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Emily Pontecorvo is a contributing writer from Grist.org.

A pall of smog lies over the Los Angeles skyline. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

“Orca,” the largest carbon removal facility to date, is up and running

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The sun sets behind power lines in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)

3 ways to prevent the next mass power outage

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Texas Capitol building (Mark Thompson/Getty Images)

More workers are dying from heat. Texas may make it harder to protect them

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British-Dutch oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell PLC sign , commonly known as Shell (Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Shell sponsored a museum exhibit on climate solutions. There were strings attached

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A pigeon flies over a Exxon mobil gas station (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images)

Corporate giants have been lobbying against their own emissions targets: report

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How Britain’s “build back better” plan went very, very wrong

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An offshore oil rig sits in the Gulf of Mexico near Grand Isle, Louisiana, June 12, 2010, as cleanup continues on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Corporate climate pledges earn failing grades from investors

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An employee poses with a pipe used to carrying liquid CO2 on September 08, 2008 at the "Schwarze Pumpe" ("Black Pump") power station run by Europe's biggest power company Vattenfall in Werder near Berlin. In a similar manner, Summit Carbon Solutions, a spinoff of an Iowa-based agricultural company, recently announced it is developing a $2 billion pipeline project that will carry carbon dioxide captured from ethanol refineries scattered across the Midwest to a site in North Dakota where it will be pumped thousands of feet underground. (MICHAEL URBAN/DDP/AFP via Getty Images)

A Midwest pipeline promises to return carbon dioxide to the ground

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The crisis in Texas underscores the deadly risks when the grid goes down

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Pumpjack at oil industry against cloudy sky during sunset in North Dakota, USA (Getty Images)

Oil companies don’t want to be known for oil anymore

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GREAT YARMOUTH, ENGLAND - JULY 19: The sun starts to rise behind Britain's largest offshore wind farm off the Great Yarmouth coastline on July 19, 2006 in Norfolk, England. The 30 turbines cost GBP75million and can generate enough power for 41,000 homes are seen by supporters as a clean and green way to generate electricity and a way of cutting down on harmful green house gas emmissions. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

We need to build a lot of wind turbines. Will Americans agree to live near them?

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GREAT YARMOUTH, ENGLAND - JULY 19: The sun starts to rise behind Britain's largest offshore wind farm off the Great Yarmouth coastline on July 19, 2006 in Norfolk, England. The 30 turbines cost GBP75million and can generate enough power for 41,000 homes are seen by supporters as a clean and green way to generate electricity and a way of cutting down on harmful green house gas emmissions. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

6 reasons 2020 wasn’t as bad for climate change as you thought

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Pumpjack at oil industry against cloudy sky during sunset in North Dakota, USA (Getty Images)

Inside the effort to plug hazardous oil and gas wells abandoned by companies

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Former Governor of Michigan & CNN Commentator Jennifer Granholm speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October 03, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by (Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Who’s Jennifer Granholm, Biden’s pick for energy secretary?

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Jeff Bezos, laughing at the world (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Jeff Bezos-backed projects will help track down missing emissions

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Presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks during a Voter Mobilization event at Riverside High School in Durham, North Carolina on October 18, 2020. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

How a Biden administration could push companies further on climate

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In swing states, Biden voters have climate anxiety. Trump voters don’t

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Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence participate in the vice presidential debate at the University of Utah on October 7, 2020 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The vice presidential candidates only meet once to debate before the general election on November 3. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Vice-Presidential debate: Pence and Harris play “not it” over fracking ban, Green New Deal

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Firefighters light backfires as they try to contain the Thomas wildfire which continues to burn in Ojai, California on December 9, 2017. Brutal winds that fueled southern California's firestorm finally began to ease Saturday, giving residents and firefighters hope for respite as the destructive toll of multiple blazes came into focus. / AFP PHOTO / MARK RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

Wildfires are getting worse. Will forests start to burn themselves out?

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Chuck Schumer (Getty/Win McNamee)

3 ways the Senate Democrats’ new climate plan is all about money

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Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders (Scott Olson/Getty Images/Salon)

The plan meant to unite Biden and Bernie voters on climate is finally here

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BP and Shell will keep (some of) it in the ground

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Debris lies around a damaged home in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian on September 10, 2019 in Grand Bahama, Bahamas. The official death toll has risen in the time since to 50 people, but authorities have cautioned that number is likely to rise significantly as workers make their way through the ruins. (Alejandro Granadillo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Hurricanes disproportionately harm communities of color. Why does TV news ignore that fact?

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Alabama Representative Mike Jones, House Judiciary Committee chair, looks on as Jack Sharman, House Judiciary Committee special council, speaks to the Alabama House Judiciary Committee during a hearing on Gov. Robert Bentley's impeachment Monday, April 10, 2017, in Montgomery, Ala. Alabama lawmakers began impeachment hearings for Bentley as they consider whether to try ousting the governor over accusations he used state resources to hide a relationship with a top aide. (Albert Cesare/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP, Pool) (AP)

Democracy on hold: States are canceling public meetings amid coronavirus crisis

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