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But critics caution that the efforts, as designed, cut off some historically Black and disadvantaged communities in South Baltimore from the promised benefits of shoreline restoration.

By Aman Azhar

BALTIMORE—Gravel crunched underfoot as Brad Rogers and Andrew Forbes stepped onto a narrow strip carved along a portion of the Patapsco River shoreline that’s slated to be a 9-acre tidal wetland.

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“Be prepared for flooding, heat, in ways that maybe you didn’t think of before and pay attention to those warnings—they can save your life.”

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine*, an interview by Aynsley O’Neill with meteorologist Sean Sublette.*

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In comments on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ draft environmental impact statement, the groups said the Corps did not adhere to federal law.

By Sarah Mattalian

Groups submitting comments on the latest stage of the Line 5 oil pipeline project in Michigan argue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has failed to complete adequate analyses of climate change impacts and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Secrecy around the project, including public officials bound by non-disclosure agreements, has left residents with more questions than answers.

By Lee Hedgepeth

BESSEMER, Ala.—Developers of a proposed hyperscale data center may find themselves lacking a resource essential for the operation of what would be one of the largest such facilities in the United States: water.

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A new report outlines how ERCOT’s transformation, increased load growth and extreme weather risks challenge Texas’ grid reliability.

By Arcelia Martin

Texas’ independent electric grid has transformed in recent years with the significant addition of wind, solar and battery storage facilities, and faces new risks as large load users like data centers request to be connected.

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San Francisco Bay Area Rep. Mark DeSaulnier said he’ll “fight like hell” to restore clean energy benefits and ensure government works for everyone.

By Liza Gross

A week after the Republican-led House sent its $4 trillion budget bill to President Donald Trump, California Rep. Mark DeSaulnier vowed to fight the most harmful provisions of what he and other Democrats are calling the Big Ugly Bill.

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Thirty years after a heat wave killed hundreds in Chicago, a sociologist explains how governments deflected blame after disasters then and now.

By Kiley Bense

In the aftermath of the catastrophic flooding in Texas last week, government officials from President Donald Trump to the governor of Texas to county representatives have sought to deflect blame and shift public focus away from questions of responsibility.

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The state’s vast farmlands sit atop an underground basin of rock that is ideal for some carbon dioxide storage, but legislators want to protect a valuable aquifer that provides water to hundreds of thousands of people.  

By Susan Cosier

A bill passed by the Illinois legislature could slow the growth of carbon sequestration proposals—and proposals, in particular, for projects located near an aquifer that is the sole source of drinking water in some communities.

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The small city of Minaçu is hoping to challenge China’s dominance in servicing the global appetite for minerals key to the green energy transition.

By Isabel Seta, Agência Pública and the Guardian

This report is a partnership between Agência Pública and the Guardian. Read it in Portuguese here.

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Such extreme variability is consistent with a warming climate that amplifies wet and dry air, intensifying both rain and drought—often in communities in close proximity to one another, as in the Texas Hill Country.

By Dylan Baddour

Long-term drought persists in Texas despite catastrophic flooding that hit parts of the state last week. The torrential rainfall, which killed at least 120 people, alleviated the dry spell in some areas and boosted dwindling reservoir levels, but it didn’t wash away a broader water supply problem.

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A new bipartisan bill speeds up the timeline for building new nuclear reactors in Wisconsin, which state leaders say will be key to powering new data centers.

By Carrie Klein

Nuclear power was one of the few zero-emissions electricity sources whose federal tax incentives remained mostly intact last week following President Donald Trump’s signing of a massive budget bill.

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Agrivoltaic solar arrays can shade crops from sun while moisture from vegetation cools the panels to increase their productivity, researchers and farmers have found.

By Tina Deines

“We were getting basil leaves the size of your palm,” University of Arizona researcher Greg Barron-Gafford said, describing some of the benefits he and his team have seen farming under solar panels in the Tucson desert.

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A pilot program on Dauphin Island, Alabama, aims to find out.

By Sydney Cromwell, Southern Science

This article was originally published by Southern Science.

