Vernon Loeb
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Executive Editor Inside Climate News
Brooklyn, NY
Joined January 2014
Really thrilled about this: Corey Mitchell Joins Inside Climate News as a Senior Editor
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Mitchell won national awards for his co-reporting on school systems’ failures to support homeless students.
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Meltdown at the Wetlands COP: U.S. was a no show, until a Trump representative showed up at the end and demanded no references to climate change.
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More than 170 countries have gathered to save critical ecosystems. But the U.S. is a no-show and Russia said it will withdraw from the wetlands treaty.
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This story by Audrey Gray is really well written: Out in the Storm
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LGBTQ+ Americans are organizing disaster protection for each other as political weather worsens.
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The Biggest US LNG Exporter Is Claiming a Massive Tax Credit for Using Its Cargo as an ‘Alternative’ Fuel
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Critics say the claim relies on a dubious interpretation of a law intended to promote natural gas and other fuels. An Inside Climate News analysis put the potential windfall at more than $140 million.
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Climate Scientists Look to Fight Back Against DOE’s ‘Antiscientific,’ ‘Deceptive’ Climate Report
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Climate scientist Michael Mann called the report “a deeply misleading antiscientific narrative, built on deceptive arguments, misrepresented datasets, and distortion of actual scientific understand...
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Hundreds of Old EV Batteries Have New Jobs in Texas: Stabilizing the Grid
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After reaching the end of their automotive lives, the batteries are being reused to provide lower-cost grid energy storage.
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Any day now, Trump is expected to repeal the "endangerment finding," which enables the federal government to fight climate change.
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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced in March the agency would work to erase the “endangerment finding” that the emissions are harming human health and the environment.
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The Sierra Club's chief strategy officer left earlier this year after rank-and-file staff found out he was also working as a lobbyist for a crypto currency company. change.
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After mounting pressure from staff, managers and volunteers, the Sierra Club put executive director Ben Jealous on leave this month.
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Activists Pledge to Resist Any Federal Effort to Lift Fracking Ban in Delaware River Basin
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Fracking supporters have long tried to get around the ban. Environmentalists worry the interstate agency that imposed it is facing pressure from the Trump administration.
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The Big Beautiful Bill will increase mandatory spending on farm subsidies by more than $50 billion, mostly for corn and soybeans for biofuels. “It’s just pouring more money into the most destructive parts of our industrial food system,” says Stephanie Feldstein of the Center for.
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While the Big Beautiful Bill slashes incentives and tax credits for clean energy, it accommodates the farm lobby’s push to extend tax credits for crop-based aviation fuels, which have been touted as a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels but critics say is anything but.
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The OBBB is expected to contribute an additional 470 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year by 2035, the annual equivalent of more than 100 million gas-powered cars on the road.
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Trump’s legislation will hurt clean energy, boost fossil fuels and end investment in environmental justice. Climate advocates vow to continue the fight.
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“This administration has such an animus towards anything that fights climate change. That’s terrible for the future competitiveness of our industries”: U.S. Steel Is a Major Source of Pollution in Pennsylvania. Will Its Sale Lock in Emissions for Another Generation?.
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This is a big deal, filling the void left by the U.S.: For the First Time, China Invests More in Wind and Solar Than Coal Overseas
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative, long derided for its heavy carbon footprint, was dominated by wind and solar power projects for the first time from 2022 to 2023, according to a new analysis. But...
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Trump Reverses Course on Empire Wind, Lifting Pause
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Major New York offshore wind project allowed to resume, after three long phone calls between the president and Gov. Kathy Hochul over the weekend.
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Veteran Environmentalist Sues Rural School Board Over Exxon Tax Break Decision
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A lawsuit says the district failed to meet public notice requirements before its April 29 meeting. Diane Wilson, the plaintiff, called it “a deliberate attempt to avoid public opposition.”
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The Chairman of Texas’ Public Utility Commission Has a To-Do List
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Ahead of Thomas Gleeson’s unanimous vote from a Senate committee Monday to advance his nomination as the chairman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, Sen. Angela Paxton asked the energy...
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An Atmospheric River Brought This Week’s Flooding Rains to the Southeast
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Climate change makes heavy rain even heavier, beginning with warmer waters in the Gulf of Mexico that produce more evaporation into the atmosphere.
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A retreat, for sure: Policy Experts Fear Laxer Climate Rules Could Leave U.S. Markets Open to Greater Volatility
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The Basel Committee’s decision to take a voluntary approach to climate rules and focus only on extreme weather will weaken a key task force, advocates believe.
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Dutch Environmental Group Launches New Climate Case Against Shell to Stop All Investment in New Oil and Gas Fields
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The NGO previously sued Shell to reduce its carbon emissions. The oil major has 700 extraction assets that have yet to be developed with potential CO2 emissions of 36 times those of the Netherlands’...
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