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April 24, 2025

Attribution Science Could Help States Hold Polluters Accountable for Climate Damage

Multiple states, including New York and Vermont, have passed or are preparing Climate Change Superfund Acts, legislation which requires fossil fuel companies to pay into a fund to defray the […]

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April 9, 2025

How Hot Is Too Hot?

In Kim Stanley Robinson’s climate fiction novel The Ministry for the Future, the story begins during an extreme heat wave in India. Temperatures and humidity, together known as “wet bulb […]

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March 26, 2025

Metals & Minerals for Renewable Energy Projects: How Do Their Impacts Compare to Fossil Fuels?

Trade-offs: they’re unavoidable. As the world attempts to wean itself off its 100-year-long fossil fuel high, a new challenge arises. Batteries, solar panels and wind turbines all require mined materials […]

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March 13, 2025

Tariffs Could Drive Up Electricity Prices in New York

One of the commodities the US imports from Canada is clean electricity generated by hydropower, and states that are closest to the border, like New York and Minnesota, have entered […]

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February 20, 2025

Falling Costs of Solar Power Will Win the Day

If we lived in a more reasonable- some might say more sane- world, the need to adapt to a warming world would not be a political issue. Alas, we are […]

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February 5, 2025

Community Solar Is Thriving. It’s Also Endangered.

If there’s one thing that was made crystal clear this week, it’s that the new federal government is going to be hostile to renewable energy, despite all its obvious benefits. […]

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January 22, 2025

Solar One & Cooper Square Committee on NY’s Residential Solar Tax Credit

On Monday, City Limits published this Op-Ed by Solar One Senior Policy Manager Kate Selden and Cooper Square Committee’s Resiliency Coordinator and Housing Organizer Alex Lee, encouraging the expansion of […]

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January 9, 2025

“Whiplash Weather” & Climate Chaos Devastate Los Angeles

What happens when dry weather is closely followed by wet weather, which is then closely followed by windy weather? Devastating wildfires like the ones raging through neighborhoods in and around […]

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December 12, 2024

What Do We Owe to Future Generations?

In November, government leaders convened in Azerbaijan for COP 29, the international climate conference where the world’s nations are supposed to be applying themselves to addressing the climate crisis. As […]

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November 21, 2024

Wildfires in the Northeast: Unusual? Yes. Surprising? No.

Wildfires in the western United States have always been frequent seasonal occurrences, and in the past couple of years, fires have also erupted in the Pacific Northwest and in eastern […]

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