Trump’s budget bill is on the verge of transforming how America eats
May 30, 2025, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Early this month, after some equivocation, President Donald Trump briefly endorsed the idea to hike taxes on the wealthiest Americans in his budget proposal to Congress. Economists were quick to point out the meager impact a new millionaire tax bracket would…In her new book ‘Kuleana,’ Sara Kehaulani Goo fights to keep her family’s land
May 30, 2025, 4:30 am By Anita Hofschneider
Sara Kehaulani Goo’s journey to save her family’s land on Maui began in 2019 with an email she read at her kitchen table in Washington, D.C. “Sara, the Hāna property taxes went up 500%,” her dad wrote. “If we can’t find a way to pay, then the…How the Trump administration is putting hundreds of sacred sites at risk
May 29, 2025, 4:45 am By Maria Parazo Rose
Any time a federal agency wants to develop a project in Wyoming — an oil and gas lease, a pipeline, a dam, a transmission line, a solar array — it has to go through Crystal C’Bearing first. C’Bearing is Northern Arapaho and the tribal historic…‘Chilling and dangerous’: Grassroots groups sue over Louisiana law that censors air quality data
May 29, 2025, 4:30 am By Joseph Winters
For several years, Amy Stelly has been partnering with the Louisiana State University School of Public Health in New Orleans to monitor air quality next to the Claiborne Expressway, a busy highway that runs northwest of the city’s iconic French Quarter. At…Paper plants can emit as much CO2 as oil refineries. They’re flying under the radar.
May 29, 2025, 4:15 am By Tik Root
For more than a century, Covington, Virginia has had one dominating feature: its paper mill. Smokestacks tower over the community of 5,500, many of whom work there. But according to a new report, the mill spews more nitrogen oxide, methane, and greenhouse…This Portland collective keeps the city clean — and helps unhoused people find stability
May 28, 2025, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
On a Thursday morning in Portland’s Old Town neighborhood, two dozen people mill around a warehouse, waiting for the results of a lottery. At 7:45 sharp, a woman sitting in an interior office calls out three numbers in quick succession. She repeats the last…Mayors are making climate action personal. It’s working.
May 28, 2025, 4:30 am By Matt Simon
In the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, Justin Bibb was living in a tight, one-bedroom apartment in Cleveland, Ohio. He couldn’t open his windows because his home was an old office building converted to residential units — not exactly conducive to physical…Illinois must protect the Great Lakes from invasive carp. A toxic mess stands in the way.
May 28, 2025, 4:15 am By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
Last week, Illinois officials took possession of a 50-acre stretch of riverbed in Chicago’s shipping channel in a last-ditch effort to prevent an ecological disaster from reaching Lake Michigan. It is there, on a sliver of land where a coal-fired power plant…Trump’s climate denial may help a livestock-killing pest make a comeback
May 27, 2025, 11:29 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
To a throng of goats foraging in a remote expanse of Sanibel Island, Florida, the low whir of a plane flying overhead was perhaps the only warning of what was to come. As it passed, the specially modified plane dropped scores of parasitic New World screwworm…How Big Ag thwarted wetlands protections in Illinois and Iowa
May 27, 2025, 4:45 am By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
Two years ago this week, the Supreme Court’s decision in Sackett v. the Environmental Protection Agency significantly limited the agency’s ability to use the 1972 Clean Water Act to safeguard the nation’s wetlands from pollution and destruction. The…Solar apprenticeships give Virginia students a head start on clean energy
May 25, 2025, 9:00 am By Matt Busse
When Mason Taylor was getting ready to graduate from high school in 2022, he thought he would have to take an entry-level technician job with a company in Tennessee. Taylor grew up in the town of Dryden in rural Lee County, in the westernmost sliver of…Top winemaker ‘may have to leave its Spanish vineyards due to climate crisis’
May 24, 2025, 9:00 am By Sarah Butler, The Guardian
A leading European winemaker has warned it may have to abandon its ancestral lands in Catalonia in 30 years’ time because climate change could make traditional growing areas too dry and hot. Familia Torres is already installing irrigation at its vineyards…The Senate just voted to block California’s gas car ban
May 22, 2025, 7:43 pm By Joseph Winters
For nearly 60 years, California has enjoyed the ability to set its own standards governing air pollution from automobiles, as long as they’re more stringent than the federal government’s. This rule, written into the Clean Air Act, was meant to recognize…Moderate Republicans defended Biden’s climate law — then voted to repeal it
May 22, 2025, 5:50 pm By Zoya Teirstein
After days of intense political infighting between ultra-conservative and moderate Republicans, the House of Representatives voted along party lines on Thursday morning to approve a sweeping tax bill that seeks to eviscerate the heart of landmark climate…The weird way that penguin poop might be cooling Antarctica
May 22, 2025, 11:00 am By Matt Simon
In December 2022, Matthew Boyer hopped on an Argentine military plane to one of the more remote habitations on Earth: Marambio Station at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, where the icy continent stretches toward South America. Months before that, Boyer had…The weird way that penguin poop might be cooling Antarctica
May 22, 2025, 11:00 am By Matt Simon
In December 2022, Matthew Boyer hopped on an Argentine military plane to one of the more remote habitations on Earth: Marambio Station at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, where the icy continent stretches toward South America. Months before that, Boyer had…The Kentucky tornadoes spur mounting anxiety over Weather Service warning systems
May 22, 2025, 4:45 am By Katie Myers
Sandra Anderson didn’t think the storm would be too bad. When her grandchildren asked if the dogs should be brought in, Anderson demurred, saying they’d be fine. But later that night, an alert on her phone warned her of a tornado tearing through her…Who will benefit from melting glaciers?
May 21, 2025, 4:45 am By Max Graham
The Tulsequah Glacier meanders down a broad valley in northwest British Columbia, 7 miles from the Alaska border. At the foot of the glacier sits a silty, gray lake, a reservoir of glacial runoff. The lake is vast, deeper than Seattle’s Space Needle is tall.…The US government stole the Black Hills. Now it’s clear-cutting them.
May 21, 2025, 4:30 am By Anya Kamenetz
Driving into the Black Hills National Forest, as the road gains elevation, raindrops hitting the windshield slow down and start swirling in the air. It’s snowing in late April, a welcome sight in an area that’s been in a climate change-linked drought. …The EPA is rolling back drinking water limits for 4 PFAS. Thousands more remain unregulated.
May 21, 2025, 4:15 am By Joseph Winters
Last week, environmental groups decried plans from the Environmental Protection Agency to rescind and “reconsider” drinking water limits for four per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, compounds linked to cancer and damage to the immune and…
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Fri 5:40pm By Miacel Spotted Elk - Youth climate activists won lawsuits in Montana and Hawai‘i. Now they’re targeting Trump.
Fri 5:29pm By Sophie Hurwitz - How Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will raise household energy costs
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
Thu 4:30am By Anita Hofschneider - The smoke from Canada’s wildfires may be even more toxic than usual
Thu 4:15am By Matt Simon - Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous peoples around the world
Wed 10:00am By Graham Lee Brewer, The Associated Press - Funding to protect American cities from extreme heat just evaporated
Wed 4:45am By Matt Simon - The sneaky way even meat lovers can lessen their climate impact
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