Small victories and major frustrations mark latest round of plastics treaty negotiations
Nov 20, 2023, 6:24 pm By Joseph Winters
In March 2022, the world pledged to negotiate a treaty addressing the “full life cycle” of…The UAW ratifies a contract – and labor’s road ahead in the EV transition
Nov 20, 2023, 5:57 pm By Katie MyersMembers of the United Auto Workers have overwhelmingly approved a contract that will deliver higher…Will climate cookbooks change how we eat?
Nov 20, 2023, 4:45 am By Caroline Saunders
Kitchen Arts & Letters, a legendary cookbook store on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, is tiny —…Why ‘climate havens’ might be closer to home than you’d think
Nov 20, 2023, 4:30 am By Kate Yoder
Moving is never easy — and it’s even harder in the era of global warming. Beyond the usual…The liquefied natural gas boom hits a snag in Port Arthur, Texas
Nov 20, 2023, 4:15 am By Lylla YounesThe liquefied natural gas, or LNG, industry has exploded across the U.S. Gulf Coast over the past…The historic claims that put a few California farming families first in line for Colorado River water
Nov 19, 2023, 9:00 am By Janet Wilson, The Desert Sun
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of…Arizona’s Gila River Indian Community moves forward with first solar canal project in the US
Nov 18, 2023, 9:00 am By Shondiin Silversmith, Arizona MirrorThis story was originally published by the Arizona Mirror. In an effort to address the ongoing…The decade-old broken climate promise that looms over COP28
Nov 17, 2023, 4:45 am By Jake BittleThe collapse of negotiations at the 2009 United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark,…One solution to fight climate change? Fewer parking spaces.
Nov 17, 2023, 4:30 am By Siri ChilukuriThis story was supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. In the beginning, parking lots…Where could millions of EV batteries retire? Solar farms.
Nov 16, 2023, 4:33 pm By Gabriela Aoun Angueira
On a 20-acre parcel outside the tiny Southern California town of New Cuyama, a 1.5 megawatt solar…New York calls PepsiCo’s plastic pollution a ‘public nuisance’ in first-of-its-kind lawsuit
Nov 16, 2023, 3:39 pm By Joseph Winters
Plastic trash produced by the company PepsiCo has become a “persistent and dangerous form of…A celebrated startup promised Kentuckians green jobs. It gave them a ‘grueling hell on earth.’
Nov 16, 2023, 4:45 am By Austyn Gaffney
This story was produced by Grist and co-published with the Kentucky Center for Investigative…How waste pickers are fighting for recognition in the UN global plastics treaty
Nov 16, 2023, 4:30 am By Erin X. WongA little over a decade ago, Luyanda Hlatshwayo lived a double life. During the day, he woke early,…It’s not just extreme weather: ‘Climate-sensitive’ diseases are spreading through the US
Nov 16, 2023, 4:15 am By Zoya Teirstein
This week, the United States government and leading climate researchers from institutions across the…China and the U.S., the world’s biggest polluters, strike a climate deal
Nov 15, 2023, 6:06 pm By Chuck SquatrigliaThe United States and China agreed on Wednesday to “sufficiently accelerate” the deployment of…The official US climate report includes LGBTQ+ issues — for the first time
Nov 15, 2023, 10:58 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The spotlight Yesterday, the U.S. government released a massive report analyzing the latest climate…Michigan wants 100 percent of its electricity to be clean by 2040
Nov 15, 2023, 4:45 am By Izzy RossThis coverage is made possible through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in…The Willow effect: Are even more Arctic oil projects on the way?
Nov 15, 2023, 4:30 am By Max GrahamThe massive Willow oil project on Alaska’s North Slope is all but certain to be built now that a…Climate change is putting the health of billions at risk
Nov 14, 2023, 6:30 pm By Zoya Teirstein
Eight years ago, the medical journal the Lancet began compiling the latest research on how climate…UN: Countries’ current climate action plans would raise emissions
Nov 14, 2023, 7:30 am By Akielly HuA new United Nations report finds that countries’ current plans to reduce their carbon emissions…
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