North Carolina town sues Duke Energy for climate ‘deception’
9:00am By Mario Alejandro Ariza, Floodlight
Carrboro, North Carolina accuses Duke of knowingly fueling the climate crisis for decades with harmful emissions, deception, delay and ‘greenwashing.’This New York town doesn’t want to be a climate experiment
Fri 6:00am By Abby Rabinowitz
A developer wanted to build a facility to capture carbon. Locals saw an environmental menace.Some of the world’s biggest cities are so polluted they’re warming slower
Fri 4:30am By Lylla YounesBut this surprising effect of pollution should hardly be taken as a good sign.The Trump Cabinet nominees who could decide our climate future
Thu 4:45am By Grist staff
It's not just the EPA. From Elon Musk and RFK Jr. to Marco Rubio and Doug Burgum, Trump's picks to lead key agencies are poised to set a very different climate agenda.Don’t blame Biden for inflation. Blame the climate.
Thu 4:30am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Inflation was a defining issue in the presidential election. Here's how climate change is making everything more expensive.Protection of wetlands could come down to farmers, says a new report
Wed 6:00am By Izzy Ross
Industrial agriculture in the Upper Midwest has been a driving force behind wetland loss. The farm bill might hold a solution.New technologies could refine the copper the world needs — without the dirty smelting
Tue 4:45am By Maddie Stone
Copper will play a central role in the energy transition. These startups are working on a cleaner way to extract it.Over 100 countries want an ambitious plastics treaty. Oil-producing nations are getting in the way.
Mon 6:21pm By Joseph Winters
“If it wasn’t for Saudi and Russia we would have reached an agreement here.”How giant ‘batteries’ in the Earth could slash your electricity bills
Mon 4:30am By Matt Simon
We're wasting too much of the clean energy we generate. Reservoirs and caverns can store excess solar and wind power.Midwest wins funding for a new hydrogen hub. Not everyone is convinced it’s ‘clean.’
Mon 4:15am By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
Policymakers and industry say the Midwest Hydrogen Hub will create green jobs and slash emissions, but environmentalists see a ploy to keep fossil fuels in use.The world’s biggest climate case begins in The Hague
Mon 4:00am By Anita HofschneiderAn international court will decide what nations owe to future generations.New York isn’t ready to fight more wildfires
Sun 9:00am By Nathan Porceng, New York Focus
New York could see more frequent and destructive blazes, but the state doesn’t have enough forest rangers and firefighters to respond to the growing threat.There’s a reason oil well sales are collapsing in California: Cleanup costs
Nov 30, 2024, 9:00 am By Aaron Cantú, Capital & Main
Faced with putting up hefty bonds to clean up their mess, operators are instead taking a pass on selling off dying wells.At the final round of plastic treaty negotiations, a production cap hangs in the balance
Nov 27, 2024, 1:23 pm By Joseph Winters
Dozens of countries say the treaty will only “end plastic pollution” if it restricts production.Who’s responsible for waste? A Q&A about the ‘conspiracy’ of overconsumption.
Nov 27, 2024, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
The producer of Netflix’s “Buy Now!” says companies should be accountable for the trash they generate.Michigan wants to fast-track renewable development. Local townships are suing.
Nov 27, 2024, 4:30 am By Izzy Ross
About 80 townships and counties are challenging the state's Public Service Commission over how it plans to implement a new permitting-reform law.How to take climate change out of the culture wars
Nov 26, 2024, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
What if the resistance to climate science is not really about science at all?At COP29, new rules for carbon markets made them even more controversial
Nov 26, 2024, 4:30 am By Joseph Winters
Environmental groups say weak guidelines risk facilitating “cowboy carbon markets at a time when the world needs a sheriff.”‘We lost’: How COP29 ended with a deal that made the whole world unhappy
Nov 25, 2024, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
Under pressure to step up global climate aid, the world’s richest countries secured nothing less than a diplomatic coup in Baku.Trump has vowed to kill offshore wind energy — but it might not be easy
Nov 25, 2024, 4:30 am By Tristan BaurickA giant wind farm off the Louisiana coast will be hard to derail.
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