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California Wildfire Smoke Spreads 3,000 Miles Away to New York

Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US East Coast has been provided a firsthand reminder of the deadly California wildfires after smoke swept across the country and caused a haze to envelop the eastern seaboard,…

How to Cut Carbon—But Not Carbs—From Your Thanksgiving Dinner

Carl D. Walsh/Portland Press Herald/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. We challenged ourselves to come up with a Thanksgiving dinner that’s delicious (multiple test subjects confirmed this), simple (we made it in under two hours), cheap (we spent about $60 on…

Trump’s EPA Surprises Critics by Toughening Rules on Big-Rig Truck Pollution

This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Environmental Protection Agency announced a new effort to slash pollution from heavy-duty trucks, surprising critics who say the move is the Trump administration’s first to increase regulations on emitters. Flanked by the heads of trucking industry associations, Acting EPA Administrator Andrew…

“I Don’t Have to Stop Being an Activist”

Rashida Tlaib speaks at a Muslim Get Out the Vote rally in Dearborn, Michigan, on July 29, 2018.Jim West/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rashida Tlaib was nearly breathless. It was 1:30 on Tuesday afternoon, and the newly elected congresswoman told me that she’d been racing from one meeting to the…

The California Wildfires Have Already Claimed 31 Lives and Displaced 150,000 People

Mason Trinca for The Washington Post via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Camp Fire in northern California has become the most destructive wildfire in the state’s history, incinerating the town of Paradise, and displacing more…