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"After Donald Trump asked the oil industry to contribute $1 billion to his presidential campaign in April, oil baron Harold Hamm immediately started working the phones."
"Tropical Storm Ernesto is edging closer to becoming a dangerous hurricane early Wednesday as it skirts Puerto Rico, unleashing flooding rainfall and heavy winds that could strike a sweeping blow to the island’s ailing power infrastructure."
"In Gaza, the sky is full of menace. As well as the missiles that rain down on schools and shelters, the brutal rays of the sun have made the summer unbearable for those struggling to survive in a ravaged landscape of ruins and rubble."
"The delicate balance of one of the planet’s largest natural systems for storing carbon depends on the humble black spruce tree."
"A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit from petrochemical manufacturers against an EPA rule that targets cancer-causing emissions from chemical plants."
"The Chilean industry’s expansion has drawn repeated challenges from environmentalists and Indigenous people of the region, and prompted calls for a moratorium."
"Vice President Kamala Harris has spent more than a decade advocating for Black, Hispanic and impoverished communities struggling with pollution — an insurgent segment of the environmental movement that never entirely warmed up to President Joe Biden."
"In the St. Charles Parish neighborhood, only a tall green chain-link fence stands between a block of homes and the future site of a facility that may, among other things, store carbon in efforts to limit planetary heating."
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday it will expand bird-flu testing of beef entering the food supply as part of its response to the ongoing outbreak among dairy cattle, adding that U.S. beef and dairy products remain safe to consume."
"Former President Trump on Monday night said climate change is not “the biggest threat” and claimed it would create “more oceanfront property.”
"More than 47,000 Europeans died from heat-related causes during 2023, the world’s hottest year on record, a new report in Nature Medicine has found."
"Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse."
"Greece's worst wildfire this year spread into the Athens suburbs on Monday, forcing hundreds of people to flee as it torched trees, homes and cars and choked busy roads with smoke and ash."
"The contest between Republican Dave McCormick and Democrat Bob Casey reveals the complicated politics of fracking in a battleground state."
"Drought-driven drinking water contamination is disproportionately affecting members of California’s Latino communities, a new study has found."
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