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Associated Press reporter covering climate and environmental issues. Formerly @indystar, @flintjournal. Share tips: https://xitter.cf/t.co/Hxt9Wz30Ok

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Climate Week talks balance hope for clean energy against uncertainty over artificial intelligence apnews.com/article/climate-c…

Climate Week talks balance hope for clean energy against uncertainty over artificial intelligence

World and business leaders this week will grapple with the urgent costs of climate change. Experts say the rise of artificial intelligence and data centers, which consume a lot of energy, and higher...

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E.P.A. Expected to Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants nytimes.com/2026/09/13/clima… via @NYTimes

E.P.A. Erases Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants

Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.

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With no time to spare, Michigan hatches a Great Lakes whitefish rescue plan - Bridge Michigan

With little time left to avert a population collapse, officials plan to pluck whitefish from the mussel-infested Great Lakes and raise their offspring in hatcheries.

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In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed apnews.com/article/climate-c…

In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed

Scientists and investors are restoring a 23-square-mile tract of peatland in North Carolina to help curb climate-warming emissions and restore native habitat.

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Former NOAA Employees Revive Climate Site Shut by Trump Administration nytimes.com/2026/06/23/clima… via @NYTimes

Former NOAA Employees Revive Climate Site Shut by Trump Administration

The database of federal global warming research recreates a website that was closed amid the administration’s broad retreat from climate science.

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El Nino is here and scientists fear it'll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires apnews.com/article/el-nino-c…

El Nino is here and scientists fear it'll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires

U.S. meteorologists say an El Nino has formed. That's the natural warming of parts of the Pacific that changes weather around the globe.

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FACT FOCUS: Trump distorts recent revisions of scientific projections of global warming apnews.com/article/trump-cli…

FACT FOCUS: Trump distorts recent revisions of scientific projections of global warming

President Donald Trump blasted the accuracy of scientists' global warming projections in a social media post that itself painted a distorted view of the science, projections and policy of climate...

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Global warming doesn’t just mess with humans, polar bears and other critters. Climate change will push tens of thousand of plant species to extinction by century’s end, study says. apnews.com/article/plants-ex…

Scientists say don't forget about plants. Climate change is endangering tens of thousands of species

Global warming extinctions usually have people picturing the last polar bears or other furry critters disappearing.

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Experts wonder 'Where is the CDC?' as a hantavirus outbreak unfolds on a cruise ship apnews.com/article/cdc-hanta…

Experts wonder 'Where is the CDC?' as a hantavirus outbreak unfolds on a cruise ship

Public health experts are questioning the U.S. government's response to the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship that involves Americans.

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Solar ranch in Tennessee aims to prove grazing cattle under the panels is a farmland win-win

A Tennessee solar developer is betting that cattle-grazing and solar panels can coexist — and benefit farmers as well as the electric grid.

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Supreme Court rules for Michigan in its fight to shut down an aging energy pipeline apnews.com/article/supreme-c…

Supreme Court rules for Michigan in its fight to shut down an aging energy pipeline

The Supreme Court has sided with Michigan in ruling that the state’s lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an aging pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel will stay in state court.

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As the planet warms, scientists burn homes to figure out how to best protect them in wildfires apnews.com/article/climate-c…

As the planet warms, scientists burn homes to figure out how to best protect them in wildfires

Scientists are using controlled fires to study how to protect homes from wildfires. At a site in South Carolina, researchers burn down test houses to learn how different materials and designs can...

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EPA may ease regulation of chemical plastic recycling, and environmentalists worry apnews.com/article/plastics-…

EPA may ease regulation of chemical plastic recycling, and environmentalists worry

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the same strict air pollution standards as incinerators.

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States are struggling to meet their clean energy goals. Data centers are to blame apnews.com/article/ai-data-c…

States are struggling to meet their clean energy goals. Data centers are to blame

Nevada's largest utility company says it may not meet its 2030 clean energy goals due to the demands from data centers.

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As Trump throws lifeline to coal plants, critics warn of higher costs and health risks apnews.com/article/trump-cli…

Coal's fortunes shift as Trump uses orders and taxpayer money to keep plants operating

The Trump administration is using emergency powers and subsidies to keep U.S. coal plants running. Market analysts believe no coal plant closures are likely during President Donald Trump's term.

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Federal 'God Squad' exempts oil and gas drilling in the Gulf from endangered species rules apnews.com/article/endangere…

Trump officials exempt oil and gas drilling in the Gulf from endangered species rules

Trump administration officials are exempting oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act.

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The sea beneath Arctic and Antarctic ice holds many secrets. These scientists dive deep to find out apnews.com/article/climate-c…

The sea beneath Arctic and Antarctic ice holds many secrets. These scientists dive deep to find out

Scientists are learning to dive beneath polar ice to study the flora and fauna below. The Finnish Scientific Diving Academy has designed a program in northern Finland for participants to venture...

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Graphics show the scale of extreme heat hitting the US apnews.com/article/heat-reco…

Graphics show the scale of extreme heat hitting the US

Unusual March heat has pushed temperatures into record territory in parts of the West. More extremes are expected in the days ahead.

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The U.S. area hit by extreme weather in the past five years has doubled from 20 years ago, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Extremes Index which includes heat and cold waves, downpours and drought. apnews.com/article/heat-sout…

Records shattered as summer heat hits Southwest in March; 'This is what climate change looks like'

Scientists say a record-smashing March heat wave in the U.S. Southwest shows climate change is already driving more dangerous weather extremes.

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Oldest known whale recording could unlock mysteries of the ocean apnews.com/article/ocean-wha…

Oldest known whale recording could unlock mysteries of the ocean

Researchers say the discovery of the oldest known recordings of whale sounds could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate.

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