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Despite a summer in which nearly 600 people are suspected to have died in the increasing heat of the changing climate in the nation’s sunniest state, Arizona’s largest utility walked back its clean energy commitments in August.

Nearly two dozen Arizonans gathered outside Arizona Public Services headquarters Thursday to protest that decision—as well as the utility’s recent announcements that it is planning to build a new natural gas pipeline all the way to Texas, is likely extending how long it will operate its largest coal plant and, for the third year in a row, is raising its rates, this time by

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