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Energy & Tech

This Oil Lobbyist Is the Real Power Behind Trump’s Interior Department

Rebecca Leber

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Weather & Climate

“People Need to Start Leaving Now”: Hurricane Michael Heads For Florida

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Weather & Climate

Weathering The Next Florence

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Politics

Toxic Red Tide Could Fuel a Blue Win in Florida

Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA

Food & Health

Gerard Lacz Images/ZUMA

Study: 40 Years After They Were Banned, These Toxic Chemicals Are Poised to Wipe Out Killer Whales

Experts are calling the new research a “wake-up call.”

Jackie Flynn Mogensen Sep 28, 2018

Politics

Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP

The Private Intelligence Firm Keeping Tabs on Environmentalists

When big oil companies want to monitor activists, they turn to Welund.

Adam Federman Sep 14, 2018

Weather & Climate

National Hurricane Center

An Equator Full of Hurricanes Shows A Preview of End Times

Hurricane Florence is really bad. What’s happening at the Equator is much worse.

Adam Rogers Sep 14, 2018

ENERGY & TECH

Mother Jones illustration

This Oil Lobbyist Is the Real Power Behind Trump’s Interior Department

Rebecca Leber Oct 9, 2018

Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP

The Private Intelligence Firm Keeping Tabs on Environmentalists

Adam Federman Sep 14, 2018

George Long Photography

This 70-Year-Old Republican Mayor Wants to Prove That His Small Southern Town Can Go Green

Megan Jula May 24, 2018

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POLITICS

Mother Jones illustration

This Oil Lobbyist Is the Real Power Behind Trump’s Interior Department

Rebecca Leber Oct 9, 2018

Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA

Toxic Red Tide Could Fuel a Blue Win in Florida

Rebecca Leber Sep 28, 2018

Eric Risberg/AP

Tons of Promises Were Made at Jerry Brown’s Climate Summit, But Only One Requires Rockets

Sep 19, 2018 Rebecca Leber & Nathanael Johnson

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Politics

Now That Scott Pruitt Is Out, This Coal Lobbyist Will Take His Place

Rebecca Leber Apr 10, 2018

Now That Scott Pruitt Is Out, This Coal Lobbyist Will Take His Place

Nasir Kachroo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press

Food & Health

Air Pollution Is Killing Millions Around The Globe Each Year

Erin Schumaker Jan 24, 2018

Air Pollution Is Killing Millions Around The Globe Each Year

Eduardo Melendez

Weather & Climate

Six Months After Maria, the Town Where It Made Landfall Feels Like It’s Been Forgotten

AJ Vicens Mar 16, 2018

Six Months After Maria, the Town Where It Made Landfall Feels Like It’s Been Forgotten

Warming World

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“People Need to Start Leaving Now”: Hurricane Michael Heads For Florida

Richard Luscombe Oct 9, 2018

VCG via Getty Images

The Key to Saving the Planet Could Be This Middle-School Math Concept

Nathanael Johnson Sep 14, 2018

Ricky Arnold/NASA

Hurricane Florence Could Be the Most Powerful Storm to Hit the East Coast in 14 Years

Dan Spinelli Sep 11, 2018

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