Flouting Biden pause, agency approves largest LNG terminal in US
Jun 29, 2024, 9:00 am By Pam Radtke, Floodlight
Despite a much publicized pause on the approval of liquefied natural gas terminals in the United States, a federal regulatory agency Thursday approved the construction of the nation’s largest LNG terminal, months before that pause is set to end. The 2-1 vote…The Supreme Court overturns Chevron doctrine, gutting federal environmental protections
Jun 28, 2024, 12:37 pm By Jake Bittle
The Supreme Court on Friday threw into question the future of climate and environmental regulation in the United States, scrapping a decades-old legal precedent that gave federal agencies leeway to interpret laws according to their expertise and scientific…The Tule River Tribe of California recruits an old ally in its fight against wildfires: Beavers
Jun 28, 2024, 4:45 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
After a decade of work, the Tule River Tribe has released nine beavers into the nation’s reservation in the foothills of California’s southern Sierra Nevada mountains. The beavers are expected to make the landscape more fire and drought resistant. Beaver…Scientists just got closer to solving a major Antarctic puzzle
Jun 28, 2024, 4:30 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Three million years ago, the atmosphere’s carbon-dioxide levels weren’t so different from those of today, but sea levels were dozens of meters higher. Looking that far back presents a foreboding peek into the future, as satellite records show that melting…How to survive a heat wave on a fixed income
Jun 28, 2024, 4:15 am By Gautama Mehta
Mone Choy is 68 and lives in the New York City neighborhood of Inwood, at the northern tip of Manhattan, on a fixed disability income of $1,901 per month. Her rent is frozen at $1,928. She lives with chronic health issues that render her unable to work. In…Climate change got a question in the presidential debate. It didn’t get much of an answer.
Jun 28, 2024, 12:51 am By Joseph Winters
Over more than an hour and a half of back-and-forth, climate change got just a couple minutes of airtime during a CNN-hosted debate between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump on Thursday. It was the first time the men had faced each other on…Supreme Court blocks an EPA plan to curb ozone air pollution
Jun 27, 2024, 6:38 pm By Akielly Hu
In a ruling that court observers called “really extraordinary” and achieved through “a procedural strangeness,” the Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a federal plan to reduce air pollution that blows across state lines. The 5-4 decision from the…How do you convince someone to live next to a nuclear waste site?
Jun 27, 2024, 4:45 am By Austyn Gaffney
The world’s first permanent depository for nuclear fuel waste opens later this year on Olkiluoto, a sparsely populated and lushly forested island in the Baltic Sea three hours north of Helsinki. Onkalo — the name means “cavity” or “cave” in…The secret to decarbonizing buildings might be right under your feet
Jun 27, 2024, 4:30 am By Matt Simon
Along with earthworms, rocks, and the occasional skeleton, there’s a massive battery right under your feet. Unlike a flammable lithium ion battery, though, this one is perfectly stable, free to use, and ripe for sustainable exploitation: the Earth itself. …Need a new outfit? Try the library.
Jun 26, 2024, 10:48 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The spotlight At a library in Dover, New Hampshire, earlier this year, the shelves of books and CDs typically available for lending were accompanied by something else — racks of clothes. Every Sunday and Monday from December through mid-January, community…Can Claudia Sheinbaum solve Mexico’s water crisis?
Jun 26, 2024, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
Claudia Sheinbaum won a commanding victory in last month’s Mexican presidential election, winning almost 60 percent of the vote and securing legislative majorities for her left-wing Morena party. A former climate scientist and mayor of Mexico City, Sheinbaum…After SCOTUS decision, Georgia will keep ‘problematic’ voting system for energy regulators
Jun 26, 2024, 4:30 am By Emily Jones
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a case challenging how Georgia elects its powerful energy regulators, clearing the way for delayed Public Service Commission elections in the state to resume. The elections had previously been impugned by voting…A group of young people just forced Hawaiʻi to take major climate action
Jun 24, 2024, 6:44 pm By Naveena SadasivamThe government of Hawaiʻi and a group of young people have reached a historic settlement that requires the state to decarbonize its transportation network. The agreement is the first of its kind in the nation and comes two years after 13 Hawaiian youth sued…Extreme heat kills 1,301 pilgrims during the Hajj in Mecca
Jun 24, 2024, 1:01 pm By Syris Valentine
The Hajj is a time of great reverence for the Muslims who embark upon the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in adherence with a pillar of Islam. But this year’s gathering was tinged by sorrow as a sustained wave of extreme heat pushed temperatures in the desert…The climate case for mock meats is clear. But who can afford them?
Jun 24, 2024, 4:30 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Isobelle McClements was 13 when she came home from school and told her parents she was going vegan. Reading one book that delved into meat processing was all it took to convince her it was time for a lifestyle upheaval. The logistics of seamlessly feeding a…Pollution from Ohio train derailment reached 110 million Americans
Jun 24, 2024, 4:15 am By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
On February 3, 2023, a freight train owned by Norfolk Southern carrying thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals derailed in the town of East Palestine, Ohio.. For days, flames engulfed the rail cars, which contained highly hazardous materials, including vinyl…How a ‘citizen map’ is helping Brazil prepare for its next big flood
Jun 23, 2024, 9:00 am By Jill Langlois
When Lucas George Wendt arrived in Lajeado in late May, the water had already started to recede. Just days before, the peaks of roofs and the tops of trees were some of the only things visible above the murky brown water that had covered his hometown. Located…This coal-heavy rural co-op utility is buying its first solar plants
Jun 22, 2024, 9:00 am By Julian Spector, Canary Media
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, one of the largest rural cooperative utilities in the U.S., is bringing the energy transition home to its massive western service territory. It’s acquiring its first large-scale solar power plants as it…Food’s climate footprint was once again MIA at global talks
Jun 21, 2024, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Last week, the leaders of the world’s seven biggest economies convened in Italy to discuss several pressing global issues during the annual gathering known as the G7 summit. They agreed to lend Russia’s frozen assets to Ukraine, pushed for a ceasefire in…The kids are not alright: Countries fail to include children in their climate plans
Jun 21, 2024, 4:30 am By Anya Kamenetz
Kathrin Zangerl is a pediatrician at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health in Germany, where she is a specialist on how climate change affects children at different stages in their lives. For instance, an infant’s developing lungs make her more…
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Wed 4:45am By Maddy Crowell - Coal miners are fighting Trump’s safety cuts — and winning
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