In Florida, officials and communities clash over where to build the nation’s largest trash incinerator
Dec 23, 2024, 4:15 am By Daniel Chang
When leaders of Florida’s most populous county met in September to pick a site for what could become the nation’s largest trash incinerator, so many people went to the government center to protest that overflow seating spilled into the building’s atrium.…How a fantasy oil train may help the Supreme Court gut a major environmental law
Dec 22, 2024, 9:00 am By Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The state of Utah has come up with its share of boondoggles over the years, but one of the more enduring is the Uinta Basin Railway. The…Biden administration warns natural gas expansion would drive up domestic costs
Dec 21, 2024, 9:00 am By Nina Lakhani, The Guardian
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Biden administration has released a long-awaited analysis on the economic and environmental effects of liquefied natural gas, or…Your gadgets are actually carbon sinks — for now
Dec 20, 2024, 11:00 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
At any given moment, crude oil is being pumped up from the depths of the planet. Some of that sludge gets sent to a refinery and processed into plastic, then it becomes the phone in your hand, the shades on your window, the ornaments hanging from your…A filing error put more than 90,000 acres of Yakama Nation land in the hands of Washington state
Dec 20, 2024, 4:45 am By Maria Parazo Rose
It was barely a choice. In 1855, a time when the ink of border lines on United States maps had scarcely dried, Yakama Chief Kamiakin was told to sign over the land of 14 tribal nations and bands in the Pacific Northwest — or face the prospect of walking…As Trump mulls his FEMA pick, a political land mine awaits in Florida
Dec 20, 2024, 4:30 am By Jake Bittle
Donald Trump owes a lot to his adopted home state of Florida. The state, which is the third-largest in the Electoral College, has delivered him increasingly large majorities in each of the past three elections. Since his victory in November, the…Q&A: How the U.S.–China rivalry is holding back the world’s climate progress
Dec 20, 2024, 4:15 am By Gautama Mehta
In recent years, there has been a dramatic transformation in the economic philosophy guiding the world’s rich countries. After the supply chain shocks brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine — and forced by political…Biden just set a big new climate goal. Can the U.S. achieve it?
Dec 19, 2024, 5:00 am By Jake Bittle
With just a month left in office, the Biden administration is setting a bold new target for U.S. climate action. On Thursday, the White House announced a national goal that would see the country’s greenhouse gas emissions drop 61 to 66 percent below 2005…A study of 11,000 twins shows how to make America walkable again
Dec 19, 2024, 4:45 am By Matt Simon
For a century now, the United States has prioritized the automobile over the pedestrian. Major cities slice up their neighborhoods with thick highways and some suburbs don’t even bother installing sidewalks. Even in deep-blue San Francisco, a battle broke…New data shows just how bad the climate insurance crisis has become
Dec 19, 2024, 4:30 am By Tik Root
Five hurricanes made landfall in the United States this year, causing half a trillion dollars in damages. Flooding devastated mountain towns along the East Coast. Scores of wildfires burned almost 8 million acres nationwide. As such events grow more common,…Indigenous people defending their land face a disproportionate share of violence and threats
Dec 19, 2024, 4:00 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
In the first-ever global study of its kind, researchers concluded that more attention needs to be paid to physical attacks and threats against land defenders, since those incidents often are the precursor to death. Last year, a human rights and environmental…Scientists from 57 countries want to end siloed decision-making on climate and biodiversity
Dec 18, 2024, 8:00 am By Joseph Winters
As global temperatures rise from the burning of fossil fuels, researchers and policymakers have proposed solutions like installing renewable energy, replacing gasoline-powered cars with electric ones, and developing technology to suck carbon out of the air.…Alert fatigue: The phrase that defined our climate in 2024
Dec 18, 2024, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
The weather was bound to be bad in 2024, the hottest year on Earth out of the last 125,000 of them. How to describe 2023 in two words? Global boiling: Forget “rizz” — these words characterized the hottest year ever Heatflation, overshoot, soup throwers:…Why it’s so hard to create a truly recyclable Keurig coffee pod
Dec 17, 2024, 4:45 am By Frida Garza
There’s a Keurig machine in some 40 million households in the U.S. Single-serve coffee brewing systems — which allow consumers to make just one cup of coffee at a time by feeding a pod into a slot and pressing a button — have soared in popularity since…Spending Christmas with ‘Dr. Doom’
Dec 17, 2024, 4:30 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
I was 11 years old the year my older stepsister brought her high school boyfriend home for the first time. It was Thanksgiving in 2006, and his Southern manners fit right in as we bantered between mouthfuls of cornbread stuffing, fried okra, and…Climate takes its toll on the ‘cherry capital of the world’
Dec 17, 2024, 4:15 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
This coverage is made possible in part through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in northern Michigan. Traverse City is known as “the Cherry Capital of the World,” and the Wunsch family has been growing the small stone fruit for six…This Indigenous attorney is fighting for climate justice in the world’s highest court
Dec 16, 2024, 4:45 am By Anita Hofschneider
Julian Aguon wore a dark blue suit and garland made of white coconut fronds, brown hibiscus tree bark, and brown cowry shells. Under the arched ceilings and chandeliers of the Peace Palace in The Hague, he stepped to the podium to make his case to the…Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ taint rural California drinking water, far from known sources
Dec 15, 2024, 9:00 am By Hannah Norman, KFF Health News
Juana Valle never imagined she’d be scared to drink water from her tap or eat fresh eggs and walnuts when she bought her 5-acre farm in San Juan Bautista, California, three years ago. Escaping city life and growing her own food was a dream come true for the…‘Waging war on science’: Researchers worry about their jobs under Trump 2.0
Dec 14, 2024, 9:00 am By Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Mother Jones
Over the years, Donald Trump hasn’t exactly been a champion of science. As president and on the campaign trail, he called climate change a “hoax“; oversaw the rolling back of more than 100 environmental policies; directed agencies to cut down on…After 2 years, Coca-Cola’s promise to scale up reusable packaging is dead
Dec 13, 2024, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
Despite growing public scrutiny and legal challenges over its use of plastic, Coca-Cola appears to be moving backwards on packaging sustainability. Earlier this decade, the soda giant publicly pledged to decrease its use of virgin plastic and boost the share…
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