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June 20, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Last year saw the most killings of environmental activists on record.
June 17, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Green Lefties Are Grieving Over Sanders’s Loss. Can They Learn to Love Clinton?
May 16, 2016
Clayton Aldern
Donald Trump’s Energy Adviser Doesn’t Care Whether Climate Change Is Real
May 12, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Should We Respond to Climate Change Like We Did to WWII?
The controversial theory of "climate mobilization" says we should.
May 10, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Why Hillary Clinton Can’t Win in Coal Country
In West Virginia, Donald Trump is being hailed as the savior of coal jobs—while Clinton’s realism is dooming her.
April 29, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Why Methane Is Having a Moment
The greenhouse gas hasn't gotten the attention such a potent carbon-polluter deserves. But that's about to change.
April 26, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
The world is still living with the fallout from Chernobyl.
April 22, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Today’s signing of the Paris agreement has environmentalists split.
April 13, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
How the Democratic primary is pulling Clinton to the left on environmental justice.
April 11, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
New Yorkers don’t like fracking, and that’s a problem for Hillary Clinton.
April 11, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
The Rain Barrel Is Only the Beginning of the West’s Water Wars
Colorado is about to let residents collect rainwater, but the debate is far from over.
March 31, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
The Paris climate agreement just got one step closer to success.
March 30, 2016
Ben Adler
Is Bernie Sanders’s Nuclear Phaseout Plan a Hippie Pipe Dream or Smart Policy?
March 18, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Is It Game Over for Coal?
Market trends and new regulations spell the end for one of America's dominant sources of energy.
March 15, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
The Atlantic Coast is safe from drilling ... for now.
March 14, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Scientists say February’s high temperatures warrant a climate emergency.
March 11, 2016
Alex Shephard
Marco Rubio thinks “climate change” means “weather.”
March 10, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Obama and Trudeau just announced big climate initiatives for Canada and the United States.
March 10, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Karen Tumulty wasn’t buying Bernie’s “political revolution” answer on climate change.
March 4, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
We’ll Always Have Paris
The historic climate agreement struck in December has yet to be signed, and already has suffered one setback after another.

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