In the first half of this year, oil and gas interests poured more than $17 million into fighting climate and worker-safety legislation. | Continue reading
Along my family's 9,000-mile trip this summer, our days whiplashed between grandeur and extreme weather crises. | Continue reading
The Department of Energy’s moonshot funding program is working. President Trump seems inclined to keep it. | Continue reading
The region needs a lot of new electricity and wants it to be clean. The Trump administration and economic headwinds crippled its best solution. | Continue reading
The region needs a lot of new electricity and wants it to be clean. The Trump administration and economic headwinds crippled its best solution. | Continue reading
But the region’s long industrial and nuclear history has left more toxic legacies, too. | Continue reading
Half a billion pastoralists draw on generations of knowledge to thrive on rangelands. They say protecting their way of life would help others prepare for a hotter, drier world. | Continue reading
Half a billion pastoralists draw on generations of knowledge to thrive on rangelands. They say protecting their way of life would help others prepare for a hotter, drier world. | Continue reading
More than 200 tornadoes have hit Illinois this year. Here's how the twisters form, and how climate change might be influencing them. | Continue reading
From the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, to sewage problems in Alabama, stalled projects could get new life after federal court rulings. | Continue reading
Firefighters describe being pushed to limit by a brutal wildfire season, with key leadership roles going unfilled. | Continue reading
The season of extreme weather holds lessons for how the continent can climate-proof its energy systems. | Continue reading
The season of extreme weather holds lessons for how the continent can climate-proof its energy systems. | Continue reading
Researchers are beginning to untangle how the “drought-disease paradox” works. | Continue reading
An expert on migrant farmworker health describes how this population has been blamed and put at risk, but seldom understood. | Continue reading
Publishers acceded to state requests watering down information on climate change’s impact, a WUSF/Hechinger Report investigation finds. Now the state has turned to updating its science standards. | Continue reading
The proposal would repeal the Roadless Rule, opening up nearly 45 million acres of national land to roadbuilding and logging, despite widespread opposition from scientists and the public. | Continue reading
The proposal would repeal the roadless rule, opening up nearly 45 million acres of national land to roadbuilding and logging, despite widespread opposition from scientists and the public. | Continue reading
The $8B Airo fleet promises cleaner, more reliable service as passenger rail enjoys record ridership — and faces an uncertain future in Washington. | Continue reading
The proposal to replace an aging segment of the Line 5 pipeline in the Great Lakes still needs state approval. Tribal nations say the federal review violates treaty rights. | Continue reading
The additional shade reduces evaporation and stress on the plants, all while generating clean electricity. | Continue reading
As utilities switch to renewables, you'll get paid to send battery power back into the system, making it stronger and cheaper for everyone. | Continue reading
Biden’s incentives gave Qcells a leg up. Now Trump’s tariffs may help it thrive. | Continue reading
A Gallup survey finds that disaster victims are more likely to feel that the future is out of their hands. | Continue reading
The nation’s first tire efficiency standards target an overlooked drag on fuel economy that can cost drivers more at the pump. | Continue reading
Sales of used EV sales continued their surge in July, according to the latest data. | Continue reading
House Democrats have opened an investigation for insider trading. | Continue reading
The move by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the latest government rollback of climate science activity. | Continue reading
New research finds that by making the fossil fuel industry more productive, AI could help increase carbon emissions by up to nearly 5 percent — vastly outpacing the impact of data centers. | Continue reading
For decades, communities have relied on the agency's cancer risk estimates to hold polluters accountable. This year, it's missing. | Continue reading
The Biden-era heat safety rule was already languishing. Now, in a summer of record-breaking heat, a congressional committee has moved to block it entirely. What gives? | Continue reading
The Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe turned family lore into money, media, and a place at the United Nations. | Continue reading
The Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe’s rise shows how the climate movement can validate unverified claims of Indigenous identity — with consequences for Indigenous peoples and climate action. | Continue reading
The mapping effort is uncovering unexpected patterns, with some undeveloped and heavily forested areas holding more heat than researchers anticipated. | Continue reading
Unseasonably warm weather that rapidly melts snowpack is becoming more widespread in the U.S. West and happening earlier in the year. | Continue reading
More than 88 percent of the taxes on wind and solar went to just 10 of the state’s 93 counties. | Continue reading
Thousands have been forced from their homes as Indigenous leaders raise concerns about firefighting resources, emergency assistance, and who decides when communities are safe. | Continue reading
The war in the Middle East has sent Big Oil’s profits soaring. Companies are pocketing the money rather than expanding drilling. | Continue reading
Combining flood mitigation with wetland habitat restoration, "horizontal levees" could protect coastal cities and wildlife from rising seas. | Continue reading
Disrupted treatment, unstable housing, and lasting trauma can compound a disaster’s toll — a pattern now emerging in communities recovering from Hurricane Helene. | Continue reading
Environmental protections usually only cover existing ecosystems. A group of conservationists wants the state to take a longer view. | Continue reading
Solar panel misinformation, spread by bots and by neighbors, derailed a project in Cajun Country that promised millions in local tax revenue. The same methods are being employed nationwide. | Continue reading
The Department of Energy has canceled or stalled funding for thousands of projects that would improve the country’s stressed grid — and not just in blue states. | Continue reading
After an environmental group filed a complaint on behalf of two Montana residents, state regulators rescinded a crucial waiver. | Continue reading
New research suggests that swapping your internal combustion engine for an EV is almost always the greener choice. | Continue reading
BP has locked out about 800 refinery workers in Whiting without pay for months. The hardline tactic is raising fears about the future of union power. | Continue reading
The state used to run on coal, but now renewables are surging. | Continue reading
While “smoke taint” from last month’s hazy skies isn’t an immediate threat, grape growers say it comes on the heels of a growing season already fraught with climate extremes. | Continue reading