Climate
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Business
Dilemma on Wall Street: Short-Term Gain or Climate Benefit?
A team of economists recently analyzed 20 years of peer-reviewed research on the social cost of carbon, an estimate of the damage from climate change. They concluded that the average cost, adjusted for improved methods, is substantially higher than ...
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World
Vermont Takes On Big Oil. Will Other States Follow?
As extreme climate-driven weather events and rising seas savage infrastructure and human health, the costs to states grow. Expensive but necessary measures to fortify communities have been put off because money or political will is lacking. At the ...
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Business
Plans for an Ailing Forest Include Logging, and Some Are Suspicious
Officials in Oregon say they need to cut trees, including some healthy ones. The reaction shows how complex land management has become as forest health declines.
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Business
Big Oil’s Winning Streak Forces Activist Investors to Regroup
Climate-focused shareholders are rethinking their tactics ahead of this week’s annual meetings at Exxon Mobil and Chevron.
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World
Biden Underestimates How Much Black Americans Care About This Issue
Black voters will not only be a driving force in the 2024 elections; they will most likely be the driving force. Recent polls showed that roughly 20 percent of Black voters said they would probably vote for Donald Trump if the election were held ...
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World
America Is Losing the Green Tech Race to China
On May 14, President Biden announced a major escalation of the country’s emerging climate trade war with China, raising existing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to 100 percent — a unilateral quadrupling. A few days earlier, responding to reports ...
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Magazine
This Scientist Has an Antidote to Our Climate Delusions
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2018 report on global warming drastically changed the way many people thought — or felt — about the climate crisis. That report laid out, with grim clarity ...
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World
How 5 N.Y.C. Neighborhoods Are Struggling With Climate Change
How 5 N.Y.C. Neighborhoods Are Struggling With Climate Change New data projects are linking social issues with global warming. Here’s what that means for these New York communities. By Hilary Howard Photographs by Jade Doskow May 12, 2024Some of the ...
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World
I’m a Young Conservative, and I Want My Party to Lead the Fight Against Climate Change
Conservatives were once America’s environmental champions. Not that long ago, Republican presidents were carrying out the Clean Air and Water Acts, creating the Environmental Protection Agency, expanding the National Park System and even initiating ...
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World
On Earth Day, Biden Spotlights Climate Investments to Contrast With Republicans
President Biden announced $7 billion more for solar power projects and pointed to a new a climate work force as he tries to galvanize young voters.