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Global climate policies lack ambition to remove carbon dioxide, study says
Researchers found that the world has much more work to do — both in carbon removal and emission reduction — to meet the Paris Agreement's deadline.
US economy keeps adding jobs, but they are fewer than expected
While the employment landscape is still relatively strong, the economy is clearly slowing down, which is both good and bad.
Biden administration expands two national monuments in California
Thursday's proclamation of the expanded national monuments put President Joe Biden on track to conserve more lands and waters than any other president in history, the White House said.
Ninth Circuit dismisses youth-led climate case in Oregon
The May Day order came from a panel of Donald Trump appointees who found that an Oregon judge violated the Ninth Circuit’s mandate to dismiss the climate case in 2020.
California inches toward age verification to view porn websites
The need to protect children from adult content bumped against First Amendment rights and privacy concerns in a Tuesday hearing of the California Assembly’s Judiciary Committee.
Colorado rafting outfitters sink in bid to block federal wage rule
Colorado rafting outfitters claimed the Biden administration's order to raise wages threatened to disrupt a decades-old tradition of trip-pay.
Actually, T. rex was pretty dumb
Last year, a paper argued that some dinosaurs were as smart as baboons, but some paleontologists now say that's going too far.
Sacramento delta stewards eye climate change protection
Stewards of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta say that preparing levees — which protect more than 600,000 residents and about 740,000 acres of land — is critical in the face of climate change.
Ninth Circuit upholds federal plan for Colorado River dam
Conservationists lost an appeal to the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday as they attempted to force the federal government to reconsider climate change studies in managing the Glen Canyon Dam and Colorado River.
Arizona ‘fake electors’, other Trump allies indicted for fraud, conspiracy
Donald Trump allies Rudy Giuliani, former chief of staff Mark Meadows, and others were indicted Wednesday on fraud and conspiracy charges alongside several Republican leaders.