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The auto industry saw a slowdown in growth of U.S. electric vehicle sales in 2024, largely due to the longtime leader—Tesla—losing ground. How things go in 2025 will depend a lot on what happens in Washington, where the incoming Trump administration has…

Texas regulators have completed the first overhaul of oilfield waste rules in over 40 years. The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) last month adopted revisions for Chapters 3 and 4 of its rules that govern commercial oilfield waste landfills and on-site…

After Colorado’s most costly wildfire, hundreds of residents in Louisville—one of the communities that burned—protested in front of city hall over building codes meant to make new homes more green and sustainable, arguing they would make the rebuilding…

In his four years in office, President Joe Biden dedicated more federal attention to climate action than any previous president, breaking a decades-long impasse, and worked to ensure vulnerable people and places benefitted from that action.  He signed the…

Fred Wurster’s favorite time to walk through the Great Dismal Swamp is at dusk. Pushing through thick vegetation and swatting away mosquitoes, he gets to a section of this 113,000-acre national wildlife refuge that was repeatedly burned by fires.  Wurster,…

MANHEIM, Pa.—Stephen Haldeman has four apps on his phone just to check air quality, and they have become part of his morning routine: a shot of hot coffee in his favorite white mug, his seat by the sunlit kitchen window and some quick research on his phone…

The future is bright for a little known yet highly efficient method of heating and cooling, a new report by the U.S. Department of Energy concludes.   Ground source heat pumps could heat and cool the equivalent of 7 million homes by 2035—up from just over…

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Aynsley O’Neill with Pat Parenteau, a former EPA regional counsel and emeritus professor at Vermont Law and Graduate School.  In 2021, Honolulu,…

Cashing Out: Ninth in a series on the secretive system disrupting climate action and forcing big payouts to fossil fuel companies. The Biden administration announced a last-minute deal on trade this week, reaching an agreement with Colombia to limit…

As firefighters make some progress containing the unprecedented blazes still tearing through the Los Angeles area, a clearer picture of the true extent of damage is emerging.  It’s bleak. The fires have killed at least 27 people and destroyed more than…