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‘Climate-Controlled’ Sausage? Courts Crack Down on ‘Greenwashing’
From airlines to pork sellers, corporate brands face legal and regulatory challenges for misleading the public with lofty climate claims.
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Wednesday Briefing
A landmark climate ruling in Europe.
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Switzerland’s Climate Shortfalls Violate Rights, European Court Rules
But the court ruled as inadmissible two other climate-related attempts to hold governments accountable.
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America’s Energy Needs and Climate Goals
More from our inbox: A ‘Workers Bridge’ for BaltimoreTrump and the $60 BibleCan Just Anyone Run?Flaco’s Cruel Fate Is Not Meant for BirdsA New Surge in Power Use Is Threatening U.S. Climate Goals A boom in data centers and factories is straining ...
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Court Temporarily Halts S.E.C.’s New Climate Rules
Two fracking companies had challenged requirements that some businesses disclose more information about the risks they face from climate change.
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U.S. Approves $500 Million for Bahrain Oil Project, Despite Opposition
The financing faced criticism that it doesn’t mesh with U.S. commitments on climate change. Earlier, two climate advisers had resigned over the plan.
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John Kerry: ‘I Feel Deeply Frustrated’
When former Secretary of State John Kerry stepped into a newly created post as America’s top climate diplomat in 2021, the reputation of the United States abroad was, in his words, “in the crapper,” and the pathway to meeting the world’s climate ...
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Weirdly Warm Winter Has Climate Fingerprints All Over It, Study Says
Recent heat waves in cities worldwide have the hallmarks of global warming, researchers said. And last month was the hottest February on record.
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Let’s Build a Climate Wall of Shame
Here is a proposal for the environmental movement: Pool philanthropic funds for a day, buy a small plot of land in Washington, D.C., and put up a tall marble wall to serve as a climate memorial. Carve on this memorial the names of public figures ...
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Just How Many People Will Die From Climate Change?
How deadly could climate change be? Last fall, in an idiosyncratic corner of the internet where I happen to spend a lot of time, an argument broke out about how to quantify and characterize the mortality impact of global warming. An activist named ...
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