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The Climate Recap, brought to you by the Beckisphere Climate Corner, is the place to get your weekly dose of global and US-based climate and clean energy news. How are we doing at reducing the impacts of and preparing for climate change?
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Montana KIDS beat STATE in CLIMATE lawsuit!
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Sep 01, 2023 |
FIRST nuclear plant joins US grid in 30 YEARS!
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Aug 07, 2023 |
Amazon deforestation DROPPED!
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Jul 27, 2023 |
Lab-grown meat hits restaurants!
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Jul 11, 2023 |
UN protects the high seas!
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Jun 29, 2023 |
Wind overtakes gas in the UK!
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Jun 01, 2023 |
Sweden found a huge rare earths deposit
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Feb 10, 2023 |
The ozone layer is healing!
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Jan 19, 2023 |
Was 2022 a good year for the climate?
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Jan 12, 2023 |
EU to tax carbon at its border
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Dec 27, 2022 |
LA bans new oil wells
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Dec 14, 2022 |
Greta sues Sweden
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Dec 05, 2022 |
COP27 Week 2 Recap: Did anything get done?
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Nov 30, 2022 |
South Africa plans to switch from coal straight to clean energy
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Nov 21, 2022 |
COP27 Week 1 Recap
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Nov 16, 2022 |
Big Ag companies agree to regenerative agriculture pledge
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Nov 08, 2022 |
Lula win's Brazil's presidential race!
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Nov 01, 2022 |
Italy's new PM Meloni wants climate change to be a right-wing issue
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Oct 28, 2022 |
Russia uses emissions counting to claim territory
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Oct 25, 2022 |
20 vulnerable countries threaten to withhold debt payments
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Oct 20, 2022 |
Arkansas grows its EV charging network
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Oct 18, 2022 |
Greta says Germany's messing up
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Oct 16, 2022 |
New Zealand plans to tax cow farts
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Oct 13, 2022 |
Munich Re drops oil investments
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Oct 10, 2022 |
World Bank is accused of greenwashing itself
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Oct 06, 2022 |
New York joins California in gas car ban
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Oct 04, 2022 |
Australia's coal state pledges to become a clean energy hub
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Sep 30, 2022 |
Recycled turbine blades are gaining traction
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Sep 29, 2022 |
The UK might get an onshore wind boost
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Sep 27, 2022 |
The White House puts up $7 bil for 10 hydrogen hubs
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Sep 26, 2022 |
Lithuania now leads Europe in energy efficiency retrofits
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Sep 23, 2022 |
Denmark becomes the first to pledge 'loss and damage' finances
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Sep 22, 2022 |
Putin gets his first climate lawsuit
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Sep 20, 2022 |
Patagonia's founder chooses climate action over wealth
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Sep 19, 2022 |
The Atlantic hurricane season's been weirdly quiet
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Sep 06, 2022 |
California just passed MANY climate bills
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Sep 05, 2022 |
Europe plans to build 20 floating LNG terminals to prepare for winter
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Sep 03, 2022 |
American Evangelicals release a pro-climate action report
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Sep 01, 2022 |
Germany and Denmark announce a Baltic Sea offshore wind hub
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Aug 30, 2022 |
The US will see a foot of sea level rise by 2050
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Aug 29, 2022 |
California bans the sale of gas-powered cars by 2035
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Aug 26, 2022 |
VW, Mercedes-Benz partner with Canada to build battery manufacturing
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Aug 25, 2022 |
North America's first freshwater wind farm gets the go-ahead
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Aug 23, 2022 |
Mexico wants to nationalize its energy grid...prioritizing fossil fuels
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Aug 22, 2022 |
A landmark Big Pharma court ruling strengthens Big Oil's defense
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Aug 19, 2022 |
President Biden Signs the largest climate bill in US history into law
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Aug 18, 2022 |
Vanuatu plans to run on 100% clean energy by 2030
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Aug 16, 2022 |
US Congress passes historic climate bill! (that could violate WTO rules)
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Aug 15, 2022 |
China beats out France for second-largest nuclear energy fleet
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Aug 12, 2022 |
India advances an energy conservation bill
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Aug 11, 2022 |
Germany nearly doubles its clean energy target as solar booms
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Aug 09, 2022 |
US Senate passes the historic climate bill
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Aug 08, 2022 |
India FINALLY makes a formal emissions reduction pledge
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Aug 05, 2022 |
US states and Quebec join forces to drop truck emissions
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Aug 04, 2022 |
UN General Assembly declares access to a clean, healthy environment a human right
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Aug 02, 2022 |
Ireland plans to halve emissions by 2030, striking deal with farmers
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Aug 01, 2022 |
New international initiative forms to make hydrogen via nuclear power
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Jul 29, 2022 |
Manchin *seems to have* agreed to climate provisions
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Jul 28, 2022 |
UK student writes a climate education bill
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Jul 26, 2022 |
We're underestimating the rate and intensity of extreme rainfall
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Jul 25, 2022 |
Colorado company brings solar microgrids to Nigeria
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Jul 22, 2022 |
UK climate activists win lawsuit against government for vague plan
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Jul 22, 2022 |
African countries meet this week to talk conservation
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Jul 19, 2022 |
American Presbyterians break up with oil
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Jul 18, 2022 |
Electric tractors make their way to Oregon farms
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Jul 15, 2022 |
The US owes Bangladesh $14.1 bil in damages for emissions
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Jul 14, 2022 |
Climate protestors block the East Hampson airport
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Jul 13, 2022 |
Yosemite's on fire!
