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The Dalles Mayor Richard Mays looks at the Columbia River from his hilltop home in The Dalles, Oregon. | Photo courtesy of AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, Files |
Data Centers' Thirst for Our Water
Data centers siphon tremendous amounts of water to cool off constantly running servers. In the Dalles, a small town on the banks of the Columbia River in Oregon, recent reports indicate that Google's hub of data centers accounts for 40 percent of the city's total water usage. Now, a new bill threatens to remove federal public land protections, and local advocates fear that cold water streams in Mt. Hood National Forest might be diverted to feed more data centers. If passed, water would be siphoned from an already fragile watershed that feeds into the Columbia River, threatening Indigenous treaty rights and the health of endangered salmon.
Read about the growing fight over data centers and efforts to protect our most important shared resource. |
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| Demand Corporate Climate Action
High grocery prices, skyrocketing utility bills, home insurance that keeps going up -- the costs of corporate greed and extreme weather are hitting our wallets more and more. Big companies created this problem, but they can also be part of the solution if we hold them accountable. Spring is shareholder season, which means public companies hold annual meetings to vote on critical issues, including hundreds of climate-related proposals that shape their sustainability practices. One of the best ways we can push them to act is through public pension funds, which invest trillions of our tax dollars and have a significant voice in these shareholder meetings.
Companies are voting right now, so make your voice heard: Tell your state's pension fund to vote for a better future! |
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Wildlife Atlanta collects information on coyote distribution, behavior, and health. | Photos courtesy of Wildlife Atlanta |
| Cute, Cuddly, and Wild: It's Coyote Puppy Season
Coyotes are America's most familiar wild canine. With spring well underway, many urban coyote families are rearing their young, perhaps within earshot of your front door. Whether it's in old tires, sheds, or holes under homes, these wild denizens of the city are well adapted to carving out a niche among us.
Learn how humans and coyotes can coexist, even in the unlikeliest of places. |
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The Great Salt Lake during a drought in 2021. The lake has been shrinking for years. | Photo by Rick Bowmer/AP |
| What Utah's Move to Protect the Fossil Fuel Industry Could Foreshadow
In March, much of the southwestern United States sweltered under a record-shattering heat wave that scientists determined would have been "virtually impossible" without climate change. That same month, Utah passed a law that shields polluters from accountability for contributing to the planet-warming emissions that are driving more deadly and dangerous heat waves, wildfires, storms, flooding, and other climate impacts. Now more states are looking to follow suit as part of a larger, coordinated effort backed by right-wing interests. But the news isn't all doom and gloom. Other states are taking the opposite approach and moving to make polluters pay for mounting climate costs.
Read how states are choosing (or failing) to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for their climate damage. |
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