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Green rooves to reduce the effects of climate change
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Crunch time for food security
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With Murphy win, N.J. signals left turn on energy.
New Jersey Gov.-elect Phil Murphy (D), then the U.S. ambassador to Germany, greeted then-President Obama in Berlin in 2013. Phil Murphy/Flickr
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Haiti tops index of nations worst-hit by extreme weather in 2016.
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One of the world's biggest miners is about to go coal-free.
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EPA proposes reversing stricter pollution rules for heavy-duty trucks with older engines.
Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said the Obama-era rule disproportionately affected an industry that produces roughly 10,000 gliders a year....
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