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Volunteers from across the country are in southern Appalachia to help with recovery from Hurricane Helene. Among them are a Texas couple who

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In California, gas stoves may come with a health warning label.

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The rooftop solar business is a big source of consumer complaints. The industry is working to repair its reputation. Here’s how you can prot

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The rooftop solar business is a big source of consumer complaints. Across the country, prosecutors are investigating sales practices and fin

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Ithaca, N.Y., wants to eliminate greenhouse gasses by 2030 — 20 years faster than the rest of the country. But even in this liberal city mee

Getting off fossil fuels is hard, but Ithaca, NY is doing it — building by building. The city passed a Green New Deal and pledged to zero out emissions 20 years ahead of the rest of the country. My latest for NPR looks at how it's going...

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Gas stoves emit potentially harmful pollutants, but utilities and their trade group avoided regulation with tactics perfected by the tobacco

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Benzene is among the pollutants gas stoves emit into homes, Stanford University researchers show. The toxin is linked to a higher risk of le

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Under the Paris climate deal, exports of oil, gas and coal don't count toward a country's emissions. That's coming in for scrutiny as leader

Americans love their gas stoves, but they pollute homes and are connected to a supply system that leaks methane. That's part of a battle as

Lighting Industry's Future Dims As Efficient LED Bulbs Take Over

In the photo above a worker dismantles the production line at a light bulb factory—the latest victim of the LED revolution in the lighting business. You can read/hear the full story here:

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/25/782087163/lighting-industrys-future-dims-as-efficient-led-bulbs-take-over

A Ukrainian-American businessman has helped Rudy Giuliani promote a theory of corruption in Ukraine by Joe Biden, ahead of next year's presidential election.

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To no one in particular and, seemingly, everyone in general: your ideology is tiresome and I won’t defend my reporting against it.

A U.N. climate report says the only way to avoid the worst climate impacts will be to suck carbon emissions out of the air. Researchers are trying to find a feasible way to do that.

To avoid the worst effects of climate change experts say we'll likely will have to pull CO2 from the air. I traveled to British Columbia for @NPR to learn more about a fledgling industry that's trying to make a business of doing that.

Here's what I learned: While governments have helped this business get going, private financing, research and development are dominating the field.

That means they need to find a profitable business model. So instead of sucking the carbon out of the air and storing it back underground (where it would do the most good in addressing climate change) they make the CO2 into products.

I visited the company Carbon Engineering (which boasts Bill Gates as an early investor). They combine CO2 from the air with hydrogen from water and make a fuel like crude oil. It can be refined in gas, diesel, jet fuel.

The concept of pulling climate-changing CO2 from the air and making it into a fuel for your car seems pretty amazing. And it could replace fossil fuels from the ground--stopping more CO2 from being emitted.

But ultimately the company is just moving carbon around the atmosphere--not reducing it. The industry says new policies, like a price or tax on carbon, would help grow the business--especially the part that could sequester or store carbon. Despite calls for that policy--even from big oil companies--not much movement so far.

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Gert Berliner packed a stuffed monkey when he fled the Nazis as a child. He kept the toy for more than a half century before donating it to a museum, an act that led to a remarkable discovery.

I can't come up with enough positive adjectives to describe this very personal story from my NPR colleague Uri Berliner... You need to hear it, look at the photos and then be amazed at the human ability to find beauty in tragedy.

My tour guide at Carbon Engineering in Squamish, BC, Jenny McCahill, is holding pellets of 50% carbon dioxide in her right hand and a bottle of the fuel they produce from it in her left. Yep, they can pull climate-changing CO2 from the air and turn it into a fuel for your car. Story to come...

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As part of the “Mariner East 2: At what risk?” series, StateImpact Pennsylvania reports that pipelines are not likely to explode, but so

‪Interesting piece about why humans are wired to be wary of things like sharks and oil & gas pipelines from‬ Marie Cusick of Stateimpact PA and WITF.

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There are journalists who “take all the air out of the room” and demand you pay attention. They tend to boost ratings. But I think we are all better served by those who put the content of their reporting in the spotlight. Look for them—it’ll be worth the effort.

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