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    COP28 convenes in Dubai — with fractional results

    by Jonathan Lee on

    Just a year ago, fossil fuel companies complained they felt unwelcome at COP27; at this year’s COP28 international climate conference, OPEC has its own pavilion.

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    The Bus Company That Could

    by Jonathan Lee on

    How a small business is overcoming bumps on the road to all-electric buses.

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    TRAVIS BLANSTON
    If you didn't like the Keystone XL pipeline...

    by Jonathan Lawson on

    A controversial pipeline expansion gets approved over a multitude of objections. What climate change will mean for food production and equity. And a major public investment in hydrogen energy.

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    A clean energy just transition for autoworkers

    by Jonathan Lee on

    In this week's issue of Climate Cast: autoworker strike underscores the need for a just transition, the new faces of climate denial, and California enters the climate lawsuit fray.

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    ROBERT OCCHIALINI
    Climate had a week

    by Jonathan Lawson on

    On the occasion of Climate Week, California takes a stand for fossil fuel accountability. The US will organize a Climate Corps after all. Global climate week protests call on governments to show more climate ambition... and action

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    The future of GOP climate action, ESG, and big clean trucks

    by Jonathan Lee on

    Climate issues made a surprise appearance during the recent GOP Presidential debate. Let's see how the candidates responded.

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    Climate-fueled disasters strike, and climate hope perseveres

    by Juan M. Muñoz Jiménez on

    Hawaii wildfires and the aftermath Several wildfires tore across the idyllic landscape with terrifying speed on the Hawaiian island of Maui. At least 111 people have been confirmed killed, hundreds of residents have been displaced, and the historic town of Lāhainā has been destroyed.

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    EARTHWORKS
    The thing about lithium mining

    by Jonathan Lawson on

    The battery component lithium is a key ingredient for the clean energy transition. But sourcing the mineral comes with chalenges and compromises. Also: holding the oil industry accountable, and more clean energy action in the Northwest

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    Stormy weather: a planet in extremis

    by Juan M. Muñoz Jiménez on

    If extreme heat doesn’t freak you out about climate change, your brain may have melted  Only a few years ago, it was quite rare to see news weather coverage linking extreme storms or heat waves to climate change.

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    Climate impacts near and far

    by Juan M. Muñoz Jiménez on

    Stuck between wildfires, smoke, and heat dome, facing the new climate reality Two major climate events are happening in North America; the wildfires in Canada, which are themselves a dange

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ClimateCast - 2 Jul 2026

United states (and a province) flex for climate progress

Major media outlets show an uncertain committment to climate and clean energy journalism; while the US stalls out on climate progress, Washington, California and Quebec collaborate to reduce pollution