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President Donald Trump’s bitter feud with various household appliances has landed his administration in court.
Brian Kahn
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Managing editor at Earther, writing about climate change, environmental justice, and, occasionally, my cat.
Dec 29
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The United Kingdom, birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, is now home to the wind energy revolution that’s…
Dec 23
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The weather forecast for South Florida is sunny with a chance of stunned iguanas. Miami faces its coldest Christmas…
Dec 21
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Slavery is rampant on fishing vessels around the world. Just how rampant, though, is an open question, given the…
Dec 21
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“Bipartisan climate policy” is a unicorn of phrases when it comes to Congress, let alone “bipartisan climate policy…
Dec 21
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On their own, each of the numerous weather calamities that befell the world in 2020 would be a crisis. But…
Dec 18
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We now know the core group of people who will implement President-elect Joe Biden’s climate agenda. While Biden has…
Dec 17
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Like most New Yorkers, I woke up this morning to lift my blind and see if the snow forecast had busted or not.…
Dec 16
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In its closing five weeks, the Trump administration is making some bold governance moves. No, it hasn’t suddenly…
Dec 15
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In March, Exxon CEO Darren Woods whined that other oil companies drafting climate plans were simply engaging in a…
Dec 14
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After months of late fall cosplaying as early fall, we’re finally jumping right into winter in the Northeast. A…
Dec 11
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For the past few weeks, the COVID Tracking Project’s graphs have haunted my Twitter feed with growing regularity. If…
Dec 11
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There are many ways to remember President Donald Trump’s environmental legacy, none of them good. But among his most…
Dec 9
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It’s portrait season in Washington, DC. The latest Trump official to get the official portrait treatment is…
Dec 9
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After an eight-year fight to get New York to divest its $226 billion pension fund from fossil fuels, activists have…
Dec 8
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Scientists have spent the past 15 years pulling together data about the Arctic into an annual report card. What’s…
Dec 7
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Two years later, we’re still adding unfortunate superlatives to the 2018 California wildfire season. The latest is a …
Dec 4
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The president took a break from his grifty attempt to blow up democracy under a cloud of flatulence to do more…
Dec 3
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President-elect Joe Biden has an unprecedented opportunity to walk the U.S.—and perhaps the world—back from the…
Dec 2
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On Tuesday, the blue-and-green sign that will sit atop Climate Pledge Arena rolled out to be placed atop the home of…