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In “The White House Effect,” directors Bonni Cohen, Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk’s document how a chance to take real action on global warming was not just squandered but deliberately undermined by the George H.W. Bush administration (1988-1992). Bush took office in 1988, which, at the time, was the planet’s hottest year on record. The former president promised to take on the greenhouse effect with

LONDON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Less than two months ahead of the COP29 United Nations Climate Summit, the Azerbaijani leadership laid out its plans on Tuesday for what it hoped to achieve, as countries continue to wrestle with how to raise ambitions for a new financing target. The main task for the November summit is for countries to agree on a new annual target for funding that wealthy countries

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Supreme Court will hear a lawsuit brought by a group of teens challenging the state's fossil fuel policies that they say harm their health and exacerbate climate change. The state's top court could revive a legal challenge that was dismissed in 2022 by a lower court judge. While he declared the teens "have a valid concern" about climate change and the impacts of the

As my airplane flew low over the flatlands of western Michigan on a dreary December afternoon, sunbursts splintered the soot-toned clouds and made mirrors out of the flooded fields below. There was plenty of rain in this part of the Rust Belt—sometimes too much. Past the endless acres, I could make out the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, then soon, in the other direction, the Detroit River,