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Mining law has barely changed since 1872. Can Congress agree on a fix?

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Sun rises over mountains as seen from the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California, United States on September 3, 2022. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Even with legal protections, extreme heat and wildfire take a toll on farmworkers

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Students taking a test (Getty Images/kali9)

Climate denial campaign goes retro with new textbook

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SunCor Energy Refinery in Denver, Colorado. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Oil refineries are polluting US waterways. Too often, it’s legal

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The Llipi pilot plant in Uyuni, south from La Paz, on August 17, 2015 (Getty/Aizar Raldes)

A zero emissions future without the mining boom

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A house is submerged in floodwaters from the Salinas River near Chualar, California, on January 12, 2023. (NIC COURY/AFP via Getty Images)

California’s storms are almost over. Its reckoning with flood insurance is about to begin

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Sunrise from South Colony Lake below Crestone Needle in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Westcliffe, Colorado. (Getty Images/Mike Berenson/Colorado Captures)

30×30 is conservation’s flashy new goal. Now countries need to figure out what it actually means

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. (Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Kentucky becomes the newest battleground in Republicans’ fight against green investing

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Oil pipelines, pumping rigs, and electrical transmission lines dot the landscape along California's "Petroleum Highway" (Highway 33) running along the northwestern side of the San Joaquin Valley on April 24, 2020, near McKittrick, California. (George Rose/Getty Images)

California passed a milestone law to stop neighborhood drilling. Big Oil launched a counterattack

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Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Getty Images)

Countries reach sweeping deal to protect nature

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Men up pole working on power lines (Getty Images)

PG&E cuts thousands of workers ahead of winter wildfire maintenance

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Participants in a demonstration at the UN Climate Summit COP27, including Luisa Neubauer (3rd from right), climate activist with the Fridays for Future movement, hold placards and advocate for the 1.5 degree Celsius global temperature rise target. (Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images)

COP27 is over. What did it achieve?

Blanca Begert, Emily Pontecorvo, Naveena Sadasivam
US President Joe Biden delivers a speech during the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly known as COP27, at the Sharm El Sheikh International Convention Centre, in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on November 11, 2022. (Mohamed Abdel Hamid/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Developing countries need trillions for climate action. Where will it come from?

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference at The Unity Council on May 10, 2021 in Oakland, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

How California’s initiative to fund electric vehicles went terribly wrong

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Brazilian former President (2003-2010) and candidate for the leftist Workers Party (PT) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva waves at supporters while leaving the polling station, during the presidential run-off election, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on October 30, 2022. (CARL DE SOUZA/AFP via Getty Images)

In Brazil, Lula vows to halt deforestation — but it won’t be easy

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Cities want more trees. Drought is complicating their efforts

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Officials from Para State, northern Brazil, inspect a deforested area in the Amazon rain forest during surveillance in the municipality of Pacaja, 620 km from the capital Belem, on September 22, 2021. (EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)

In Brazil’s presidential election, the fate of the Amazon is at stake

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Electric vehicles are displayed before a news conference with White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about the American Jobs Plan and to highlight electric vehicles at Union Station near Capitol Hill on April 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The electric vehicle boom could bring lithium mines back to North Carolina

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