After a three decade fight, the Chesapeake Bay is finally flourishing again.
Mar 6, 2018, 3:49 pm By Zoya TeirsteinThe largest estuary in North America was home to a deeply diverse population of plants and animals…After a three-decade fight, the Chesapeake Bay is finally flourishing again.
Mar 6, 2018, 3:49 pm By Zoya TeirsteinThe largest estuary in North America was home to a deeply diverse population of plants and animals…When solar and wind need a boost, nuclear might be the best option
Mar 6, 2018, 7:14 am By Nathanael Johnson
The world is charging closer to the climate cliff, and the fact that we’ve failed to bring down…Scientists running for Congress are about to face a test in Texas.
Mar 5, 2018, 5:14 pm By Zoya TeirsteinThe Trump administration’s reliance on alternative facts has inspired an unusual type of office…Striking teachers in West Virginia call for raising taxes on coal and gas.
Mar 5, 2018, 5:04 pm By Kate Yoder
The 48th lowest-earning teachers in the country are eight days into a strike that demands a 5…Hear ye, hear ye, the Washington state carbon tax is dead. (Again.)
Mar 2, 2018, 6:56 pm By Zoya Teirstein
On the first of March, in the year of our Lord two thousand and eighteen, the Evergreen State’s…Big surprise: Oil and coal win again in the Trump administration.
Mar 2, 2018, 4:57 pm By Justine Calma
Today in the current administration pandering to fossil fuel companies: more EPA rollbacks just as…A federal judge just opened the door to more climate lawsuits.
Mar 2, 2018, 4:11 pm By Nathanael JohnsonIn a ruling this week, Judge William Alsup said that plaintiffs can sue greenhouse-gas emitters in…Nor’easters are now just as dangerous as hurricanes
Mar 2, 2018, 12:53 pm By Eric Holthaus
On Friday and Saturday, the winter storm now moving up the East Coast will unleash hurricane-force…Russian trolls shared some truly terrible climate change memes
Mar 1, 2018, 6:18 pm By Kate Yoder
It should come as no surprise that Russian trolls — known for stoking the flames of America’s…Opposition to Trump’s offshore drilling plan transcends party lines.
Mar 1, 2018, 4:15 pm By Zoya TeirsteinIt turns out, most of us prefer our beaches nice and clean. That’s probably why a January proposal…We’ve lived through one wild year of Ryan Zinke.
Mar 1, 2018, 6:00 am By Zoya TeirsteinIt’s been 365 moons since the secretary of the Interior rode a horse (Tonto, thank you) to his…At EPA’s San Francisco hearing, hundreds defend the Clean Power Plan
8:11pm By Nathanael Johnson
Hundreds of people gravitated to San Francisco Wednesday to ask the EPA not to repeal the Obama-era…The judge who Trump called a ‘hater’ just ruled in favor of the border wall.
4:58pm By Justine CalmaOn the campaign trail, President Trump said U.S. District Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel was incapable of…Climate change will hit some key California crops.
4:47pm By Nathanael Johnson
A new review paper pulls together all the research on what farming will look like in California in…College Republicans have a climate change plan, even if their representatives don’t
2:47pm By Zoya Teirstein
The chasm between congressional Republicans and Democrats on green issues is widening, according to…On Thin Ice
6:00am By Eve Andrews
At the end of October, in the thick of the #MeToo movement, I received a message written by five…Congressional Republicans got F’s on their environmental report cards
Tue 8:00pm By Rebecca Leber
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Scott Pruitt plans to close an EPA office that studies how chemicals harm children.
Tue 5:11pm By Kate YoderIs the EPA administrator trying to look like a movie villain? In the name of organizational…More than 100 cities around the globe get most of their electricity from renewables.
Tue 3:54pm By Zoya TeirsteinThe number of cities that run on at least 70 percent renewable electricity has more than doubled…
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