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Microsoft's climate goals don't include cutting off Mitch McConnell

Microsoft, purported climate wunderkind, is still bankrolling the re-election campaign of America's most insidious climate denier.

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Emily Atkin
Jan 23, 2020
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Microsoft has been getting a lot of praise for its climate commitments lately. It’s not hard to see why.

Last week, the tech giant announced that it plans to make its operations not only carbon neutral, but carbon negative by 2030—meaning that in the next 10 years, the company will take more carbon out of the atmosphere than it emits. According to CNBC, …

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