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In addition to reducing carbon dioxide emissions, humans must reduce methane, hydrofluorocarbons, soot, and other short-lived climate pollutants to meet the 1.5°C Paris agreement goal.

Average gasoline prices reached yet another record high Monday, and the White House continues its scavenger hunt for ways to bring them down.

A lithium mining startup promised to make a rural pocket of North Carolina a clean-energy boomtown. But perceived slights and concerns over water have turned neighbors against the project.

Should ecosystems, animals, and natural objects have the same rights as human beings?

Flaming Gorge Reservoir is being drained as climate change spurs water shortages.

PJM, based outside Philadelphia, said the pause was needed to cope with the “unprecedented influx” of proposals to generate electric power.

Internal records show that state regulators struggle to keep up with the violations as “zombie” mines proliferate.

Internal records and emails show Kentucky regulators struggle to keep up with the violations as coal bankruptcies and “zombie” mines proliferate.

The landmark case involved a deceased woolly monkey named Estrellita

The United States is the world’s leader in the generation of plastic waste, nearly all from fossil fuels, and must develop a plan to curb its destructive impacts on the health of oceans and marine wildlife, concludes a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The U.S. should limit production of virgin plastics.