The EPA’s first chemical plant rule in 20 years targets polluters in Louisiana and Texas
Apr 9, 2024, 6:46 pm By Lylla Younes
The chemical plants that dot the industrial corridors of Texas and Louisiana produce some of the most toxic pollution in the country. Companies like Celanese and Indorama Ventures emit ethylene oxide and 1,3-butadiene into the air of predominantly Black and…Water from arsenic-laced wells could protect the Pine Ridge reservation from wildfires
Apr 9, 2024, 4:45 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
With decades of experience, Reno Red Cloud knows more than anyone about water on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. As climate change makes fire season on the reservation — which covers more than two million acres — more dangerous, he sees a…Georgia’s Vogtle plant could herald the beginning — or end — of a new nuclear era
Apr 8, 2024, 4:45 am By Gautama Mehta
Few issues are as divisive among American environmentalists as nuclear energy. Concerns about nuclear waste storage and safety, particularly in the wake of the 1979 Three Mile Island reactor meltdown in Pennsylvania, helped spur the retirement of nuclear power…Climate change is rewiring fish brains — and probably ours, too
Apr 8, 2024, 4:30 am By Clayton Aldern
This story is excerpted from THE WEIGHT OF NATURE: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains, available April 9, 2024, from Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group. Imagine you are a clown fish. A juvenile clown fish, specifically, in the year 2100. You…The US aims to ‘crack the code’ on scaling up geothermal energy production
Apr 7, 2024, 9:00 am By Oliver Milman, The Guardian
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A limitless supply of heat exists beneath our feet within the Earth’s crust, but harnessing it at scale has proved challenging. Now, a…Disabled drivers can’t use many electric car chargers. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Apr 6, 2024, 9:00 am By Julia Métraux, Mother Jones
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Rolling up to a Tesla charging port, Illinois Republican state Senator Dan McConchie grimaced that wheelchair users like him couldn’t…What the eclipse reveals about the progress and shortfalls of U.S. energy
Apr 6, 2024, 4:30 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
On April 8, millions of glasses-clad onlookers will, for the second time in seven years, hold their breath. As the celestial odds align, the Earth and moon will be in perfect position to blot out the sun across the U.S., along with the solar power that makes…In Chicago, one neighborhood is fighting gentrification and climate change at the same time
Apr 5, 2024, 4:45 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. Christian Diaz hates a boxy, six-story brick building with blue and gray…These ‘green banks’ are getting billions to decarbonize disadvantaged communities
Apr 4, 2024, 7:30 pm By Syris Valentine
The idea of a national “green bank,” which would lend public money to help cash-strapped businesses and individuals invest in things like solar panels and energy-efficiency upgrades, has been kicked around since at least the first Obama administration. But…As Amazon eliminates plastic packaging abroad, it’s using even more in the US
Apr 4, 2024, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
In response to growing pressure to address the plastic pollution crisis, Amazon has been cutting down on plastic packaging. Last July, the company said it used 11.6 percent less plastic for all of its shipments globally in 2022, compared to 2021. Much of…How big-box stores and schools can help marginalized communities go solar
Apr 4, 2024, 4:30 am By Sachi Kitajima MulkeyAcross the nation, strip malls, schools, factories, and other big, nonresidential buildings bask in the sun — a powerful, and too often wasted, source of electricity that could serve the neighborhoods that surround them. Installing solar panels on these vast…Jane Goodall’s legacy of empathy, curiosity, and courage
Apr 3, 2024, 12:36 pm By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision Every single one of you has that indomitable spirit. But so many people don’t let it out. They don’t realize the power they have to influence and change the world. And so I’m saying to you, let your indomitable spirit make a difference. —…The US experienced staggering growth in solar and wind power over the last decade
Apr 3, 2024, 6:00 am By Syris ValentineWhen you live far from the sprawling fields befitting utility-scale solar and wind farms, it’s easy to feel like clean energy isn’t coming online fast enough. But renewables have grown at a staggering rate since 2014 and now account for 22 percent of the…North Carolina tried to rebuild affordable housing after a hurricane. It took half a decade.
Apr 3, 2024, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
As wildfires and hurricanes wreak havoc on American communities year after year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, has quietly become a central part of the federal government’s response to climate change. The agency has spent…The EPA wanted to clean up steel mills. Then a group of Rust Belt senators got involved.
Apr 2, 2024, 4:45 am By Lylla Younes
In early March, a small group of Democratic senators from the Rust Belt sent President Joe Biden an urgent letter. They began by extolling the benefits of two of the Biden administration’s biggest achievements, the bipartisan infrastructure law and the…Indigenous peoples’ climate labor benefits everyone. Should it be paid?
Apr 2, 2024, 4:30 am By Taylar Dawn StagnerNow 30, Big Wind spent most of their 20s fighting extraction projects. They were at Standing Rock, then, immediately after, traveled east to fight the construction of the Tennessee Gas pipeline. A Northern Arapaho tribal member from the Wind River Reservation…The EPA’s push to clean up trucking goes way beyond 18-wheelers
Apr 1, 2024, 1:50 pm By Jake BittleIn the 20 months since Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which offered billions in subsidies for clean energy projects and electric vehicles, President Joe Biden has sought to supplement those climate carrots with a few key sticks. The Environmental…Indigenous Pacific wildfire survivors on Maui can finally get FEMA help
Apr 1, 2024, 4:45 am By Anita HofschneiderAnnDionne Seletin normally finished work as a housekeeper at The Westin in West Maui after 5 p.m. but August 8 was different. With a hurricane passing south of the island and the power out, most guests were riding things out in their rooms and didn’t want to…In Texas, ex-oil and gas workers champion geothermal energy as a replacement for fossil-fueled power plants
Mar 31, 2024, 9:00 am By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune
This story was originally published by the Texas Tribune and is the second of a three-part series on emerging energy sources and Texas’ role in developing them. In 2009, on a plot of shrub-covered cattle land about 45 miles northwest of McAllen, Shell…Midwest maple syrup producers adapt to record warm winter, uncertainty as climate changes
Mar 30, 2024, 9:00 am By Bennet Goldstein, Wisconsin Watch
This story is a product of the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, an independent reporting network based at the University of Missouri in partnership with Report for America, with major funding from the Walton Family Foundation. The art of maple syrup…
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