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Sickened coal miners plead for their black lung benefits as cases surge
Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story was originally co-published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For 38…
'Canary in the coal mine': S.F. Opera strike reveals deeper arts crisis
The strike may be off, but the problems at the San Francisco Opera won't be over when the tenor starts singing at the season's delayed premiere on Tuesday. Opera management and its 69 orchestra musicians reached a tentative agreement on a new…
The Canary in the Coal Mine
Disrupting Politics comes out October 6. Today's excerpt goes back to the spring of 2016: Maria Ressa warning Facebook about Duterte's disinformation machine — and the Trending Topics scandal that exploded on May 9 — the same day as…
Bloomberg Prosecutors? Billionaire-Backed Eco Group Paying State AG Officials Shuts Down
The network of liberal billionaire Michael Bloomberg appears to have taken a page from the George Soros playbook by backing groups specifically engineered to install radicals in state prosecutors' offices who conform to his agenda. The Washington…
Want the Latest Snapdragon? Motorola's Signature 27 May Be Your Best Bet
Motorola's next phone is a top-tier premium device set to feature one of the world's most powerful smartphone processors. The Motorola Signature 27 has yet to be formally announced, but the brand is teasing various features, including the Qualcomm…
Nepal demands climate cash while blaming us for its disaster
A century of observations shows no CO2-driven march toward more heat waves, hurricanes, droughts, and wildfires. Many of those hazards peaked in earlier decades or have declined. Record U.S. heat still belongs to the 1930s. Hurricane activity has…
Exclusive: Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy bets these 21 startups will shape energy's future
While the world is focused on the power demands of AI data centers, the folks at Breakthrough Energy are paying attention, but not for the reasons you might think. “Data centers are a 10% bump against basically flat demand for electricity…
Steel prices at four-year high; trend to continue in H2: report
Domestic steel prices have touched a four-year high due to costlier raw materials, especially coking coal, coupled with rise in post monsoon demand, according to market research firm BigMint. The trend is expected to continue over the remaining…
Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction
Frontier AI labs are convinced that scaling up computation is the path to improving artificial intelligence, and they've put their money where their mouths are, to the tune of trillions of dollars of planned data center projects. The rest of us?
Ground Broken on a Rust Belt Powerhouse
SHIPPINGPORT, Pa. — The last time that I stood on these grounds along the Ohio River in Beaver County was 1976, 19 years after the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States opened here. My Perry High School physics teacher…
Solar and wind supply record 80% of Australia's main power grid for first time
Solar and wind power set a new renewable energy record on two consecutive days last week in Australia, meeting 80% of the demand on themain electricity grid. The National Electricity Market, which serves the eastern states, South Australia, and the…
EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions - but its estimate leaves out health and climate costs
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) The Trump administration is repealing federal rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and gas-fired…
PA's AI boom is repeating old patterns of exploitation
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Pennsylvania's data center industry has promised economic…
Jim Ratcliffe halts production at Hull chemical plants over 'ridiculous' gas prices
Billionaire industrialist Sir Jim Ratcliffe is pausing production at three chemical plants in Hull, blaming the UK's “ridiculously high” gas prices. Ratcliffe's chemicals conglomerate, Ineos, said on Tuesday it would…
Ground Broken on a Rust Belt Powerhouse: Shippingport's Data Hub Rises in the Age of AI Anxiety
SHIPPINGPORT, PA — The last time that I stood on these grounds along the Ohio River in Beaver County was 1976, 19 years after the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States opened here. My Perry High School physics teacher…
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