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STONE RIDGE, VIRGINIA - JULY 17: In an aerial view, an Amazon Web Services data center is shown situated near single-family homes on July 17, 2024 in Stone Ridge, Virginia. Northern Virginia is the largest data center market in the world, according to a report this year cited in published accounts, but is facing headwinds from availability of land and electric power. ((Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images))

Amazon says it’s going “water positive” — but there’s a problem

Jake Bittle
LNG Tanker ASYA ENERGY sailing under the flag of Palau is moored off the coast of the Mediterranean port of Limassol. (Danil Shamkin/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The quick, quiet death of Biden’s natural gas export pause

Jake Bittle
Participants attend day thirteen of the UNFCCC COP28 Climate Conference on December 13, 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Fadel Dawod/Getty Images)

How an oil executive led the world to an agreement to ditch fossil fuels

Naveena Sadasivam, Jake Bittle
Hay is dried and stored at the Fondomonte alfalfa farm in Vicksburg, Arizona on Monday, June 27, 2023. (Caitlin O'Hara for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Arizona is evicting a Saudi alfalfa farm, but the thirsty crop isn’t going anywhere

Jake Bittle
View of the downtown Phoenix, Arizona city skyline as seen from South Mountain Park (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Can Phoenix grow without groundwater? Only if the price is right

Jake Bittle
Water levels are at a historic low at Lake Powell on April 5, 2022 in Page, Arizona. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

The water brokers

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Maine court recharges plan for embattled transmission line

Jake Bittle
Colorful sunset overlooking the Colorado River deep in the Grand Canyon (Dean Fikar/Getty Images)

Feds’ Colorado River choice: California’s rights or Arizona’s future?

Jake Bittle
Floodwaters cover a street in the reemerging Tulare Lake, in California’s Central Valley, on April 14, 2023 in Corcoran, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

The ghost of Tulare Lake returns, flooding California’s Central Valley

Jake Bittle
Locks are seen on the old Navajo Bridge over the Colorado River at Marble Canyon, Arizona, on August 31, 2022. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Supreme Court hears Navajo demands for Colorado River water rights

Jake Bittle, Maria Parazo Rose
Climate activists gather to protest demanding President Biden stop the Willow Project by unfurling a banner on Lafayette Square in front of the White House on January 10, 2023 in Washington D.C. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The dubious economic calculus behind the Willow project

Zoya Teirstein, Jake Bittle
In an aerial view, floodwaters cover an agricultural area after the Salinas River overflowed its banks on January 13, 2023 in Salinas, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

How rising temperatures are intensifying California’s atmospheric rivers

Jake Bittle
U.S. President Joe Biden (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden approves Willow oil project in Alaska despite campaign pledge

Jake Bittle
Working oil pumps against a sunset sky (Getty Images/imaginima)

Report: World’s fossil fuel subsidies surged to $1 trillion after Ukraine invasion

Jake Bittle
Wild salmon migrating upstream in the Columbia River, Oregon. (Getty Images/DaveAlan)

Are the feds sacrificing endangered salmon to help potato farmers?

Jake Bittle, B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster
A view of flood damaged buildings are seen as US President Joe Biden (not pictured) inspects the damage from Hurricane Ida onboard Marine One during an aerial tour of communities in Laffite, Grand Isle, Port Fourchon and Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, September 3, 2021. (JONATHAN ERNST/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

As Louisiana’s coast disappears, its historic communities are disappearing too

Jake Bittle
Water levels are at a historic low at Lake Powell on April 5, 2022 in Page, Arizona. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

There’s a deal to save the Colorado River — if California doesn’t blow it up

Jake Bittle
Sunset aerial view of downtown Stockton, California, USA. (Getty Images/MattGush)

California’s next flood could destroy one of its most diverse cities. Will lawmakers try to save it?

Jake Bittle
The facade of the New York Stock Exchange is seen in the New York financial district on Wall Street (Jeff Hutchens/Getty Images)

How vulnerable is Wall Street to climate change? The Fed wants to find out

Jake Bittle
Raindrops On Umbrella (Getty Images / Donat Photography / EyeEm)

Will California’s ‘atmospheric river’ storms end the drought?

Jake Bittle
Exhaust air rises from the chimneys of the Moorburg coal-fired power plant into the sky. (Christian Charisius/picture alliance via Getty Images)

US emissions rose in 2022. Here’s why that’s not as bad as it sounds

Jake Bittle
Tumbleweed rolls across a dried out landscape in central California's Kern County as trucks head south toward the Grapevine to begin the climb over the Tejon Pass leading into Southern California, on February 3, 2014. The United States government announced on February 5 a new system of regional hubs to tackle the effects of climate change as the country's southwest battles a historic drought. In January, California declared a state of emergency due to what could be the worst drought in a century for the state, and which has prompted fears of lost harvests and devastating forest fires. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Will California’s ‘atmospheric river’ storms end the drought?

Jake Bittle
Boat are partially submerged at a marina in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers, Florida, on September 29, 2022. (GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Republicans are coughing up billions of dollars to save Florida’s insurance market

Jake Bittle
Colorful sunset overlooking the Colorado River deep in the Grand Canyon (Dean Fikar/Getty Images)

Feds to Colorado River states: reduce water usage, or we will do it for you

Jake Bittle
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