Why Trump can’t stop states from fighting climate change
Apr 28, 2025, 4:30 am By Matt Simon
The United States has never really cared much about tackling climate change, at least at the federal level. Up until the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA — which handed out billions of dollars for people to electrify their homes, and…With climate action at stake, pro-Trump statement at UNPFII met with silence
Apr 28, 2025, 4:15 am By B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster
This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. During the opening day of this year’s United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, or UNPFII, one speech took a striking turn. Indigenous leaders and representatives of nation states…Indigenous delegates at the UN raise alarm on voluntary isolated peoples
Apr 28, 2025, 4:00 am By Aimee Gabay
This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. At the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues — the world’s largest convening of Indigenous peoples — Indigenous leaders from South America are taking the chance to spotlight…10 charts prove that clean energy is winning — even in the Trump era
Apr 27, 2025, 9:00 am By Umair Irfan
At every light switch, power socket, and on the road, an unstoppable revolution is already underway. Technologies that can power our lives and jobs while doing less harm to the global climate — wind, solar, batteries, etc. — are getting cheaper, more…More women view climate change as their number one political issue
Apr 26, 2025, 9:00 am By Jessica Kutz, The 19th
A new report from the Environmental Voter Project (EVP), shared first with The 19th, finds that far more women than men are listing climate and environmental issues as their top priority in voting. The nonpartisan nonprofit, which focuses on tailoring get…From Greenland to Ghana, Indigenous youth work for climate justice
Apr 25, 2025, 10:58 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
For the last week, Indigenous leaders from around the world have converged in New York for the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, or UNPFI. It’s the largest global gathering of Indigenous peoples and the Forum provides space for…Balcony solar took off in Germany. Why not the US?
Apr 25, 2025, 4:30 am By Akielly Hu
Raymond Ward wants to see solar panels draped over every balcony in the United States and doesn’t understand why that isn’t happening. The technology couldn’t be easier to use — simply hang one or two panels over a railing and plug them into an outlet.…Despite global opposition, Trump just fast-tracked deep sea mining
Apr 24, 2025, 8:13 pm By Anita Hofschneider
President Donald Trump wants federal agencies to fast-track applications for deep-sea mining in an effort to make the United States a global leader in the nascent industry. Trump issued an executive order Thursday declaring that U.S. policy includes…The Trump administration says it wants a ‘nuclear renaissance.’ These actions suggest otherwise.
Apr 24, 2025, 4:45 am By Gautama Mehta
In March, in a thunderous op-ed in Power Magazine, a trade publication covering the electricity industry, Republican senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee called for President Donald Trump to make some major institutional changes in the…A forthcoming Supreme Court decision could limit agencies’ duty to consider environmental harms
Apr 24, 2025, 4:30 am By Akielly Hu
A forthcoming Supreme Court decision is poised to weaken a bedrock law that requires federal agencies to study the potential environmental impacts of major projects. The case, Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, concerns…Oak Flat is sacred to Western Apache. The Trump administration intends to approve a plan to destroy it
Apr 23, 2025, 12:37 pm By Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News
The Trump administration signaled last week it intends to approve a land transfer that will allow a foreign company to mine a sacred Indigenous site in Arizona, where local tribes and environmentalists have fought the project for decades and before federal…How Italy got its citizens — and me — to adopt a rigorous recycling scheme
Apr 23, 2025, 10:50 am By Sarah Stodola
Of all the sources of culture shock I might have anticipated after my partner and I bought a home in 2022 in northern Italy, trash collection never crossed my mind. I didn’t know going in that Italy had become the top overall recycling country in the EU and…How your showerhead and fridge got roped into the culture wars
Apr 23, 2025, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
Efficiency standards for home appliances were once the conversational equivalent of beige — neutral, but aggressively uninteresting. But as political polarization has deepened, dishwashers, laundry machines, showerheads, and other household staples have…Trump’s latest USDA cuts undermine his plan to “Make America Healthy Again”
Apr 22, 2025, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Early in the morning last Monday, a group of third graders huddled in the garden of Mendota Elementary School in Madison, Wisconsin. Of the dozen students present, a handful were busy filling up buckets of compost, others were readying soil beds for spring…A simple tweak to tax law has helped bring solar power to the communities that need it most
Apr 22, 2025, 4:30 am By Syris Valentine
Last year, the Boston Community Solar Cooperative announced plans for its first community solar project: 81 kilowatts of panels atop an affordable housing complex in a low-income, historically Black Boston neighborhood. The success of the project depends, in…Wildlife, not livestock: Why the Eastern Shoshone in Wyoming are reclassifying buffaloes
Apr 21, 2025, 9:30 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
Jason Baldes drove down a dusty, sagebrush highway earlier this month, pulling 11 young buffalo in a trailer up from Colorado to the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. His blue truck has painted on the side a drawing of buffalo and a calf. As the executive…Your guide to the 2025 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Apr 21, 2025, 4:45 am By Anita Hofschneider
Last Thursday, Hanieh Moghani, a legal scholar from Iran, was scheduled to attend a private meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York City with more than a dozen Indigenous experts from around the world. But Moghani was more than 5,000 miles away in…DOGE cuts pull AmeriCorps volunteers off of disaster relief jobs
Apr 20, 2025, 9:00 am By Molly Taft, WIRED
AmeriCorps, the US federal agency that oversees volunteerism and service work, abruptly pulled teams of young people out of a variety of community service projects across the country on Tuesday. The work stoppage was due to cuts attributed to the…In Colorado, gas for cars could soon come with a warning label
Apr 19, 2025, 9:00 am By Jennifer Oldham, Capital and Main
The Centennial State may become first in the nation to require retailers to warn consumers that burning fossil fuels “releases air pollutants and greenhouse gases, known by the state of Colorado to be linked to significant health impacts and global…The environmental policy backed by free-market Republicans
Apr 18, 2025, 4:45 am By Maddie Stone
Several years ago, Louis Blessing’s wife asked for his help replacing the battery in her laptop. An electrical engineer by training, Blessing figured it would be a quick fix. But after swapping out the old battery for a new one and plugging the laptop in, he…
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Sat 9:00am By Alex Hager, KUNC - The transfer of a sacred site to a copper mine is delayed once again
Fri 5:40pm By Miacel Spotted Elk - Youth climate activists won lawsuits in Montana and Hawai‘i. Now they’re targeting Trump.
Fri 5:29pm By Sophie Hurwitz - How Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will raise household energy costs
Fri 4:45am By Naveena Sadasivam - How 3 years of war have ravaged Ukraine’s forests, and the people who depend on them
Thu 4:45am By Chad Small - In California’s largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River
Thu 4:30am By Anita Hofschneider - The smoke from Canada’s wildfires may be even more toxic than usual
Thu 4:15am By Matt Simon - Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous peoples around the world
Wed 10:00am By Graham Lee Brewer, The Associated Press - Funding to protect American cities from extreme heat just evaporated
Wed 4:45am By Matt Simon - The sneaky way even meat lovers can lessen their climate impact
Wed 4:30am By Frida Garza
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