If this Republican donor loves clean energy, then why did he back fossil-fuel friendly candidates?
Nov 17, 2016, 2:41 pm By Ben AdlerLast year, Jay Faison announced that he was going to spend $175 million promoting conservative…Inside the climate movement’s Trump-fighting strategy
Nov 17, 2016, 2:26 pm By Rebecca Leber
With the election of Donald Trump, environmentalists find themselves bracing for their worst…Flint still doesn’t have safe drinking water.
Nov 17, 2016, 2:23 pm By Katie HerzogOver two and a half years since Flint’s water crisis started, Mayor Karen Weaver has extended the…What’s better: New solar panels or old hydropower?
Nov 17, 2016, 5:31 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Are solar panels better or worse for the environment when I live in a state with utilities that…Dakota Access protesters reminded the nation they won’t be silenced.
Nov 16, 2016, 4:42 pm By Rebecca Leber
The chances that activists can defeat construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) may have…Donald Trump thinks climate change is a Chinese hoax. China begs to differ.
Nov 16, 2016, 4:15 pm By Katie HerzogChina’s Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin is showing Trump the receipts to disprove arguably the…It’s a pretty good time to catch up on your environmental justice reading.
Nov 16, 2016, 2:30 pm By Aura BogadoThere’s so much to stomach about the consequences of last week’s election. Between…Climate denier Barrasso to replace climate denier Inhofe as head of Senate environment committee.
Nov 16, 2016, 1:46 pm By Katie HerzogWyoming Sen. John Barrasso will succeed current Senate Committee on Environment and Public…The Department of Interior finalized a new rule to limit methane leakage on federal and Native American land.
Nov 16, 2016, 1:31 pm By Ben AdlerAnd it’s just in the nick of time, since President-elect Trump has promised to repeal all of…We plowed up more wild habitat in the Great Plains than in the Brazilian Amazon in 2014.
Nov 16, 2016, 12:02 pm By Nathanael JohnsonThe Great Plains lost 3,686,960 acres that year; in contrast, the Brazilian Amazon lost 1.4 million,…Climate hawks unite! Meet the newest members of Congress who’ll fight climate change
Nov 16, 2016, 6:59 am By Ben Adler
Last week was an awful one for anyone who cares about the environment. The new Congress and…Meet one young woman who took up the fight at Standing Rock
Nov 15, 2016, 7:01 pm By Antonia Juhasz
Protests are taking place across the country today at the offices of the U.S. Army Corps of…North Carolina has been hit by rare late-season wildfires.
Nov 15, 2016, 3:34 pm By Katie HerzogOfficials are warning residents to stay inside after a rash of wildfires in the Southeast have led…China urges Trump not to back out of climate deal.
Nov 15, 2016, 2:12 pm By Katie Herzog“It is global society’s will that all want to cooperate to combat climate change,” a senior…John Kerry spent Election Day in Antarctica, just like you wish you had.
Nov 15, 2016, 1:55 pm By Amelia UrryIt may be melting, but at least the southern continent has no electoral college. On Election Day,…Countries announced a new global partnership to deliver on their Paris Agreement goals.
Nov 15, 2016, 12:20 pm By Emma Foehringer MerchantIf you’ve ever followed a climate conference — no? just me? — you know that they involve a…For national parks, the next 4 years look bleak
Nov 14, 2016, 7:36 pm By Zoë Schlanger
This story was originally published by Fusion and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Trump and his key advisors stand to profit from the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Nov 14, 2016, 6:34 pm By Kate YoderTheir financial ties are detailed in Antonia Juhasz’s report for Grist about what Donald Trump’s…No, Trump’s election hasn’t derailed the U.N. climate conference
Nov 14, 2016, 6:29 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
In the days leading up to Election Day, climate negotiators preparing for the U.N. climate…Nicolas Sarkozy proposed a carbon tax on American-made goods if Trump pulls out of climate accord.
Nov 14, 2016, 5:04 pm By Katie HerzogOn Sunday, Sarkozy told the French television channel TF1 that he would “demand that Europe put…
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