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Occidental Seeks Texas Property Tax Abatements to Help Finance its Long-Shot Plan for Removing Carbon Dioxide From the Atmosphere

The oil company’s tax break applications include new details about its carbon removal plans, which some experts see as important to countering climate change. Some environmentalists say the technology is unproven, expensive and only marginally useful, at best.

Can Appalachia Be Saved? Or Will ‘Worse and Worse’ Flooding Wash it Away?

Kentucky’s historic floods, amid rising extreme weather in the U.S., have fueled fears in one of America’s most vulnerable regions. Poverty, dispersed housing in remote valleys and strip-mined mountains that accelerate floods make climate adaptation an extreme challenge.

By Chris Kenning, Connor Giffin and James Bruggers

Strip Mining Worsened the Severity of Deadly Kentucky Floods, Say Former Mining Regulators. They Are Calling for an Investigation

In past flooding, hydrologists have calculated runoff 1,000 times greater than without mining. Scientists say climate change will intensify heavy rains.

Progress in Baby Steps: Westside Atlanta Lead Cleanup Slowly Earns Trust With Help From Local Institutions

Study Underscores That Exposure to Air Pollution Harms Brain Development in the Very Young

Today’s Climate: How a Summer of Disasters Shows the US Isn’t Prepared for Climate Migration

Drought Emergency in Mexico Rekindles Demand for Water Law Reform

Food Shocks: Climate Change and the Coming Famines

The Fifth Crime: The Campaign to Make “Ecocide” an International Crime

Something in the Water: Regulators Say Growing Crops With Oil Wastewater Is Safe, But Evidence Is Scant

A detail of the pilot carbon dioxide capture plant is pictured at Amager Bakke waste incinerator in Copenhagen on June 24, 2021. Credit: Ida Guldbaek Arentsen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images

Pipe Dreams: Is Carbon Capture a Climate Solution or a Dangerous Distraction?

Gaslit: The Costs of Flaring and Venting Natural Gas by Fossil Fuel Companies

Noxious Neighbors: The Hidden Dangers of Heated Tanks Storing Asphalt and Other Heavy Fuels

A soy plantation in the Amazon rainforest near Santarém in the state of Pará, Brazil, on May 13, 2006. Credit: Ricardo Beliel/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images

Sowing Risk: How Big Banks’ Investment in Agriculture Fuels the Climate Crisis.

Holger Kenda, on the far right, on his last day working in the mines, Dec. 21, 2018. It was a media event, with the ceremonial extraction of the last piece of hard coal from an underground mine in Germany. The end of subsidies for mining hard coal meant t

Power Switch: Lessons From Germany’s Energy Revolution

Hot Molecules: Low Hanging Super Greenhouse Gases

Warning signs are posted at the French Limited Superfund site. Credit: Spike Johnson

Superfund Super Threats: Toxic Sites at Climate Risk Near You

Anti-Scientists: A Contrarian Minority’s Suspect Work

California's deadliest wildfire on record swept through the down of Paradise in November. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

American Climate: The Future is Already Here

Fumes in South Portland: The Oil Storage Tanks Next Door

Dangers Without Borders: Is the Military Ready for Warming?

Harvesting Peril: Extreme Weather on the American Farm

Finding Middle Ground: Climate Conversations Across America

Choke Hold: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Guards Its Interests

Exxon: The Road Not Taken (aka #ExxonKnew)

Meltdown: Terror at the Top of the World

Big Oil, Bad Air: Fracking the Texas Prairie

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Science

After Unprecedented Heatwaves, Monsoon Rains and the Worst Floods in Over a Century Devastate South Asia

Across the Indian subcontinent, floods and heavy rainfall have affected more than 7.2 million people in Bangladesh, submerged over 2,000 villages in India and caused more than 300 deaths in Pakistan.

By Zoha Tunio

Scientists Say It’s ‘Fatally Foolish’ To Not Study Catastrophic Climate Outcomes

Shifting Sands: Carolina’s Outer Banks Face a Precarious Future

In July, flooding in Karachi, Pakistan, after heavy monsoon rains. Credit: Sabir Mazhar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images.

The Inflation Reduction Act’s provisions on electric vehicles, methane, industrial and agriculture policy add up to big greenhouse gas emissions cuts—if the bill can make it through Congress, experts say.

By Dan Gearino, Georgina Gustin, Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna

Bitcoin Mining Startup in Idaho Challenges Utility on Rates for Energy-Gobbling Data Centers

A Controversial Ruling Puts Maryland’s Utility Companies In Charge Of Billions in Federal Funds

At least three separate analyses by think tanks and academic institutions agree that the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 would cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions some 40 percent by 2030

Justice

A Fear of Gentrification Turns Clearing Lead Contamination on Atlanta’s Westside Into a ‘Two-Edged Sword’ for Residents

The EPA says it is working hard to allay communities fears as it works to clean up 2,000 properties on a new Superfund site. But suspicions run deep in a city with a history of displacing Black communities in the name of urban redevelopment.

