Sara Sneath
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- Sep 28, 2026
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- Aug 12, 2026
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Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trumpâs assault on university research, study says (opens the original)
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Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argue Recent attacks on US universities by the Trump administration have built on decades of efforts by libertarian donor networks, fossil fuel companies and conservative thinktanks to reshape university governance and increase outside influence, according to a new study. The authors of the new perspective study argue that the erosion of university autonomy has left colleges more
Worldâs top 20 private equity firms produce more greenhouse gases a year than most countries, report finds (opens the original)
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Firms manage $7.3tn in assets and could afford to transition away from fossil fuels yet invest in natural gas and coal-fired plants to power datacenters The energy portfolios of 20 private equity firms produce 1.5bn tons of greenhouse gases a year, more than the annual emissions of any country except China, the US, India and Russia, according to a new report. Together, these firms manage $7.3tn in assets of all kinds, affording them the ability to shape the pace of the transition away from fossi
We know how to prevent black lung, so why are workers still dying? (opens the original)
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Silicosis sufferers are getting younger as Trump and the coal mining industry push back on protections Silicosis is one of the oldest workplace hazards and public health experts have known for decades how to prevent it. Yet a new wave of workers, from Appalachian coalminers to Latino countertop fabrication workers, are developing and dying from the disease as industry fights new protections and regulators fail to defend the rules that could protect them. John Robinson’s grandfather developed bla
US fossil fuel lobbyists also represent hundreds of cities fighting for climate damages (opens the original)
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Local governments working with firms also linked to fossil fuel giants, analysis of federal lobbying disclosures shows Congressional lobbyists working for fossil fuel firms that are exacerbating the climate crisis are simultaneously representing more than 300 local governments raising funding to recover from climate damage, according to a new analysis. The research by F Minus and Make Polluters Pay reviewed congressional lobbying disclosures for the first quarter of 2026, finding that another 56
âA new normalâ: Miami faces worsening seaweed problem as piles of algae wash up on beaches (opens the original)
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Officials have had to remove thousands of tons of sargassum from Floridaâs beaches amid the climate crisis Dealing with seaweed is the bulk of Chris Bumpusâs job during the summer. As chief of conservation for Miami-Dade countyâs parks, recreation and open spaces department, Bumpus is in charge of cleaning sargassum off 17 miles (27km) of county beaches. But some days, the odds are stacked against him and his team. More and more sargassum, a kind of floating brown algae, has been washing u
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