Rural New England needs EV chargers for tourism. The Trump administration is making it harder to build them.
Feb 23, 2025, 9:00 am By Julia Tilton, The Daily Yonder
When Charyl Reardon needs to charge her electric vehicle quickly, she has to leave her home in New Hampshire’s White Mountains region and drive 65 miles south on the interstate highway until she reaches the capital city of Concord. For those like Reardon,…A Project 2025 advisor takes the reins at EPA Region 6
Feb 22, 2025, 9:00 am By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News
Scott Mason IV will lead the Environmental Protection Agency’s region covering some of the country’s hot spots for oil and gas production and industrial pollution, including Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, the Gulf Coast, and the Permian Basin. Mason advised…The uncertain future of the Green New Deal
Feb 21, 2025, 4:45 am By Frida Garza
Since the first day of President Donald Trump’s second term, three little words keep coming up. In one of his first executive orders, the president instructed agencies to terminate the so-called “Green New Deal,” which he has described as…Republicans once embraced ‘green banks.’ Trump is trying to raid them.
Feb 20, 2025, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced last week that he had uncovered evidence of a massive fraud perpetrated by the Biden administration. In a video posted to social media, the former Republican congressman from New York said…Droughts are getting worse. Is fog-farming a fix?
Feb 20, 2025, 12:01 am By Matt Simon
The city of Alto Hospicio, in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is one of the driest places on Earth. And yet its population of 140,000 continues to balloon, putting mounting pressure on nearby aquifers that haven’t been recharged by rain in 10,000 years. But Alto…What a more sustainable tourism industry could look like
Feb 19, 2025, 11:06 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The spotlight This weekend, the much-anticipated third season of the HBO show White Lotus dropped its first episode. The show famously shows a dark side of tourism, illustrating the class divides between wealthy Westerners who travel to high-end resorts oozing…Thanks to HBO, everyone wants a White Lotus getaway. Can Thailand handle it?
Feb 19, 2025, 4:45 am By Sarah Stodola
Season 3 of the hit HBO show White Lotus premiered this week, opening on a gnarled branch in a dense jungle, the camera tracking upward before landing on a monkey, perched attentively. The shot establishes nature as a primary theme that continues as we watch…Trump’s attack on paper straws is mostly symbolic — but the plastics industry is celebrating
Feb 18, 2025, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to end the federal procurement of paper straws. The order, which claims that paper straws are “nonfunctional” and says it wants to end the “forced use” of them, immediately undoes part of a…‘It’s about control’: Why Trump renamed Denali to Mount McKinley
Feb 18, 2025, 4:30 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
There is a game children play called “King of the Mountain.” The rules vary, but generally, kids race to the top of a mound and push or wrestle until only one child stands and is declared the king. Displacing other children on the mound is the only way to…How the federal funding and hiring freezes are leaving communities vulnerable to wildfire
Feb 17, 2025, 9:00 am By Mark Olalde, ProPublica
This story was originally published by ProPublica. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to shrink the federal government, launched as the deadly Palisades and Eaton fires burned across Los Angeles, have left the country’s wildland firefighting…Mayors across the US urge Congress not to repeal clean energy tax credits
Feb 16, 2025, 9:00 am By Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News
A letter signed by mayors and local leaders across 39 states is calling on Congress to protect all clean energy tax credits made available to state and local governments, which had been responsible for creating thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in…Bogs hold a key to climate solutions through carbon sequestration, but many have been drained
Feb 15, 2025, 9:00 am By Jess Savage, WNIJ
Peat bogs sequester a massive amount of the Earth’s carbon dioxide. But even as scientists work to better understand bogs’ sequestration, the wetlands are under threat. On a cold winter afternoon, naturalist and educator Mary Colwell guided visitors on a…Will J.D. Vance save the Great Lakes from Trump?
Feb 14, 2025, 4:45 am By Izzy Ross
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist, Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan, and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. Last year, Vice President J.D. Vance, then an Ohio senator, was part of…Trump’s funding freeze is wreaking havoc on climate science
Feb 14, 2025, 4:30 am By Zoya Teirstein
Gabriel Filippelli got the form letter from the U.S. State Department on a Monday morning two and a half weeks ago. Since October, Filippelli has been teaching students and faculty in Pakistan how to use air quality devices to monitor air pollution exacerbated…Climate change is scorching the cocoa belt — and you’re paying the price
Feb 14, 2025, 4:15 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Just four West African countries are the foundation of an industry worth more than $100 billion. In the tropical nations of Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, and Nigeria, rows of cacao trees sprout pods bearing dozens of seeds. Once harvested, these humble…Was the world’s most influential climate target doomed from the start?
Feb 14, 2025, 4:00 am By Kate Yoder
In 2015, when the countries of the world hammered out the Paris Agreement, they committed to limiting global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and “pursuing efforts” toward keeping them below 1.5 degrees C. The plan didn’t work…Trump is freezing climate funds. Can he do that?
Feb 13, 2025, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
The two signature achievements of President Joe Biden’s administration were a pair of bills that together pumped close to a trillion dollars toward clean energy and disaster resilience. The bipartisan infrastructure law (2021) and the Inflation Reduction Act…Where did billions in climate and infrastructure funding go? Search our map by ZIP code.
Feb 13, 2025, 4:30 am By Clayton Aldern
By the time President Donald Trump retook office, lawmakers had announced nearly $700 billion in funding for infrastructure- and climate-related projects under two bills passed during the Biden administration — the Inflation Reduction Act and the bipartisan…What it takes to regrow a community after wildfire
Feb 13, 2025, 4:15 am By Kylie Mohr
Seeds are special for Nina Raj, a docent at the Eaton Canyon Nature Center and the founder of the Altadena Seed Library in Southern California. So when Raj and her partner fled from the Eaton Fire on January 7, her first thought wasn’t to pack clothes or…Another casualty of Trump’s funding freeze: New Orleans’ tree canopy
Feb 13, 2025, 4:00 am By Tristan Baurick
A sudden surge in tree planting across New Orleans has come to an even more sudden halt. When President Donald Trump issued a series of orders that froze billions of dollars in federal climate funding late last month, he also slammed the brakes on the most…
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Fri 4:45am By Naveena Sadasivam - How 3 years of war have ravaged Ukraine’s forests, and the people who depend on them
Thu 4:45am By Chad Small - In California’s largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River
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