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A Major but Little-Known Supporter of Climate Denial: Freight Railroads
For nearly 30 years, America’s four biggest rail companies—which move the majority of the country’s coal—have spent millions to deny climate science and block climate policy.
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Getty / The Atlantic ‘How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?’
The government’s disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same.
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The Atlantic State and Federal Data on COVID-19 Testing Don’t Match Up
The CDC has quietly started releasing nationwide numbers. But they contradict what states themselves are reporting.
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Getty / The Atlantic How Virginia Juked Its COVID-19 Data
The state is combining results from viral and antibody tests in the same statistic. This threatens to confound America’s understanding of the pandemic.
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The Atlantic There’s One Big Reason the U.S. Economy Can’t Reopen
The country faces the same problem today that it did two months ago: There are not enough tests to contain the virus.
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Adam Maida A New Statistic Reveals Why America’s COVID-19 Numbers Are Flat
Few figures tell you anything useful about how the coronavirus has spread through the U.S. Here’s one that does.
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Diy 13 / shutterstock / Paul Spella / ... Trump’s New Auto Rollback Is an Economic Disaster
According to the administration’s own math, the pollution rules could eliminate jobs, discourage driving, and inflict billions in damage.
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Steve Pfost / Newsday RM via Getty Private Labs Are Fueling a New Coronavirus Testing Crisis
Backlogs at private laboratories have ballooned, making it difficult to treat suffering patients and contain the pandemic.
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Pool / Getty Exclusive: Kushner Firm Built the Coronavirus Website Trump Promised
The extent of Oscar Health’s work on coronavirus testing hasn’t been previously reported.
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Hanna Barczyk and Franziska Barczyk How the Coronavirus Became an American Catastrophe
The death and economic damage sweeping the United States could have been avoided—if only we had started testing for the virus sooner.
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Lindsey Wasson/Reuters America Isn’t Testing for the Most Alarming Coronavirus Cases
In many states, testing rules are so strict that doctors may not notice a community outbreak until it’s too late.
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Martin Bergsma / shutterstock / Getty / The ... The Dangerous Delays in U.S. Coronavirus Testing Haven’t Stopped
Without adequate testing, people with coronavirus symptoms are left to agonize over the right course of action on their own.
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Getty / The Atlantic Exclusive: The Strongest Evidence Yet That America Is Botching Coronavirus Testing
“I don’t know what went wrong,” a former CDC chief told The Atlantic.
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Mario Tama / Getty Voters Really Care About Climate Change
For Democrats, climate change is now one of the two most important issues in politics, according to a new poll.
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Spencer Platt / Getty The Oil Industry Is Quietly Winning Local Climate Fights
In the past few years, the American Petroleum Institute and its allies have fought against climate-friendly policies in at least 16 different states.
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REUTERS / Lindsey Wasson $10 Billion? In This Climate??
Jeff Bezos has pledged more money to battling climate change than anyone ever has before. But where will it go?
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Elaine Cromie ‘We Knew They Had Cooked the Books’
The Trump administration’s attempt to kill one of America’s strongest climate policies has been a complete debacle.
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Bettmann / Corbis / Getty Only Telephones Are Good
In Iowa and everywhere else
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Rob Robbins / United States Antarctic Program The New Video of One of the Scariest Places on Earth
For the first time, scientists have a clear view of the line where the giant Thwaites Glacier is leaking water into the ocean.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters A Climate-Lawsuit Dissent That Changed My Mind
Twenty-one children brought a lawsuit arguing that the government needs to act on climate change. A federal court dismissed it.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Why Twitter May Be Ruinous for the Left
It’s a machine for misunderstanding other people’s ideas and identities. How do you even organize that?
