"A surge in new oil and gas exploration in 2024 threatens to unleash nearly 12bn tonnes of planet-heating emissions, with the world’s wealthiest countries – such as the US and the UK – leading a stampede of fossil fuel expansion in spite of their climate commitments, new data shared exclusively with the Guardian reveals."
"Vice President Kamala Harris’ longtime climate adviser is a 37-year-old Colorado native who has a Ph.D. in marine science, a penchant for electric buses and a miniature poodle named Newton who’s a member of the KHive."
"Wildfires are blazing across western U.S. and Canada, prompting thousands to evacuate, shutting down highways and fouling the air quality over several states."
"A special legislative task force assigned with exploring the impacts of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) in Louisiana still hasn’t submitted a report of its findings — five months after it was due. And its chairman and the lawmaker who created the group won’t say why."
"A 56-year-old woman died while hiking near a state park in south-western Utah over the weekend after running out of water on a sweltering day, officials said."
"Sunday, July 21 was the hottest day ever recorded, according to preliminary data from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, which has tracked such global weather patterns since 1940."
"The former president’s comments on E.V.s have shifted since he has grown more friendly with Elon Musk, the billionaire head of Tesla."
"A 2016 lawsuit illustrates why some activists believe Harris will be more aggressive on climate than Biden."
"A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously denied a lawsuit from a coalition of Republican attorneys general and the fossil fuel industry seeking to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) pollution standards for power plants."
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