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    Detroit, Michigan, Residents picket DTE Energy, opposing the electric utility's plan to provide power for a proposed $7 billion data center in rural Michigan.

    A grassroots NIMBY revolt is turning voters in Republican strongholds against the AI data-center boom

    “It’s like the Gilded Age, part two,” Kerwin Olson, a leader of an anti-data center activist group, said. “Only bigger.”

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    December 16, 2025

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    Bill Gates gets real about climate change: Planting trees is ‘complete nonsense’ but the end of the oil and gas era is finally in sight

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    JPMorgan’s energy guru warns oil prices are headed to $100 per barrel. ‘Put your seatbelts on, it’s going to be a very volatile supercycle’
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    JPMorgan’s energy guru warns oil prices are headed to $100 per barrel. ‘Put your seatbelts on, it’s going to be a very volatile supercycle’

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    Beer could run low as climate crisis decimates Europe’s barley crops, warns the CEO of Japanese brewer Asahi
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    Beer could run low as climate crisis decimates Europe’s barley crops, warns the CEO of Japanese brewer Asahi

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    East Palestine derailment
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    Biden to federal government: Hold Norfolk Southern accountable for the East Palestine derailment

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
    September 21, 2023
    Biden will use his executive power to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps green jobs training program
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    Biden will use his executive power to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps green jobs training program

    By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
    September 21, 2023
    Bill Gates
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    Bill Gates sees ‘a lot of climate exaggeration’ out there: ‘The climate is not the end of the planet. So the planet is going to be fine’

    By Seth Borenstein, Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
    September 20, 2023
    The age of the city has not ended–but its inequality is fueling the backlash against metropolitan elites
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    The age of the city has not ended–but its inequality is fueling the backlash against metropolitan elites

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    September 20, 2023
    Banco do Brasil CEO: ‘Brazil is responsible for half of the Amazon rainforest. Here’s how we’re finding the money to save it’
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    Banco do Brasil CEO: ‘Brazil is responsible for half of the Amazon rainforest. Here’s how we’re finding the money to save it’

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    September 20, 2023
    California orders Arrowhead bottled water to stop drawing from mountain springs it’s used for more than a century
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    California orders Arrowhead bottled water to stop drawing from mountain springs it’s used for more than a century

    By Adam Beam, Amy Taxin and The Associated Press
    September 20, 2023
    Antonio Guterres
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    UN chief sees a world ‘becoming unhinged’ and a completely absent leadership: ‘we seem incapable of coming together to respond’

    By Edith M. Lederer and The Associated Press
    September 19, 2023
    COP 28 president: ‘It’s time to transform climate finance–and bridge its $2.4 trillion gap’
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    COP 28 president: ‘It’s time to transform climate finance–and bridge its $2.4 trillion gap’

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    September 19, 2023
    Norfolk Southern to pay Ohio town residents for any lost home value after a train crash and resulting health worries decimated the local economy
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    Norfolk Southern to pay Ohio town residents for any lost home value after a train crash and resulting health worries decimated the local economy

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
    September 19, 2023
    March to End Fossil Fuels
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    Gen Z New Yorkers are furious with the UN: ‘If you do not want the blood of my generation to be on your hands, end fossil fuels’

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
    September 18, 2023
    New York flooded by tens of thousands of climate protesters pushing Biden to stop approving new oil and gas projects and end current ones
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    New York flooded by tens of thousands of climate protesters pushing Biden to stop approving new oil and gas projects and end current ones

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
    September 18, 2023
    California Gov. Newsom will sign laws that require big companies to report greenhouse gas emissions: business travel will be included
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    California Gov. Newsom will sign laws that require big companies to report greenhouse gas emissions: business travel will be included

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    September 18, 2023
    Farmers who have watched drought scorch their fields now face a low Mississippi River—and higher transport prices 
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    Farmers who have watched drought scorch their fields now face a low Mississippi River—and higher transport prices 

    By Scott McFettridge and The Associated Press
    September 17, 2023
    California sues oil giants for downplaying fossil fuel risks and deceiving the public as climate catastrophes mount
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    California sues oil giants for downplaying fossil fuel risks and deceiving the public as climate catastrophes mount

    By Alicia Diaz and Bloomberg
    September 16, 2023
    The airline industry relies on business travel for as much as 75% of its revenues on some flights, giving companies unique leverage to transform it
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    The airline industry relies on business travel for as much as 75% of its revenues on some flights, giving companies unique leverage to transform it

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    September 15, 2023
    Explosion at the world’s largest railyard in Nebraska releases ‘heavy toxic smoke’, triggering evacuations
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    Explosion at the world’s largest railyard in Nebraska releases ‘heavy toxic smoke’, triggering evacuations

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
    September 15, 2023
    Starbucks wants to eliminate its disposable cups by 2030—but last year only 1.2% of its sales were in reusable ones
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    Starbucks wants to eliminate its disposable cups by 2030—but last year only 1.2% of its sales were in reusable ones

    By Peter Prengaman and The Associated Press
    September 15, 2023
    Flooded New Orleans
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    Louisiana says if residents were forced to pay the true cost of flood protection, few would live there

    By Kevin McGill and The Associated Press
    September 14, 2023
    New York real estate flood
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    New York looks to close loophole that allows home sellers to pay $500 fee to avoid disclosing flood risk, lead paint and asbestos

    By Mary Conlon, Anthony Izaguirre and The Associated Press
    September 14, 2023
    Joe Biden, Jill Biden
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    The federal government is planting $1 billion worth of trees as part of Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act

    By Scott McFettridge and The Associated Press
    September 14, 2023
    Biden clean car emission rules are hitting a crucial test as Republican legal challenges go to appeals court
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    Biden clean car emission rules are hitting a crucial test as Republican legal challenges go to appeals court

    By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
    September 14, 2023
    Long shot of a swimmer in lower Manhattan
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    Why a 53-year-old Englishman spent a month swimming from upstate New York to the tip of Manhattan

    By Michael Hill, Ted Shaffrey and The Associated Press
    September 13, 2023
    Factory manufacturing plant with solos and smog into sky
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    Nuclear power’s U.S. comeback takes another step as shuttered Michigan plant signs contract to reopen

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    September 13, 2023
    Get ready to replace all your iPhone charging cables because Apple just officially killed the Lightning connector
    Environment

    Get ready to replace all your iPhone charging cables because Apple just officially killed the Lightning connector

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    September 12, 2023
    Hurricane Lee
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    Extreme rains are pounding New England so hard that hundreds are being evacuated and a 15-foot dam is in danger of collapse

    By Michael Casey, Kathy McCormack and The Associated Press
    September 12, 2023
    It takes a decade for climate solutions to scale–but that doesn’t have to be the case
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    It takes a decade for climate solutions to scale–but that doesn’t have to be the case

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    September 12, 2023
    South Dakota regulators shoot down request for carbon dioxide pipeline that was meant to be part of a $5.5bn, 2,000-mile network through 5 states
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    South Dakota regulators shoot down request for carbon dioxide pipeline that was meant to be part of a $5.5bn, 2,000-mile network through 5 states

    By Jack Dura and The Associated Press
    September 12, 2023

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