, fires this large happened mostly in places like northern Canada or Siberia, where few people live and blazes burn largely uncontrolled
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Australian Coal Company Says Bush-Fire Smoke Is Slowing Production
The poor air quality is making equipment harder to operate, and some workers have had to take leave to fight fires. The irony was not lost on many in Australia.
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Australia's biggest coal miner, BHP, said coal output was down at one of its large mines. The reason? Smoke from the country’s ferocious wildfires — a crisis fed by climate change, which is caused in no small part by the burning of coal.
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The poor air quality is making coal mining equipment harder to operate, and some workers have had to take leave to fight fires. That the wildfire crisis is fed by climate change, which is caused in part by burning coal. was not lost on many in Australia.
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Australia's biggest coal miner, BHP, said coal output was down at one of its large mines. The reason? Smoke from the country’s ferocious wildfires — a crisis fed by climate change, which is caused in no small part by the burning of coal.
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Greta Thunberg’s Message at Davos Forum: ‘Our House Is Still on Fire’
The Swedish climate activist will accuse leaders of “empty words and promises” that will do little to avert a climate crisis, according to prepared remarks.
Climate Change Takes Center Stage in Davos
With businesses under pressure to act, solutions are emerging, but not fast enough, some participants fear.
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“These issues are becoming more real, more salient every day, whether you are talking about Venice or California or Australia or Jakarta," said Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia Group. "These are real events with enormous direct human and economic costs.”
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Conservative States Seek Billions to Brace for Disaster. (Just Don’t Call It Climate Change.)
A Trump administration program to help states prepare for natural disasters has become a window into the tortured political language of talking about climate change.
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The Trump administration is giving states billions of dollars to prepare for worsening natural disasters. Nobody has to say climate change.
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Yes, we need money to fight the effects of climate change.
No, we aren't going to call it climate change.
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Yes, we want you to give us money to fight the effects of climate change.
No, we aren't going to call it climate change.
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Court Quashes Youth Climate Change Case Against Government
Two of three judges on the panel said that climate change was an issue for lawmakers, not the courts.
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BREAKING: A federal appeals court has thrown out the landmark young people's climate lawsuit against the federal government, saying that the case presents issues for the political branches of government and not the courts.
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Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, called the decision “a disappointment but not a surprise," and said, “So for now, all three branches of the federal government are sitting on their hands as the planet burns.”
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Watching the Beach Town of My Childhood Burn
The beach town of Mallacoota is mythologized in my family as the place we returned to every summer. I visited again after it was ravaged by fire, to find devastation, resilience and a warning about climate change.
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To our reporter, it was a magical place of her childhood. Now, as her on the Australian wildfires takes her back there, she finds the scene apocalyptic.
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The $119 Billion Sea Wall That Could Defend New York … or Not
A six-mile-long barrier would help protect the city from floodwaters during fierce storms like Sandy, but critics say rising seas make the option inadequate.
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One possible downside: Trapped sewer sludge. “We’d essentially be sitting in a bathtub of our own excrement," says one skeptic.
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Reducing Fire, and Cutting Carbon Emissions, the Aboriginal Way
As blazes rage in southern Australia, Indigenous fire-prevention techniques that have sharply cut destructive bushfires in the north are drawing new attention.
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Could this be an answer for Australia's fiery future? Aboriginal fire-prevention methods are being held up as a model that could be adapted to save lives and homes.
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