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View In: Inside Climate NewsOn the second floor of a school building in Jamaica, Queens, New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection hosted a flood kit giveaway. It was a Tuesday evening in late July, just a couple weeks before the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season. Beth DeFalco, the department’s deputy commissione...

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View In: Inside Climate NewsThe Virtual Institute on Feedstocks of the Future, a collaboration between Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research and Schmidt Sciences, has awarded funding grants to five projects focusing on developing solutions to advance circular bio-economies with biomass feedstocks across the country. Project...

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View In: Inside Climate NewsWhen she was told that a federal judge’s ruling will effectively prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from pursuing civil rights claims against chemical manufacturers in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley,” local activist Tisha Taylor immediately thought of the Fifth Ward Elementary School. The 300-studen...

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View In: Inside Climate NewsAfter years of review, the U.S. Department of the Interior finalized a decision to retain protections for 28 million acres of public lands in Alaska.  The fate of these areas was previously in flux following a Trump-era effort to open them up to development, including oil and gas extraction. On Tuesday...

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Biden Administration Backs Plastic as Coal Replacement to Make Steel. One Critic Asks: ‘Have They Lost Their Minds?’

After a Pennsylvania business scored $182.6 million in loan guarantees with promises the project would fight climate change, environmentalists called on Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to change course

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View In: Inside Climate NewsAs global temperatures continue to rise at a dangerous rate, so does the number of air conditioning units in use. Researchers at the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Energy Engineering have been working for years on Department of Energy-funded projects to implement technologies tha...