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Over all the barren heights in the desert destroyers will swarm, for the sword of the LORD will devour from one end of the land to the other; no one will be safe. Jeremiah 12:12 (NIV) ✝ 
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When the company recently announced a new partnership with the largest oil company in the world — one that would provide it a close relationship with the startups being fostered at Greentown Labs — it sent shock waves through parts of the climate community.
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A former tobacco lobbyist-turned-Fox News contributor bucked health experts by claiming on air that smoke billowing over the Northeast from Canadian wildfires will do people no harm.
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Sea temperatures at a depth of about 10 metres were a quarter of a degree Celsius higher than ice-free oceans in May averaged across 1991 to 2020, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). Year-round, long-term trends have added 0.6C to the ocean's surface waters in 40 years...
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A Dutch court on Wednesday allowed to proceed to the next phase a civil suit brought by environmental groups against KLM for commercials that allegedly misled consumers about the airline's environmental credentials.
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SAN DIEGO — Moderna, Pfizer and BioNTech were named in lawsuits Tuesday that accuse them of stealing a patented method developed by researchers from The Scripps Research Institute that made the COVID-19 vaccine possible.
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MINNEAPOLIS – Mohamed Ali Hussein and Lul Bashir Ali have pleaded guilty to their roles in the $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally-funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) receives criminal complaints against 35 respondents from the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina), the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), and the owners of the MT Princess Empress in relation to the oil spill in Oriental Mindoro.
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Has Elon Musk presided over a rightward drift in Twitter as well as a decline in value?
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Florida's governor is the latest presidential candidate to be less-than-transparent about his income and assets.
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Indicted Rep. George Santos (R-NY) has lost his bid to block the public from knowing the identities of the donors who bailed him out. As reported by Adam Klasfeld of Law and Crime News, Magistrate Judge Anne Y. Shields granted a motion to unseal the names of the Santos donors...
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High gas prices are fueling the demand for electric vehicles in some traditionally conservative areas where environmentalism doesn’t typically drive purchasing decisions. In at least two deep red Texas counties, EV purchases have eclipsed the national average, The Washington Post reports...
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Okay, the House has passed the debt-ceiling deal, and the Senate will follow suit. So the economic crisis is over. Right? Not quite, because another and more serious economic crisis is brewing...
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On the night news broke that former President Donald Trump has been indicted in connection with a federal probe into his alleged mishandling of classified material, the Republican National Committee blasted out a survey and fundraising email to its massive list of supporters.
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Energy major Shell misled consumers with ad campaigns touting its low-carbon focus while its actual business model is geared toward fossil fuels, a U.K. advertising watchdog said Wednesday.
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Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) and Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA) appear to both be late in disclosing their spouses' stock sales.
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This article originally appeared in Insider NJ.Canada is on fire. The smog fallout downwind has set off air quality alerts for 13 states south of the border with the worst air quality currently being reported in upstate New York from Syracuse to Binghamton.
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Chemical industry documents show that PFAS manufacturers used tobacco industry tactics to suppress public knowledge of the health hazards.
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has requested an extension to filing key financial disclosures amid scrutiny over the luxury vacations he has received from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.
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Lawyers for chemical company say they are making ‘significant’ progress over deal with city of Stuart, Florida...
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U.S. DOI has sought to preserve the resources of this historically and culturally valuable area by withdrawing the public lands and federal mineral estate surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park from new oil and gas leasing.
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Merck on Tuesday became the first pharmaceutical company to sue the Biden administration over a recently enacted law that empowers Medicare to directly negotiate the prices of a small number of high-cost prescription medicines with drug makers—a change that could threaten Merck's bottom line.
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Climate change is remapping where humans can exist on the planet. As optimum conditions shift away from the equator and toward the poles, more than 600 million people have already been stranded outside of a crucial environmental niche that scientists say best supports life.
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Former President Donald Trump made more than $80 million from his businesses in Ireland and Scotland during his years in the White House, according to a report from the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
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Would we really risk the catastrophe of a debt default because we think that some citizens who are receiving food stamps may not be working hard enough? It appears that we would...
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“Succession” is over, but spoiled, entitled billionaire man-children are still very much with us, running social media companies, owning newspapers and television networks, and funding politicians and judges who then keep their taxes low and regulations minimal.
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