Want to contact the Georgia Public Service Commission? Here’s how.
May 10, 2024, 3:59 pm By Lyndsey Gilpin
The five members of the Georgia Public Service Commission are publicly elected officials. That means anyone can attend their meetings, offer public comments, and give feedback on energy affordability, justice, and policy in the state. Follow and reach out to…The world is obsessed with forests’ climate benefits. Here’s the problem.
May 10, 2024, 3:45 pm By Kate Yoder
What is the value of a tree? It can provide a cool place to rest in the shade, a snack in the form of fruit, lumber to build a home, and cleaner air. But trees are increasingly being prized for one thing: their ability to capture carbon and counteract climate…Behind the ‘butter board’: How the dairy lobby took over your feed
May 10, 2024, 4:30 am By H. Claire Brown
For the past year and a half, you may have heard a lot about butter. It started with a viral video of influencer chef Justine Doiron carefully slathering two sticks of butter directly onto a wooden cheese board, seasoning the thick layer with flaky sea salt…Texas flooding brings new urgency to Houston home buyout program
May 10, 2024, 4:15 am By Jake BittleAs a series of monster rainstorms lashed southeast Texas last week, thousands of homes flooded in low-lying neighborhoods around Houston. The storms dropped multiple months’ worth of rainfall on Houston in the span of a few days, overtopping rivers and…The Gulf Coast is home to one of the last healthy coral reefs. It’s surrounded by oil.
May 9, 2024, 4:45 am By Jesse Nichols
While the Gulf of Mexico is a region known for oil, it’s also home to something far less expected. Nestled among offshore oil platforms, about 150 miles from Houston, is one of the healthiest coral reefs in the world: the Flower Garden Banks National Marine…Occidental Petroleum’s net-zero strategy is a ‘license to pollute,’ critics say
May 9, 2024, 4:30 am By Joseph Winters
More so than any other fossil fuel company, Occidental Petroleum — known as Oxy — has built its climate strategy around innovations that capture carbon before it can be emitted or pull it directly out of the air. The Texas-based oil giant, which made more…California’s EV wave highlights the challenges ahead for utilities
May 9, 2024, 4:00 am By Syris Valentine
We take for granted the endless flow of electrons that enable modern life just as we take for granted the air we breathe. Yet, an outage can occur at almost any time, usually when too much demand is placed on some portion of the circuit distributing energy…How ‘15-minute cities’ could save time, reduce emissions, and build community
May 8, 2024, 11:08 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The spotlight There are few experiences more soul-sucking than sitting in traffic. According to NPR, the average American lost nearly an hour a week to traffic congestion in 2022. Drivers lose an additional 17 hours per year hunting for parking, USA Today…Microsoft employees spent years fighting the tech giant’s oil ties. Now, they’re speaking out.
May 8, 2024, 4:45 am By Maddie Stone
For nearly a decade, Holly Alpine (née Beale) loved working at Microsoft. Shortly after finishing college, in July 2014, she landed a job there as a technical account manager. Less than four years later, Alpine was leading a team that invests in environmental…One way or another, new EPA rules will stop pollution from coal-fired emissions
May 8, 2024, 4:30 am By Lylla Younes
A quarter of the annual greenhouse gas emissions in the United States come from electricity generation. The biggest polluters in the sector are the country’s coal-fired power plants — decades-old facilities that emit enormous quantities of carbon dioxide…The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia’s water.
May 8, 2024, 4:00 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Every email you send has a home. Every uploaded file, web search, and social media post does, too. In massive buildings erected from miles of concrete, stacked servers hum with the electricity required to process and store every byte of information that modern…Nature can’t run without parasites. What happens when they start to disappear?
May 7, 2024, 4:45 am By Jesse Nichols
When Chelsea Wood was a child, she would often collect Periwinkle snails on the shores of Long Island. “I used to pluck them off the rocks and put them in buckets and keep them as pets and then re-release them,” Wood said. “And I knew that species…Arizona wants to mine uranium near the Grand Canyon. Tribal nations are fighting back.
May 6, 2024, 4:45 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
Earlier this year, Arizona lawmakers sued the Biden administration over the newly created Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni — Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument — arguing that the establishment of national monuments should be state…How the Miccosukee Tribe plans to stop oil drilling in the Everglades once and for all
May 5, 2024, 9:00 am By Amy Green, Inside Climate News
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Within a thicket of the Big Cypress National Preserve, established a half-century ago to protect the marshes and sloughs here that…Texas inmates are being ‘cooked to death’ in extreme heat, complaint alleges
May 4, 2024, 9:00 am By Pooja Salhotra, The Texas TribuneThis story was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. April signaled the beginning of blistering heat…The country’s first new aluminum smelter in 45 years could cut production emissions by 75%
May 3, 2024, 4:45 am By Maddie Stone
Aluminum is a crucial raw ingredient in the fight against climate change. But to ensure the transition off fossil fuels is a clean one, the industry needs a serious makeover. A new federally-funded “green smelter” could help make that happen. Making this…Illinois passed a law to clean up coal ash 5 years ago. What’s taking so long?
May 3, 2024, 4:30 am By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WBEZ and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Sign up for WBEZ newsletters to get local news you can trust. Celeste Flores can tell you the good news about living in Waukegan,…The world’s garment workers are on the frontlines of climate impacts
May 2, 2024, 4:45 am By Louise Donovan
This story is published in partnership with The Fuller Project. As Nour feeds another half-finished pair of pants through her sewing machine, her arms begin to shake. Amid the whir of fans, her T-shirt sticks to her like skin. She fights to focus, knowing full…New documents show oil executives promoted natural gas as green — but knew it wasn’t
May 2, 2024, 4:30 am By Kate Yoder
A congressional hearing on the fossil fuel industry’s “evolving efforts to avoid accountability for climate change” turned into a spectacle on Wednesday morning as lawmakers in Washington, D.C., grilled a panel of experts on wide-ranging — and often…After Lāhainā, Indigenous peoples call for independence
May 2, 2024, 4:15 am By Anita Hofschneider
On the evening of August 8, hours after a wildfire ravaged West Maui, Maui County’s top emergency management official, Herman Andaya, texted his secretary to ask about the status of other fires across the island. “Still burning,” she replied. “Wow……
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