Sweden plans to give tax breaks for fixing stuff instead of throwing it away.
Sep 20, 2016, 5:31 am By Kate Yoder
It’s a response to the strange situation we’re in, where buying and shipping a new pair of…Coal’s Last Gamble: A choking industry bets on one more big score
Sep 20, 2016, 5:00 am By Melissa Cronin
Squeezing into a wobbly four-seater propeller plane is the only way to reach the tiny tribe of…The fires of Indonesia aren’t just killing the planet; they’re killing people.
Sep 20, 2016, 4:04 am By Nathanael Johnson
A new study by a group of respected scientists estimates that smoke from forest fires in Malaysia…A decade from now, nobody will own their own car.
Sep 19, 2016, 4:42 pm By Heather Smith
Or so says Lyft’s cofounder and president in a manifesto published on Sunday. John Zimmer writes…The GOP’s top climate hawk sees a potential Trump upside
Sep 19, 2016, 4:00 pm By Rebecca Leber
Bob Inglis is a rare kind of Republican. A former South Carolina congressman turned climate hawk,…Without the Clean Air Act, U.S. cities wouldn’t be much to look at.
Sep 19, 2016, 3:48 pm By Katie Herzog
You can see just how smoggy they’d be in a new report by Save On Energy. The energy conservation…Tens of millions of trees across the U.S. are dying.
Sep 19, 2016, 3:26 pm By Katie HerzogClimate change is a big underlying cause. And the tree loss will make climate change worse.…EPA weighs in on the cancer risks of controversial pesticide.
Sep 19, 2016, 2:51 pm By Nathanael JohnsonThe agency found that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, likely doesn’t cause…States are already complying with the Clean Power Plan rules they are challenging in court.
Sep 19, 2016, 2:25 pm By Ben AdlerReuters looked at the 27 states that are suing to block the EPA’s Clean Power Plan to limit carbon…Who wins from L.A.’s bid to go 100 percent renewable? The kids.
Sep 19, 2016, 1:36 pm By Aura Bogado
The Los Angeles City Council voted on Friday to order the city’s main utility, the Los Angeles…Does a range hood waste too much energy?
Sep 19, 2016, 6:13 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Dear Umbra, When I’m cooking and using the vent over the stove, I wonder how much energy I’m…Should New York City abandon its waterfront?
Sep 19, 2016, 4:42 am By Ben Adler
Even under the best-case scenarios for climate change, much of New York City will be under water in…Ghost forests are eerie evidence of rising seas
Sep 18, 2016, 5:02 am By John Upton
Jennifer Walker stepped off her kayak into a wall of riverside grass. She steadied herself and…La Niña has arrived! Or has it?
Sep 17, 2016, 6:00 am By Brian Kahn
After the demise of El Niño, the climate phenomenon that has helped fuel record-setting heat for…California has an ambitious plan to tackle climate change. Could it work?
4:50pm By Nathanael Johnson
California took a giant step to fight climate change last week, passing ambitious legislation to…Missing out on climate change this election cycle?
4:38pm By Katie HerzogWe don’t blame you. If the presidential race is getting you down, the Sierra Club has got you…Alabama governor declares state of emergency over pipeline spill — but it’s over shortage fears.
3:23pm By Katie Herzog
The Sept. 9 leak released 6,000 barrels, or 252,000 gallons, of refined gas into the environment,…Inside the camp that’s fighting to stop the Dakota Access pipeline
1:43pm By Xian Chiang-Waren
At sundown, Montgomery Brown meets me by the information tent. He has a paper plate piled with…Trump’s economic plan: Free your miners and the jobs will follow
9:35am By Ben Adler
For what appears to be the third time, Donald Trump has announced a plan to grow the economy through…Watch a GIF of U.S. wind power growing like crazy.
6:36am By Kate Yoder
Courtesy of the Natural Resources Defense Council: Over the past 10 years, the country has shifted…
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