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    23 hours ago

    BREAKING: New York passes nation-leading climate bill! 👏👏 As the federal government backslides in the fight against climate change, this bill raises the bar for states by establishing the strongest greenhouse gas emissions limits in America! 🌎💚

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  2. 11 hours ago

    Electric vehicles are 🔑 to cutting emissions—but can our electric grid handle it? Yes. 's Pamela Macdougall explains how:

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  3. 12 hours ago

    “To have sustainable fishing communities, whether in North Carolina or New Jersey or New York, you need sustainable fish populations, and that comes from having sustainable fishing practices.” —

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  4. 13 hours ago

    Scientists have declared 2019 the Year of the Fly. It’s time to give these insects a second look.

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  5. 14 hours ago

    Offshore drilling is dirty, dangerous, and disruptive. Say NO to Trump’s plan to expand oil and gas drilling on our cherished coasts. Take action here.

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  6. 14 hours ago

    "Trump seeks to allow offshore oil and drilling in nearly all U.S. ocean waters, a move that would expose the Tidewater and nearly every other coastal community in the country to the risk of the next BP-style disaster at sea." President, .

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  7. Retweeted
    18 hours ago

    Fuel economy rules cut pollution and save Floridians money. We heard a lot of excuses from Trump officials for taking us backwards today in , but every time we raise these standards, automakers meet them.

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  8. Retweeted
    17 hours ago

    Help me understand how 's and (who I’m questioning here at this Hearing) cannot answer SIMPLE QUESTIONS about how emissions impact human health?

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  9. Retweeted
    21 hours ago

    This is about American leadership, protecting consumers, and demanding . Under Mary Nichols leadership at , CA has developed the gold standard for emissions that benefits CA, 12 other states, and DC. We need to protect the waiver and the .

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  10. Retweeted
    17 hours ago

    Those who support standards: -Auto industry -EPA's own experts -Drivers -Public health advocates -Climate scientists Those who support Trump's plan to roll them back: -Oil companies Enough is enough. We won't let put industry interests before Americans’.

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  11. 15 hours ago

    "The good news is this doesn't have to to be something that divides us as a nation. Doesn't have to divides us as Democrats and Republicans. Doesn't have to be something with respect to the rest of the world. This is something that should unite us."

    Sen. Carper On The Power Of Uniting For Climate Action
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  12. 15 hours ago

    "This proposal, I think, is a failure of vision and I think it's an abdication of leadership in our fight against climate change. We need to fight this problem head on."

    Sen. Carper On Trump's Failure On Climate
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  13. 15 hours ago

    How can we discuss climate change with our kids? By focusing on solutions, telling success stories, & positioning them as agents of change.

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  14. 15 hours ago

    “The Trump rule promotes neither affordable energy nor clean energy. What it actually does is it attempts to scam the American people into believing that the is doing something to stem the tide of .”

    Sen. Carper On Trump's Dirty Power Scam
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  15. 15 hours ago

    “We need a turning point. Future generations will either celebrate the moment when we committed ourselves to saving our planet or they’ll ask why we failed. And right now we’re looking at failure.”

    Sen. Merkley On The Need For Climate Action
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  16. 15 hours ago

    “ is the greatest threat humans have ever seen on this planet and it’s happening for one simple reason...every single time you use those carbon sources you put carbon in the air and now we have started to really damage our own planet.”

    Sen. Merkley On Climate Chaos
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  17. 15 hours ago

    “Without controlling carbon emissions we will have more premature deaths. The estimates that there would be 1,400 annual deaths, premature, as a result of not regulating properly the carbon emissions coming from power plants.” on Trump’s .

    Sen. Cardin on Deadly Health Impacts of Trump's Dirty Power Scam
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  18. 15 hours ago

    “Power plants are the largest single source of carbon pollution...we need strong federal regulation. We were moving in that direction under the previous admin., now we demote the current emissions standards to a mere suggestion, that is wrong.” on

    Sen. Cardin on Trump's Dirty Power Scam
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  19. 16 hours ago

    When our bees are at risk, our food is at risk. 🐝 Act now to join our fight to !

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  20. Retweeted
    22 hours ago

    Early this morning, New York lawmakers passed one of the most ambitious climate bills in the world, making the state one of the few major jurisdictions with legally binding emissions targets reports.

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  21. 17 hours ago

    India’s record-breaking heatwave has claimed over 180 lives. Climate change isn’t happening in the distant future, the crisis is here and now. Learn how heat action plans can save lives as temperatures increase:

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