Duke Energy will have to clean up its filthy coal ash sites … eventually
May 19, 2016, 2:48 pm By Katie Herzog
Duke Energy is finally being ordered to clean up its coal-ash ponds in North Carolina — more than…Tiny house, big drama in Pittsburgh gentrification battle
May 19, 2016, 2:03 pm By Katie Herzog
There’s a tiny house storm brewing in Pittsburgh. The story starts several years ago, when local…Your cigarettes literally kill everything
May 19, 2016, 1:38 pm By Ask Umbra®
Q. Dear Umbra, I’m a full-time environmental activist living on an anti-aviation protest camp.…The Alberta wildfire is dumping mercury into the atmosphere
May 19, 2016, 1:11 pm By Melissa Cronin
Alberta’s massive wildfire is sending more than just smoke into the air. The Fort McMurray fire,…There’s a 99% chance this will be the hottest year on record
May 18, 2016, 7:49 pm By Andrea Thompson
Odds are increasing that 2016 will be the hottest year on the books, as April continued a remarkable…Trump wants to redo the U.N. climate talks. Here’s why he can’t.
May 18, 2016, 5:57 pm By Clayton Aldern
In an interview with Reuters on Tuesday, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump…Europe keeps hitting clean energy milestones
May 18, 2016, 4:51 pm By Kate Yoder
May has been a good month for clean energy in Europe. Coal plants have faltered and wind farms are…Here’s where the science on GMOs stands
May 18, 2016, 3:46 pm By Nathanael Johnson
The GMO debate is a tar pit of the mind: Partisans repeat the same talking points for decades on…Trump Jr. wants his dad to put him in charge of federal parks and lands
May 18, 2016, 3:16 pm By Katie Herzog
Donald Trump is butting heads with the GOP establishment over the issue of federal lands. Republican…America’s hoarding a huge stash of uneaten cheese
May 18, 2016, 5:00 am By Kate Yoder
Stop everything: The U.S. has been hoarding a massive stash of uneaten cheese weighing in at…Completely unsurprisingly, coal dust kills coral, too
May 18, 2016, 4:44 am By Clayton Aldern
To the shock of no one, it turns out that coal dust is pretty bad for just about everything.…Not paying enough rent? New startup Rentberry could change that
May 18, 2016, 3:50 am By Katie Herzog
As if life for renters in big cities weren’t hellish enough, a new Bay Area startup promises to…Trump wants to start from scratch on the Paris climate deal
May 17, 2016, 8:11 pm By Rebecca Leber
Imagine for a second how tough it is to get 187 nations to agree on anything. The United Nations…Massachusetts kids latest to nab win in lawsuit for climate action
May 17, 2016, 7:31 pm By Clayton Aldern
Leaving future generations to fend for themselves in a climate-changed world isn’t the most…No human alive has seen 7 months this hot before
May 17, 2016, 6:31 pm By Phil Plait
This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Coal workers get screwed, their bosses get bonuses
May 17, 2016, 4:11 pm By Melissa Cronin
A report released Tuesday by the consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen documents how…8,000 oil workers evacuated from Fort McMurray fire. Again.
May 17, 2016, 3:25 pm By Xian Chiang-Waren
Two weeks after it began, the Fort McMurray wildfire is continuing to burn out of control. On…Tesla’s labor controversy shows that a green job isn’t always a good job
May 17, 2016, 3:19 pm By Heather Smith
Last spring, a worker installing pipes in the roof of a Tesla Motors shop in Fremont, Calif.,…North Carolina’s anti-trans governor is dangerously cozy with major polluter
May 17, 2016, 1:00 pm By Katie Herzog
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) has been in the news lately thanks to HB2, a bill he signed into…Here’s a sign that Kentucky’s politics might finally be shifting away from coal
May 17, 2016, 12:20 pm By Rebecca Leber
“There is no red Kentucky or blue Kentucky. There is only charcoal black,” James Higdon wrote in…
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