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Neil Jacobs, who was embroiled in ‘Sharpiegate’ during the first Trump administration, says he supports proposed major cuts to the agency he would run but wouldn’t sign off on inaccurate information under political pressure.

By Georgina Gustin

After fatal weather-related disasters battered three states over the past week, President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the country’s top weather research agency told lawmakers Wednesday that he supports the administration’s calls to slash its budget—and he failed to directly acknowledge the impact of climate change on extreme weather.

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Plastics and their toxic chemicals endanger people, wildlife and the environment throughout their life cycle, they warn, calling for production caps in the U.N. treaty.

By Liza Gross

No place on Earth is safe from plastic pollution. Plastic garbage and tiny shards of these long-lived petroleum-based polymers taint the highest Himalayan mountains, deepest ocean trenches, outermost Antarctic field stations and hidden recesses of the human body.

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Through so-called natural language processing, AI can identify misinformation, track its spread and monitor the digital information landscape in real time. But it has its limits.

By Ryan Krugman

By the third day after the levees broke in August 2005, misinformation in New Orleans about lawlessness and looting was rampant. It became so pervasive that many recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina’s landfall were halted or delayed.

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Researchers found that nearly two thirds of the estimated 2,300 heat deaths resulted from global heating intensified by fossil fuel emissions, but worry that officials undercount heat mortalities.

By Bob Berwyn

Human-caused global warming increased the peak temperatures of an early summer heatwave across much of Europe by up to 7 degrees Fahrenheit and tripled the number of expected heat deaths in 12 European cities, an international team of scientists reported Tuesday during an online press conference.

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Scientists and environmentalists say such a decision harms human health and the environment, and is unnecessary.

By Jake Bolster

The Trump administration—ignoring decades of climate science and downward economic trends—has begun the process of reopening millions of acres of public land to coal mining in the Powder River Basin, the nation’s largest coal deposit.

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Floodwaters overtook entire cabins at Camp Mystic in Kerr County, where more than 20 campers and counselors died in a recent storm.

By Kiley Price

The deluge hit in the early morning hours of July 4.

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The order reiterates measures included in the recently passed budget reconciliation bill, leading renewable energy advocates to question its significance.

By Dan Gearino

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday that he said will “end taxpayer support for unaffordable and unreliable ‘green’ energy sources” such as wind and solar.

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Officials are reporting more than 100 fatalities in Kerr County, including 28 children.

By Arcelia Martin

Heavy rains over the weekend that pushed the Guadalupe River in Texas’ Hill Country to its second-highest height on record had by Tuesday resulted in more than 100 reported deaths, including 28 children from the all-girl Camp Mystic. But as search and rescue teams and volunteers sweep the banks of the river for missing people, the number of confirmed deaths is expected to grow.

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The tropical system dumped massive rain across central North Carolina on Sunday, days after the state’s Democratic governor vetoed a bill canceling an interim carbon reduction goal of 70 percent by 2030. GOP lawmakers will likely attempt an override.

By Lisa Sorg

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—Perched above the Bolin Creek Trail, 46,000 tons of coal ash appeared to be intact Monday afternoon, the mound’s slopes anchored by bushes and vines.

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Residents in the Shiloh Community have fought for years to remedy excessive stormwater runoff caused by an elevated highway. Now they’re suing.

By Lee Hedgepeth

SHILOH COMMUNITY, Ala.—Pastor Timothy Williams said he’s not giving up his fight for justice.

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In a feedback of fire and ice, thinning ice sheets over geologic hot spots could allow more eruptions, while increased volcanic activity may speed the meltdown.

By Bob Berwyn

Add to the long list of global warming concerns that melting ice caps could trigger more volcanic eruptions.

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With or without authority to regulate heightened tailpipe emissions, states plan to meet climate goals.

By Rambo Talabong

When President Donald Trump signed legislation to revoke California’s authority to enforce stricter tailpipe emissions standards and to ban sales of gas-powered cars by 2035, the effects rippled far beyond the Golden State.

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