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From small coastal towns to international ocean treaties, this EPA scientist has helped integrate social science into how ...

A recent groundbreaking study published in Geophysical Research Letters has revealed an astonishing new insight: Earth’s ...

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### Climate Negotiations Head to Brazil: Pioneering a New Approach ...

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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced in March the agency would work to erase the “endangerment finding” that the emissions ...