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"Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price."
"Last month, one of the nation’s top Republican donors became a flashpoint in a debate over the outsized power coal has in the state of Kentucky."
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"Environmentalists warn that a California Democrat’s bill “drives a bulldozer” through the state’s new law that protects imperiled Joshua trees from commercial development. But the lawmaker says his impoverished desert region desperately needs the economic boost."
"Florida gave up $3 million in federal grant funding and as much as $500 million more by declining to participate in a Biden administration program aimed at helping states address the human-caused emissions warming the global climate."
"The Pittsburgh corporation says its natural gas is saving the world, countering Russian aggression and solving the climate crisis. Numerous experts say that’s not true."
"President Joe Biden will add a combined 120,000 acres Thursday to a pair of national monuments in California at a White House ceremony, the administration announced."
"A Senate Budget Committee hearing Wednesday gave Democrats the chance to highlight new findings in an ongoing congressional investigation seeking to prove that major oil companies waged a decadeslong climate disinformation campaign."
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