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[TRENDING NEWS] Conclusiones clave de la COP 26

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Author: BY THE NEW YORK TIMES - Publish Date: November 16, 2021 at 12:59AM Los diplomáticos de casi 200 países acordaron en Glasgow que harían más para combatir el cambio climático y ayudar a las naciones vulnerables. También dejaron sin resolver algunas cuestiones críticas.

[TRENDING NEWS] 6 takeaways from the U.N. climate conference.

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Author: BY THE NEW YORK TIMES - Publish Date: November 14, 2021 at 04:51AM After running a day past its scheduled end date, COP26 ended with a signed agreement, though many called it disappointing.

[TRENDING NEWS] Cumbre climática de Glasgow: cinco claves de los primeros días

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Author: BY LISA FRIEDMAN - Publish Date: November 7, 2021 at 01:00AM Los líderes mundiales ya se marcharon de Glasgow. Ahora los negociadores deben trabajar para lograr que las promesas y metas medioambientales sean una realidad.

[TRENDING NEWS] G20 Nations Agree to New Limits on Coal-Burning Power Plants

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Author: BY SOMINI SENGUPTA, JASON HOROWITZ AND JIM TANKERSLEY - Publish Date: November 1, 2021 at 12:12AM The world’s largest economies will stop financing coal plants abroad, though that falls far short of what’s needed to fight climate change, raising fears of half-steps at this week’s U.N. summit.

[TRENDING NEWS] The COP26 Climate Talks Are Opening. Here’s What to Expect.

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Author: BY SOMINI SENGUPTA - Publish Date: October 31, 2021 at 02:00AM Some fundamental differences, including over money, divide the leaders heading to Glasgow. The outcome will determine, to a large extent, how humanity will survive on a hotter planet.

[TRENDING NEWS] Biden Crafts a Climate Plan B: Tax Credits, Regulation and State Action

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Author: BY CORAL DAVENPORT - Publish Date: October 23, 2021 at 12:02AM The new strategy could deeply cut greenhouse gases that are heating the planet but it will still face considerable political, logistical and legal hurdles.

[TRENDING NEWS] Fossil Fuel Drilling Plans Undermine Climate Pledges, U.N. Report Warns

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Author: BY BRAD PLUMER - Publish Date: October 20, 2021 at 11:59PM Countries are planning to produce more than twice as much oil, gas and coal through 2030 as would be needed if governments want to limit global warming to Paris Agreement goals.

[TRENDING NEWS] As Manchin Blocks Climate Plan, His State Can’t Hold Back Floods

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Author: BY CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE AND ERIN SCHAFF - Publish Date: October 18, 2021 at 12:56AM As the senator thwarts Democrats’ major push to reduce warming, new data shows West Virginia is more exposed to worsening floods than anywhere else in the country.

[TRENDING NEWS] Global Natural Gas Crunch Roils Consumers and Industry

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Author: BY STANLEY REED - Publish Date: October 2, 2021 at 01:07AM Rising demand for the fuel is sending electricity bills soaring and forcing factories to shut down.

[TRENDING NEWS] The E.P.A. will revise a Trump-era rule on toxic wastewater from coal plants.

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Author: BY LISA FRIEDMAN - Publish Date: July 27, 2021 at 12:46AM The agency said the changes will prevent lead, selenium and other toxic pollutants from contaminating waterways.

[TRENDING NEWS] Sailors Stranded for Months as China Refuses to Let Coal Ships Unload

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Author: BY YAN ZHUANG - Publish Date: December 26, 2020 at 05:00PM China is vague about why vessels that carried Australian coal to its ports can’t unload their cargo. “We’re all depressed; our mental health is deteriorating,” one sailor said.

[TRENDING NEWS] As Fires Rage, Australia Sees Its Leader as Missing in Action

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Author: BY LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA, JAMIE TARABAY AND ISABELLA KWAI - Publish Date: January 5, 2020 at 11:49AM The country is venting frustration with Prime Minister Scott Morrison over what many view as a nonchalant response to the disastrous blazes and his unwavering dismissal of climate change.

[TRENDING NEWS] Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hit a Record in 2019, Even as Coal Fades

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Author: BY BRAD PLUMER - Publish Date: December 4, 2019 at 07:00AM Global consumption of coal declined unexpectedly this year, but a surge in oil and gas pushed up greenhouse gas emissions over all.

[TRENDING NEWS] Blackjewel Coal Miners to Get Millions in Back Pay After Train Blockade

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Author: BY MIHIR ZAVERI - Publish Date: October 25, 2019 at 08:48AM Blackjewel went bankrupt in July and about 1,100 workers in central Appalachia lost several weeks of pay. In protest, coal miners blocked a train full of coal for months.

[TRENDING NEWS] E.P.A. Could Make Thousands of Pollution Deaths Vanish by Changing Its Math

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Author: LISA FRIEDMAN - Publish Date: May 20, 2019 at 07:00AM The Environmental Protection Agency plans to adopt a new method for projecting the future health risks of air pollution that experts have said is not scientifically sound.

[TRENDING NEWS] It Was Supposed to Be Australia’s Climate Change Election. What Happened?

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Author: DAMIEN CAVE - Publish Date: May 19, 2019 at 07:00AM On Saturday, in a result that stunned most analysts, voters re-elected the conservative coalition that has long resisted plans to sharply cut down on carbon emissions and coal.

[TRENDING NEWS] Horseman Rides Into Crowd of Anti-Coal Protesters in Australia, Injuring Woman

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Author: DAMIEN CAVE - Publish Date: April 28, 2019 at 07:00AM The woman was left unconscious Sunday at a protest held by environmentalists in a town near a proposed coal mine that could be one of the largest in the world.

[TRENDING NEWS] Judge Delivers Major Setback to Trump Policy to Increase Coal Mining on Federal Land

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Author: CORAL DAVENPORT - Publish Date: April 19, 2019 at 07:00AM The Interior Department acted illegally when it sought to lift an Obama-era moratorium on coal mining on public lands, a court found.

[TRENDING NEWS] They Grew Up Around Fossil Fuels. Now, Their Jobs Are in Renewables.

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Author: JOHN SCHWARTZ and BRANDON THIBODEAUX - Publish Date: March 26, 2019 at 07:00AM These are portraits of seven people working in wind and solar, industries their families hardly imagined they’d go into. But as one of them put it: “It’s not ideology. It’s just math.”

[TRENDING NEWS] Appalachia Is More Diverse Than You Think

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Author: ROBERT GIPE - Publish Date: March 15, 2019 at 07:00AM Beneath the pro-Trump sentiment is a region struggling to rebuild itself.