Opinion
Comment: New Jan. 6 brief against Trump still faces challenge
Special counsel Jack Smith attempts to follow the Supreme Court’s guidance, but it gets the last word.
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Comment: Harris, Trump on nation’s clean energy future
Harris would continue the transition; while Trump can slow but not halt its climate solutions.
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Eco-nomics: The risks, costs we’re seeing now from climate change
The damage wrought by Hurricane Helene’s floods shows the price paid in losses and higher costs.
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Comment: I-2117 imposes too high a cost on our health; vote no
The initiative, repealing the Climate Commitment Act, would degrade health and increase costs of care.
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Comment: Message in a storm: There are no climate havens
Storms like Helene, with rains and destructive flooding, reached hundreds of miles inland.
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Comment: Quickening pace of clean energy growth is good news
If you need an example of technology’s advances, consider the microchip and its exponential improvements.
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Comment: U.S. needs to rethink its ‘ironclad’ support of Israel
Such unconditional support, regardless of actions, led alliances of nations quickly into World War I.
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Comment: Wildfire smoke driving up medical bills, credit debt
After the 2018 Camp Fire in California, average debt increased by $1,400 up to 30 miles away.
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Comment: Missouri must ask if it got man’s execution wrong
The state executed a man Tuesday, as questions around his innocence were ignored by officials.
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Comment: Why Microsoft should help restart a nuclear plant
A restart at Three Mile Island could help relaunch an energy technology that’s especially needed now.
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Comment: Microsoft deal doesn’t yet signal nuclear power revival
Its deal to restart Three Mile Island is a good sign, but new plants will have to follow…
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Comment: For plastic recycling, are we just ‘chasing arrows’?
U.S. regulators considering a crack-down on deceptive claims by producers of plastic packaging.
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Comment: Long prison sentences aren’t protecting public safety
Research shows very long sentences don’t deter crime, aren’t desired by most victims and are too costly.
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Comment: High cost of cofffee should wake us to climate crisis
Drought is killing coffee crops, driving up prices, but also driving farmers from their jobs and towns.
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Comment: Farmers can turn carbon from climate threat to solution
Regenerative farming techniques transfer carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to soil and organisms.
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Comment: Don’t assume Proud Boys aren’t still ‘standing by’
A survey of militia members loyal to Trump show significant numbers ready to use intimidation and violence.
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Comment: Report promises a reckoning on how we teach history
Until we and our kids have a better understanding of U.S. history, we can’t confront our toughest problems.
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Comment: Republicans don’t trust states’ voters on abortion
The issue was returned to the states, yet GOP lawmakers are trying to keep voters from making that…
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Comment: Hydrogen a clean energy, but not with fossil loopholes
Federal rules to encourage ‘green’ hydrogen production are threatened by loopholes to benefit fossil fuel.