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Illinois Advances Access to Chargers to Meet EV Goals

How Are Hurricanes Connected to Climate Change?

Hurricanes are intensifying faster, reaching further inland and costing billions in damage as the climate warms.

By Amy Green, Bob Berwyn, James Bruggers

States Test an Unusual Idea: Tying Electric Utilities’ Profit to Performance

Traditional regulatory frameworks generally allow utilities to make guaranteed returns. Connecticut and Hawaii are experimenting with a new model.

Your Guide to Understanding the East Coast Smokepocalypse

Climate Activists Protest the Museum of Modern Art’s Fossil Fuel Donors Outside Its Biggest Fundraising Gala

Department of Agriculture Conservation Programs Are Giving Millions to Farms That Worsen Climate Change

Determined to Forge Ahead With Canal Expansion, Army Corps Unveils Testing Plan for Contaminants in Matagorda Bay in Texas

It’s the Features, Stupid: EV Market Share Is Growing Because the Vehicles Keep Getting Better

Record Investment Merely Scratches the Surface of Fixing Black America’s Water Crisis

By Adam Mahoney and Aallyah Wright, Capital B

Mining Critical to Renewable Energy Tied to Hundreds of Alleged Human Rights Abuses

America’s Iconic Beech Trees Are Under Attack

The Immortals: Greenhouse Gases That Live Forever

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?

Villager Caroline is seen in a withered maize crops field in Kidemu in Kilifi County, Kenya, March 23, 2022. Scattered on the five-acre farm in Bandari village, Kidemu sub-location in Kenya's coastal Kilifi County, were withered maize crops. Adam Ndamunga, an officer with Kenya National Drought Management Authority NDMA in Kilifi, said the drought situation in the region started in August 2021 and has been progressing due to inadequate rains. The United Nations relief agency said the Horn of Africa is experiencing one of its worst droughts in recent history, with more than 13 million people severely food insecure in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. Credit: Dong Jianghui/Xinhua via Getty Images

Food Shocks: Climate Change and the Coming Famines

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

Solar Opposites: A Standoff Over Renewable Energy in Rural America

EPA On-Scene Coordinator Chuck Berry fixes a sign on a yard his team cleaned on English Avenue on May 12, 2022. Since 2019, the agency has been testing soil in the study area, which spans more than 600 acres, for lead. Credit: Aydali Campa

The Superfund Next Door: Toxins & Mistrust in Atlanta

Refuse bags full of materials for recycling in different colored plastic bags. Credit: In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images

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

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

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Science

Cleveland’s Tree Canopy Is in Trouble

New efforts are afoot to bring more trees back to Forest City to address both climate resilience and environmental justice.

By Kathiann M. Kowalski

A New Hurricane Season Begins With Forecasts For Less Activity but More Uncertainty

New Research Shows Global Climate Benefits Of Protecting Nature, but It’s Not a Silver Bullet

A postcard shows Rockefeller Park in Cleveland, Ohio the early 20th century. Credit: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Politics & Policy

Log and Burn, or Leave Alone? Indiana Residents Fight US Forest Service Over the Future of Hoosier National Forest

The mighty, valuable oak is at the center of conflict between federal officials and logging opponents over how to manage mature forests in an era of climate change.

By Marianne Lavelle

EPA Spurns Trump-Era Effort to Drop Clean-Air Protections For Plastic Waste Recycling

Federal Hydrogen Program Is Cutting Out Local Groups, Threatening Climate Goals, Advocates Say

This clear-cutting in March in Hoosier National Forest, captured by drone, is taking place in Crawford County in southern Indiana, just south of an even larger project the Forest Service is planning in an area it calls Buffalo Springs. Photo courtesy of Robbie Heinrich

Justice

This Texas Community Has Waited Decades for Running Water. Could Hydro-Panels Help?

Thousands of low-income, Latino residents in Texas still do not have safe drinking water. In one El Paso colonia, residents see the benefits of solar distillation.

By Martha Pskowski

Global Warming Fueled Both the Ongoing Floods and the Drought That Preceded Them in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna Region

Preserving the Cowboy Way of Life

Olga Thomas and other residents of Hueco Tanks rely on a private company to haul water to their neighborhood. Now she can count on her hydro panels for drinking water. Credit: Omar Ornelas/El Paso Times

Fossil Fuels

Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Emit Carcinogens and Other Harmful Pollutants, Groundbreaking Study Shows

The release of cancer-causing benzene and other toxic gases from sites in Pennsylvania raises concerns about millions of other abandoned wells across the U.S.

By Liza Gross

Environmentalists in Virginia and West Virginia Regroup to Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline, Eyeing a White House Protest

Q&A: The ‘Perfect, Polite Protester’ Reflects on Her Sit-in to Stop a Gas Compressor Outside Boston

John Carter looks at old oil field equipment covered by vegetation near his home February 18, 2016 in Depew, Oklahoma. Thousands of abandoned oil wells were never properly mapped and many of the original drilling companies no longer exist. Credit: J Pat Carter/Getty Images)

Clean Energy

Regardless of What Mr. Bean Says, EVs Are Much Better for the Environment than Gasoline Vehicles

An opinion piece actor Rowan Atkinson wrote for The Guardian contains some familiar and misleading criticisms of electric vehicles.

By Dan Gearino

Cities Stand to Win Big With the Inflation Reduction Act. How Do They Turn This Opportunity Into Results?

Minnesota Emerges as the Midwest’s Leader in the Clean Energy Transition

Rowan Atkinson attends the UK Premiere of "Man Vs Bee" at Everyman Borough Yards on June 19, 2022 in London, England. Credit: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images

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Illinois Advances Access to Chargers to Meet EV Goals

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How Are Hurricanes Connected to Climate Change?

Hurricanes are intensifying faster, reaching further inland and costing billions in damage as the climate warms.

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States Test an Unusual Idea: Tying Electric Utilities’ Profit to Performance

Traditional regulatory frameworks generally allow utilities to make guaranteed returns. Connecticut and Hawaii are experimenting with a new model.

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Your Guide to Understanding the East Coast Smokepocalypse

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Climate Activists Protest the Museum of Modern Art’s Fossil Fuel Donors Outside Its Biggest Fundraising Gala

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Department of Agriculture Conservation Programs Are Giving Millions to Farms That Worsen Climate Change

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Determined to Forge Ahead With Canal Expansion, Army Corps Unveils Testing Plan for Contaminants in Matagorda Bay in Texas

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It’s the Features, Stupid: EV Market Share Is Growing Because the Vehicles Keep Getting Better

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Record Investment Merely Scratches the Surface of Fixing Black America’s Water Crisis

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Food Shocks: Climate Change and the Coming Famines

Solar Opposites: A Standoff Over Renewable Energy in Rural America

The Superfund Next Door: Toxins & Mistrust in Atlanta

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

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

Cleveland’s Tree Canopy Is in Trouble

Log and Burn, or Leave Alone? Indiana Residents Fight US Forest Service Over the Future of Hoosier National Forest

This Texas Community Has Waited Decades for Running Water. Could Hydro-Panels Help?

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