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Jul 12, 2022 |
Germany to up its clean energy target
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Jul 11, 2022 |
Third largest airport in Europe gets a flight cap
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Jul 08, 2022 |
Scientists found a new ozone hole and it's huge
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Jul 07, 2022 |
Spain and Portugal join the worst-in-1,200-year drought club
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Jul 06, 2022 |
Colombia conserves 30% of its waters
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Jul 05, 2022 |
G7 countries water-down some climate pledges
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Jun 30, 2022 |
Will the US Supreme Court hear an Apache religious rights case?
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Jun 29, 2022 |
G7 countries agree to provide $600 bil in projects to emerging economies
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Jun 28, 2022 |
Rhode Island goes for most ambitious US climate plan
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Jun 27, 2022 |
IEA lays out how the global clean energy transition's going
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Jun 24, 2022 |
The Maldives is getting a floating city
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Jun 23, 2022 |
Colombia's presidential election is a win for the climate!
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Jun 22, 2022 |
China bans heavy industry in key areas to reduce emissions
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Jun 21, 2022 |
Vietnam arrests a top environmentalist
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Jun 20, 2022 |
New Zealand wants to tax cow burps
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Jun 13, 2022 |
We're missing our last chance to keep warming below 1.5ºC
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Jun 10, 2022 |
Law firm ClientEarth questions the EU and the UK on parts of their climate plans
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Jun 09, 2022 |
Environmental groups combine efforts to tackle 'carbon bomb' projects
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Jun 08, 2022 |
Biden cancels solar tariffs for two years and issues Defense Protection Act
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Jun 07, 2022 |
States and tribes get their right to veto fossil fuel projects back
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Jun 06, 2022 |
A Slack channel to help you quit your job and switch to a climate career
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Jun 03, 2022 |
Finland enacts one of the world's most ambitious climate goals
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Jun 02, 2022 |
Did a study just kill the future of small modular reactors?
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Jun 01, 2022 |
Aussie tech billionaire ruined top polluter's plans
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May 31, 2022 |
US Supreme Court backs a higher price of carbon
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May 30, 2022 |
Brazil shows signs of slowing Amazon deforestation
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May 27, 2022 |
Exxon loses appeals and must now face court
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May 26, 2022 |
International shipping has agreed to be carbon taxed
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May 25, 2022 |
Australia's presidential election is a win for the climate!
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May 24, 2022 |
China's emissions might peak five years early
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May 23, 2022 |
The Atlantic hurricane season will be BAD this year
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May 20, 2022 |
The US solar tariff issue might be one big misunderstanding
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May 19, 2022 |
New Zealand announced a landmark 15-year climate action plan
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May 18, 2022 |
Is the US Dust Bowl back?
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May 17, 2022 |
Electrifying everything would save Australian households over $5,000 a year
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May 16, 2022 |
US offshore wind starts unionizing
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May 13, 2022 |
The EU plans scale up solar to get off Russian fossil fuel
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May 12, 2022 |
The US grid might finally get an upgrade
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May 11, 2022 |
We have almost 90% of the tech we need to stop climate change
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May 10, 2022 |
The US Department of Justice creates an office to tackle environmental justice issues
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May 09, 2022 |
The US might have found a lithium goldmine
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May 06, 2022 |
Billie Eilish adds a climate conference to her summer world tour
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May 05, 2022 |
A major Japan railway runs 100% on renewable energy
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May 04, 2022 |
California might keep its nuclear plant
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May 03, 2022 |
100 EU cities commit to going carbon neutral by 2030
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May 02, 2022 |
Australia starts up its first poop-to-power plant
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Apr 29, 2022 |
Ebay, HP, and 40 other companies lobby Congress for clean energy tax credits
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Apr 28, 2022 |
The UK tackles greenwashing in the financial sector
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Apr 27, 2022 |
The US health sector creates a pledge to reduce emissions
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Apr 26, 2022 |
The top 9 ways to reduce fossil fuel reliance
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Apr 25, 2022 |
The US hit an emissions target a decade early
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Apr 23, 2022 |
Automakers back new strict car emissions standards
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Apr 22, 2022 |
The world's largest carbon capture plant shut down
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Apr 21, 2022 |
The UK adds climate education as a GCSE
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Apr 20, 2022 |
What the French election matters for the climate
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Apr 19, 2022 |
Wind is the US's second-largest energy generator!
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Apr 18, 2022 |
Sophisticated and effective Russian malware detected in US energy plants
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Apr 15, 2022 |
Hydrogen's a worse greenhouse gas than CO2
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Apr 14, 2022 |
Sweden gets greener!
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Apr 14, 2022 |
Biden launches the America The Beautiful challenge
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Apr 13, 2022 |
Solar panels that can produce energy at night
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Apr 12, 2022 |
Big Agriculture is trying to get kids to love pesticides
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Apr 06, 2022 |
A new UN group tackles greenwashed pledges
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Apr 05, 2022 |