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    Report: Trump Promised to Reverse Biden Environmental Rules in Exchange for $1B Reelection Pledge From Top Oil Executives

    Report: Trump Promised to Reverse Biden Environmental Rules in Exchange for $1B Reelection Pledge From Top Oil Executives

    According to a new report by The Washington Post, last month at his private Mar-a-Lago club Donald Trump bluntly proposed a “deal” to more than 20 oil executives from some of the largest oil companies in the United States, suggesting they donate $1 billion to his presidential re-election campaign. In exchange, Trump promised that once […]

    Mosquitoes Newly Spreading in Scotland as Temperatures Rise, Scientists Say

    Mosquitoes Newly Spreading in Scotland as Temperatures Rise, Scientists Say

    Scotland’s climate hasn’t historically been supportive to large mosquito populations, as it tends to be cooler. But now, scientists have discovered widespread populations of mosquitoes around Scotland, and they fear warming temperatures could lead to increasing public health risks from mosquito-borne diseases. Scientists at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Virus Research found 16 different […]

    World’s Largest CO2 Removal Plant Opens in Iceland

    World’s Largest CO2 Removal Plant Opens in Iceland

    Swiss company Climeworks has opened the biggest operational direct air capture (DAC) plant in the world to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The Mammoth plant, located in Iceland, is nearly ten times bigger than Orca, its second-largest plant. “Starting operations of our Mammoth plant is another proof point in Climeworks’ scale-up journey to megaton […]

    Vermont Could Become First State to Make Biggest Emitters Pay for Climate-Related Damages

    Vermont Could Become First State to Make Biggest Emitters Pay for Climate-Related Damages

    Vermont’s House of Representatives has passed S.259, a state bill aimed at collecting recovery costs for climate-related damages from the biggest emitters, such as fossil fuel companies. The bill, called the Climate Superfund Act, was introduced to create a Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program, in which fossil fuel businesses would undergo an assessment to determine […]

    Venezuela Thought to Be First Country To Lose All of Its Glaciers

    Venezuela Thought to Be First Country To Lose All of Its Glaciers

    Scientists have reclassified what was the last remaining glacier in Venezuela to an ice field, following significant shrinkage. The reclassification means that Venezuela is believed to be the first Andean country, and the first country globally, to lose all of its glaciers. The Humboldt glacier, or La Corona, had been the only remaining glacier in […]