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• Colorado Voters Will Decide Whether a ‘Right to Natural Gas’ Is Added to the State Constitution
  July 13, 2026
  “We’re in uncharted terrain,” said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. “This would be the first constitutional amendment to provide a right to a particular fossil […]
• Grid War: How Geopolitics And Anxiety Drive Home Solar
  July 12, 2026
  To them, it’s about having control and taking care of themselves and their families,” Alexis Abramson, dean of the Climate School at Columbia University, told me in an interview.
• Two Drained Lakes Set Off 25 Glacier Collapses in Just Two Hours, Researchers Find
  July 10, 2026
  Jonathan Kingslake, a glaciologist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, part of the Columbia Climate School, said that “while general statements about the frequency and magnitude of similar events may be hard to make, there is probably […]