By Aydali Campa

In Atlanta, Work on a New EPA Superfund Site Leaves Black Neighborhoods Wary, Fearing Gentrification

At the Greater & Greener Conference, Urban Parks Officials and Advocates Talk Equity and Climate Change

Annie Moore, an English Avenue resident on Atlanta's west side, believes the lump of black rock on her lawn is lead-tainted slag. She worries that if the EPA replaces her dirt, it will lead to flooding on her property. Credit: Aydali Campa

Fossil Fuels

Inside Clean Energy: A Dirty Scandal for a Clean Energy Leader

A wave of revelations about Florida Power & Light begs a question of parent company NextEra Energy: Will a sullied reputation seep into its clean-energy efforts?

By Dan Gearino

A Collision of Economics and History: In Pennsylvania, the Debate Over Climate is a Bitter One

A Vast Refinery Site in Philadelphia Is Being Redeveloped and Called ‘The Bellwether District.’ But for Black Residents Nearby, Justice Awaits

Power lines strung through the Florida Everglades. Credit: Michele Eve Sandberg/Corbis via Getty Images

Clean Energy

The Energy Transition Runs Into a Ditch in Rural Ohio

Resistance to renewable energy is growing in America’s farm country, including in this Ohio village where a solar proposal has divided the community. Here’s how it looks to two families that used to be friends: the Scheins and the Barneses.

By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: What’s Hotter than Solar Panels? Solar Windows.

Inside Clean Energy: Did You Miss Me? A Giant Battery Storage Plant Is Back Online, Just in Time for Summer

Signs opposing the solar project are plentiful all around Williamsport Ohio. July 12, 2022.

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Occidental Seeks Texas Property Tax Abatements to Help Finance its Long-Shot Plan for Removing Carbon Dioxide From the Atmosphere

The oil company’s tax break applications include new details about its carbon removal plans, which some experts see as important to countering climate change. Some environmentalists say the technology is unproven, expensive and only marginally useful, at best.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Can Appalachia Be Saved? Or Will ‘Worse and Worse’ Flooding Wash it Away?

Kentucky’s historic floods, amid rising extreme weather in the U.S., have fueled fears in one of America’s most vulnerable regions. Poverty, dispersed housing in remote valleys and strip-mined mountains that accelerate floods make climate adaptation an extreme challenge.

By Chris Kenning, Connor Giffin and James Bruggers

Strip Mining Worsened the Severity of Deadly Kentucky Floods, Say Former Mining Regulators. They Are Calling for an Investigation

In past flooding, hydrologists have calculated runoff 1,000 times greater than without mining. Scientists say climate change will intensify heavy rains.

By James Bruggers

Progress in Baby Steps: Westside Atlanta Lead Cleanup Slowly Earns Trust With Help From Local Institutions

By Aydali Campa

Study Underscores That Exposure to Air Pollution Harms Brain Development in the Very Young

By Victoria St. Martin

Today’s Climate: How a Summer of Disasters Shows the US Isn’t Prepared for Climate Migration

By Kristoffer Tigue

Drought Emergency in Mexico Rekindles Demand for Water Law Reform

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Food Shocks: Climate Change and the Coming Famines

The Fifth Crime: The Campaign to Make “Ecocide” an International Crime

Something in the Water: Regulators Say Growing Crops With Oil Wastewater Is Safe, But Evidence Is Scant

Pipe Dreams: Is Carbon Capture a Climate Solution or a Dangerous Distraction?

Gaslit: The Costs of Flaring and Venting Natural Gas by Fossil Fuel Companies

Noxious Neighbors: The Hidden Dangers of Heated Tanks Storing Asphalt and Other Heavy Fuels

Sowing Risk: How Big Banks’ Investment in Agriculture Fuels the Climate Crisis.

Power Switch: Lessons From Germany’s Energy Revolution

Hot Molecules: Low Hanging Super Greenhouse Gases

Superfund Super Threats: Toxic Sites at Climate Risk Near You

Anti-Scientists: A Contrarian Minority’s Suspect Work

American Climate: The Future is Already Here

Fumes in South Portland: The Oil Storage Tanks Next Door

Dangers Without Borders: Is the Military Ready for Warming?

Harvesting Peril: Extreme Weather on the American Farm

Finding Middle Ground: Climate Conversations Across America

Choke Hold: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Guards Its Interests

Exxon: The Road Not Taken (aka #ExxonKnew)

Meltdown: Terror at the Top of the World

Big Oil, Bad Air: Fracking the Texas Prairie

After Unprecedented Heatwaves, Monsoon Rains and the Worst Floods in Over a Century Devastate South Asia

Deep in the Democrats’ Climate Bill, Analysts See More Wins for Clean Energy Than Gifts for Fossil Fuel Business

A Fear of Gentrification Turns Clearing Lead Contamination on Atlanta’s Westside Into a ‘Two-Edged Sword’ for Residents

Inside Clean Energy: A Dirty Scandal for a Clean Energy Leader

The Energy Transition Runs Into a Ditch in Rural Ohio

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With Epic Flooding in Eastern Kentucky, the State’s Governor Wants to Know ‘Why We Keep Getting Hit’

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