Biden’s ‘Solar for All’ awards $7B to bring affordable energy to low-income families
Apr 23, 2024, 4:30 am By Syris Valentine
Clean energy, like so many commodities in this country, is neither distributed evenly nor equally. Disadvantaged communities have far fewer solar panels arrayed across their rooftops than areas with higher incomes. The federal government just took a major step…Acre-by-acre, the Prairie Band Potawatomi bought back their land
Apr 23, 2024, 4:15 am By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
Last week, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation began efforts to re-establish the only federal Indian reservation in Illinois, formally confirming the Tribe’s governance over its land. The move could have wide-ranging impacts on matters ranging from criminal…The American Climate Corps is now hiring
Apr 22, 2024, 6:23 pm By Kate Yoder
You can now apply to be one of the first members of the American Climate Corps. President Joe Biden declared that the program was open for applications on Monday with 273 jobs currently listed on the White House’s website, including coastal conservation in…Indigenous peoples rush to stop ‘false climate solutions’ ahead of next international climate meeting
Apr 22, 2024, 4:45 am By Maria Parazo Rose
This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online, and APTN. For more than 20 years, Tom Goldtooth has listened to conversations about the…A gigantic wind project will cut through Indigenous lands in the Southwest
Apr 22, 2024, 4:30 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online, and APTN. Last week a United States federal judge rejected a request from Indigenous…California communities are fighting the last battery recycling plant in the West — and its toxic legacy
Apr 22, 2024, 4:15 am By Molly Peterson
This story is being co-published with Public Health Watch. West of the Rockies, just one lead battery recycler remains in the United States. If your car battery conks out in downtown Seattle or the Sonoran desert, it will probably be hauled to Ecobat, a lead…How to investigate toxic lead lurking in your community’s soil
Apr 22, 2024, 4:00 am By Yvette Cabrera
Lead poisoning is often treated as if it’s a problem of the past. But its harmful legacy lingers today, particularly in the soil of urban centers across the United States. One in every two American children under the age of 6 tested between late 2018 and…Rural Georgia community battles railroad trying to take their land
Apr 21, 2024, 9:00 am By Aallyah Wright, Capital BThis story was originally published by Capital B. After a year-long legal battle with a railroad company over their land, landowners in a rural, majority-Black town in Georgia may be forced to sell their homes. In an initial decision on April 1, a Georgia…Drilling for oil on public land in the US is about to get more expensive
Apr 20, 2024, 9:00 am By Nick Bowlin, High Country News
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On April 12, the Department of Interior released a new rule that will impose stricter financial requirements for oil and gas companies…The EPA is cracking down on PFAS — but not in fertilizer
Apr 19, 2024, 5:20 pm By Zoya Teirstein
On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency designated two types of “forever chemicals” as hazardous substances under the federal Superfund law. The move will make it easier for the government to force the manufacturers of these chemicals, called per-…Taking Big Oil to court for ‘climate homicide’ isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds
Apr 19, 2024, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
A new legal theory suggests that oil companies could be taken to court for every kind of homicide in the United States, short of first-degree murder. The idea of “climate homicide” is getting attention in law schools and district attorney’s offices…Pediatricians say climate conversations should be part of any doctor’s visit
Apr 19, 2024, 4:30 am By Anya Kamenetz
The reality of climate change came home for Dr. Samantha Ahdoot one summer day in 2011 when her son was 9 years old. She and her family were living in Charlottesville, where Ahdoot is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.…At UN conference, Indigenous peoples say little has changed after promises made a decade ago
Apr 19, 2024, 4:15 am By Anita HofschneiderIn December, Catherine Muruparanga-Ikenn used a power tool to erase the words on a museum display of the Treaty of Waitangi, an 1840 document that asserted British sovereignty over Aotearoa, also known as New Zealand. For years, many Māori, like…UN puts spotlight on attacks against Indigenous land defenders
Apr 18, 2024, 1:08 pm By Sarah Sax
This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online, and APTN. When around 70,000 Indigenous Maasai were expelled from their lands in…Staggering quantities of energy transition metals are winding up in the garbage bin
Apr 18, 2024, 4:45 am By Maddie Stone
To build all of the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies necessary to fight climate change, we’re going to need a lot more metals. Mining those metals from the Earth creates damage and pollution that threaten…The US still won’t fully embrace the rights of Indigenous peoples, here or abroad
Apr 18, 2024, 4:30 am By Anna V. Smith, High Country News
This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online, and APTN. Sometimes when a storm hits and the waves are high in the Straits of Mackinac,…A new federal rule aims to protect miners from black lung disease
Apr 17, 2024, 1:35 pm By Katie Myers
Silica dust, thrown into the air while mining, has contributed to a staggering rise in cases of progressive, incurable, and deadly black lung disease in America’s coal miners. The insidious particulate is particularly common in the seams of low quality coal…In a first, California cracks down on farms guzzling groundwater
Apr 17, 2024, 12:34 pm By Jake Bittle
In much of the United States, groundwater extraction is unregulated and unlimited. There are few rules governing who can pump water from underground aquifers or how much they can take. This lack of regulation has allowed farmers nationwide to empty aquifers of…A wave of climate-conscious startups are brewing ‘beanless coffee’
Apr 17, 2024, 10:57 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The spotlight It’s no secret that climate change poses a threat to our agricultural systems. Hotter temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns, as well as extreme weather events, are already placing stress on farms and imperiling our ability to grow certain…Who’s afraid of a 300-mile transmission line that could help decarbonize the Southeast?
Apr 17, 2024, 4:45 am By Gautama Mehta
This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Verite News. When a winter storm knocked out Texas’ power grid in 2021, the scale of the devastation it wrought was exacerbated by a singular fact about the Lone Star State: It has its own electric…
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