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Oil, gas and coal companies sent a record number of lobbyists to the talks in Dubai, and their alignment with extreme right-wing leaders could scuttle global consensus on climate.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The growing momentum at COP28 for a fossil fuel phaseout has not gone unnoticed by the fossil fuel industry, which has sent a record number of representatives and lobbyists to this year’s climate summit. 

An Inevitable Showdown With the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Brewing at COP28

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Is the FBI Investigating Environmental Activists?

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A recent visit by an FBI agent to a climate activist hints at a broadening Trump administration effort to target political opponents.

NEW YORK CITY—The group in the Brooklyn studio seemed harmless. There was a graduate student, a Yiddish teacher, a hairdresser. Fifteen people had gathered on a Wednesday night for a training offered by Extinction Rebellion NYC and Climate Defiance, two climate activist groups that engage in nonviolent civil disobedience and theatrical protest.

Is the FBI Investigating Environmental Activists?

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Gobbled up by Agriculture

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Go behind the scenes with reporters Kiley Bense and Georgina Gustin as they discuss how agriculture is devouring the world’s grasslands, savannas and wetlands.

Agriculture is the biggest driver of forest destruction around the world, especially in well-known places like the Amazon rainforest.

Gobbled up by Agriculture

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Documents Raise New Concerns Over Alligator Alcatraz’s Air and Climate Pollution

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The concerns originate in a state-commissioned environmental assessment on the Everglades detention site, which has detained thousands of migrants since opening last summer.

A state-commissioned environmental assessment on the Everglades migrant detention site known as Alligator Alcatraz, conducted after opponents sued, raises concerns about pollution from the more than 200 generators powering the facility.

Documents Raise New Concerns Over Alligator Alcatraz’s Air and Climate Pollution

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