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Daily News Lesson August 01 2025

How Ben & Jerry’s is recycling food waste into energy

"...it's well over an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from food waste management." - Eric Roy

U.S. Vice President Vance visits East Palestine, Ohio

Daily News Lesson March 14 2025

Trump's EPA announces aggressive rollback of environmental protections

Learn about the changes the Trump administration wants to make to the EPA

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Daily News Lesson November 14 2024

How the Trump administration might change environmental policy

Discuss what the new Trump administration might do on environmental policy

FILE PHOTO: A view of Duke Energy's Marshall Power Plant in Sherrills Ford

Daily News Lesson May 12 2023

EPA considers rule to slash carbon emissions + Newswrap 5/12/23 + Student video

Learn how the Environmental Protection Agency might move to further slash dangerous greenhouse gases

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Daily News Lesson November 05 2021

News wrap: Over 20 countries pledge to phase out coal use within two decades

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Daily Video November 16 2020

How a Biden administration would try to take on climate change

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Daily Video April 08 2019

How studying the ocean floor explains the history of Earth's climate

Use this NewsHour lesson plan to understand the history of climate change by digging underneath the ocean floor.

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Daily Video June 15 2017

New carbon capture technology may change the future of energy

About 30 percent of our electricity in the United States is produced through coal, but coal-fired power plants produce a large proportion of the greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. As a result, the W.A. Parish power plant in Texas is developing technology called “carbon capture.”

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Daily Video March 31 2016

Colorado explores new, stinky source of alternative energy

In Colorado, a growing industry relies on human and animal waste as a new source of renewable energy.

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Daily Video November 30 2015

Is there a solution to global warming?

The year 2014 ranked as Earth’s hottest in 135 years of record-keeping and 2015 looks even hotter, prompting experts from both scientific and economic backgrounds to search for potential ways to address rising temperatures and ocean levels.

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