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From how they sweat to how they breathe, young people process high temperatures differently than adults. Recent studies also show heat’s effects on learning, sleep and mental health.

As a mother of two and a physician who specializes in working with newborns, Mattie Wolf understands that it can be tempting for parents to look upon their children and regard them as a “mini-me.”

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Minneapolis Activists Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Polluting Trash Incinerator

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County officials have said they will eventually close the incinerator, located in a predominantly Black community. Advocates want a concrete plan.

Minneapolis activists are escalating a decades-long fight by going on a hunger strike to demand that local officials shut down a polluting trash incinerator.

Minneapolis Activists Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Polluting Trash Incinerator

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Texas Data Center Developers Play Offense on Water, Claiming Huge Cuts in Usage 

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Ahead of next year’s legislative session, lawmakers probe regulators and industry leaders about how data centers operate.

As Texas confronts decades of water mismanagement and growing demands for electricity from data centers, the state’s top utility regulator, Public Utility Commission Chairman Thomas Gleeson, told a state House committee on Thursday that it’s critical to have a clear picture of how much water data centers use.

Texas Data Center Developers Play Offense on Water, Claiming Huge Cuts in Usage 

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What Is the Economic Impact of Data Centers? It’s a Secret.

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N.C. Gov. Josh Stein wants state lawmakers to rethink tax breaks for data centers. The industry’s opacity makes it difficult to evaluate costs and benefits.

Tax breaks for data centers in North Carolina keep as much as $57 million each year into from state and local government coffers, state figures show, an amount that could balloon to billions of dollars if all the proposed projects are built.

What Is the Economic Impact of Data Centers? It’s a Secret.

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