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Price Gouging Is Everywhere — From EVs To Eggs And Presidential Golf Excursions

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Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 03:46:54 +0000

“I’ll lower your costs on Day 1,” candidate Donald J. Trump exclaimed. Instead, we’re experiencing price gouging and cuts to everyday services. In the same way that we’re not supposed to pay attention to the man behind the curtain in the White House, US residents aren’t expected to be able … [continued]

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Debunking The Myth: Hydrogen Isn’t Really A Clean Burning Fuel

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Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:08:48 +0000

Hydrogen is often celebrated as the fuel of the future, heralded as a perfect solution that emits no carbon dioxide (CO₂) when burned or utilized in fuel cells. Yet, while technically correct — hydrogen itself emits no carbon dioxide upon combustion — the framing of hydrogen as a fully ‘clean’ … [continued]

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Are We Imagining It, Or Were Winters Colder & Snowier When We Were Kids?

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Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:20:06 +0000

The blizzard of 1978 was fierce in New England. As an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut, it was a time for my roommates and me to stuff our bodies into as many layers of clothing as we owned, borrow a toboggan, and plod up the road to the liquor … [continued]

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Fighting for Breath: Wildfire Smoke, Climate Change, & the Urgency of Adaptation

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Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:55:28 +0000

Wildfire season is arriving earlier, lasting longer, and burning more intensely than ever before. Communities that once thought of wildfires as rare, late-summer events now find themselves choking on smoke as early as spring. Per FireSmoke.ca, there are over 200 wildfires burning in North America already, and it’s the beginning … [continued]

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Musk Mayhem Continues: Tesla Employee Fired For Freedom Of Speech Error

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Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:55:44 +0000

What happens if you work for Tesla and you voice your concerns about the CEO’s social media post that jokes about Nazism? You’re told to clean out your cubicle and never again let your shadow cross the gilded Tesla corporate threshold. It’s another example of Musk mayhem at work. Bantering … [continued]

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US Cultural Revolution: Bonfire of NASA, NOAA, EPA, CDC, & USDA Climate Programs

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Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:52:20 +0000

China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) was a decade-long political campaign led by Mao Zedong to reinforce communist ideology by purging capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society. One of its most devastating aspects was its assault on science and academia. Universities were shut down, intellectuals were persecuted, and scientific research was … [continued]

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Trump Wants To Kill NY Congestion Pricing — It Raised $48.6 Million In Tolls During Its First Month

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Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:26:37 +0000

Who would have thought that New York’s congestion pricing plan would raise $48.6 million in tolls during its first month? Clearly not President Donald J. Trump, who insists that the toll plan hurts local business. Trump has ordered the Department of Transportation to revoke New York’s federal congestion pricing authorization. … [continued]

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Why You Should Embrace A Climate Diet — A Podcast Interview

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Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2025 16:21:55 +0000

As a climate activist and writer, I chronicle decarbonization in its many forms. I must be making some small headway in educating and informing others about the impacts of industrial agriculture on planetary health, for example, as I’ve started to be critiqued by media spaces such as Feedstuffs. They decry … [continued]

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A Program to Fix Climate Stress and Affect Positive Change

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Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 04:55:24 +0000

If you’ve ever felt a little climate anxiety, here is a program to help you not just cope, but thrive. We did this as a workshop in November, and I’ve been teaching this program for more than 2 years at events big and small. The results are great — not … [continued]

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