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Biden’s Pick for the EPA’s Top Air Pollution Job Finds Himself Caught in the Crossfire

At his confirmation hearing, Joseph Goffman was assailed by coal state Republicans for contemplating too much regulation, while Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse chastised him and his agency colleagues for doing too little.

Forecasters Tap High-Tech Tools as US Warns of Another Unusually Active Hurricane Season

Predictions of hurricane paths have improved markedly, but their intensity remains difficult to forecast. Air and water drones could change that.

Today’s Climate: A Safety Consultant for Shell Just Quit Her Job. Here’s Why Climate Activists Celebrated

Qantas Says Synthetic Fuel Could Power Long Flights by Mid-2030s

By James Fernyhough, The Financial Times

New Study Says World Must Cut Short-Lived Climate Pollutants as Well as Carbon Dioxide to Meet Paris Agreement Goals

As SpaceX Grows, So Do Complaints From Environmentalists, Indigenous Groups and Brownsville Residents

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

Clean Break: Germany’s Energy Transformation

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Warming Trends: Forests Are the Best Big-City Water Filters, Plus Veggie Burgers by Default, Sea Songs by ET’s Doctor and a Reminder to Eat Fresh Food in the Fridge

A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier.

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Warming Trends: Weather Guarantees for Your Vacation, Plus the Benefits of Microbial Proteins and an Urban Bias Against the Environment

New Research Shows Aerosol Emissions May Have Masked Global Warming’s Supercharging of Tropical Storms

A portion of an aqueduct to move water to the east side of the San Joaquin Valley, is viewed on July 8, 2021, thirty minutes east of Fresno, California. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Politics & Policy

Climate Migrants Lack a Clear Path to Asylum in the US

People displaced by climate change must show they face violence or persecution in their home countries to enter the U.S. legally. Advocates say it’s time to recognize climate as cause enough.

By Aydali Campa

In the Race for Pennsylvania’s Open U.S. Senate Seat, Candidates from Both Parties Support Fracking and Hardly Mention Climate Change

A Climate Progressive Leads a Crowded Democratic Field for Pittsburgh’s 12th Congressional District Seat

Immigrants from Colombia, who are family members seeking asylum, wait beneath an improvised tent for U.S. Border Patrol agents to arrive to be processed after they crossed the border from Mexico on May 19, 2022 in Yuma, Arizona. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Justice

New York Is Facing a Pandemic-Fueled Home Energy Crisis, With No End in Sight

More than a million households are 60 days in arrears on their energy bills, with an average of $1,427.71 in debt, and shut-offs are increasing.

By Quratulain Tejani

Lead Poisonings of Children in Baltimore Are Down, but Lead Contamination Still Poses a Major Threat, a New Report Says

Study Identifies Outdoor Air Pollution as the ‘Largest Existential Threat to Human and Planetary Health’

Power lines are seen as the New York City Skyline is in the background on Feb. 1, 2018 in Staten Island, New York. Credit: Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images

The Central Valley Water Board says such “produced water” is safe for irrigating crops in Kern County but never reviewed its long-term impacts on plants, soil, crops and wildlife. “We know enough to know we better be careful,” one scientist said.

By Liza Gross

Q&A: The Activist Investor Who Shook Up the Board at ExxonMobil, on How—or if—it Changed the Company

In the Philippines, a Landmark Finding Moves Fossil Fuel Companies’ Climate Liability into the Realm of Human Rights

Clean Energy

International Commission Votes to Allow Use of More Climate-Friendly Refrigerants in AC and Heat Pumps

The new guidelines could save the equivalent of billions of metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, but the U.S. could prove slow to adopt them.

By Phil McKenna

Inside Clean Energy: Flow Batteries Could Be a Big Part of Our Energy Storage Future. So What’s a Flow Battery?

Inside Clean Energy: In a World Starved for Lithium, Researchers Develop a Method to Get It from Water

An air source heat pump repairman from Valiant replaces a Wilo pump inside an air source heat pump unit at a house in Folkestone, United Kingdom on Dec. 23, 2021. Credit: Andrew Aitchison/In pictures via Getty Images

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Biden’s Pick for the EPA’s Top Air Pollution Job Finds Himself Caught in the Crossfire

At his confirmation hearing, Joseph Goffman was assailed by coal state Republicans for contemplating too much regulation, while Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse chastised him and his agency colleagues for doing too little.

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Forecasters Tap High-Tech Tools as US Warns of Another Unusually Active Hurricane Season

Predictions of hurricane paths have improved markedly, but their intensity remains difficult to forecast. Air and water drones could change that.

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Today’s Climate: A Safety Consultant for Shell Just Quit Her Job. Here’s Why Climate Activists Celebrated

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Qantas Says Synthetic Fuel Could Power Long Flights by Mid-2030s

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New Study Says World Must Cut Short-Lived Climate Pollutants as Well as Carbon Dioxide to Meet Paris Agreement Goals

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As SpaceX Grows, So Do Complaints From Environmentalists, Indigenous Groups and Brownsville Residents

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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

Clean Break: Germany’s Energy Transformation

Warming Trends: Forests Are the Best Big-City Water Filters, Plus Veggie Burgers by Default, Sea Songs by ET’s Doctor and a Reminder to Eat Fresh Food in the Fridge

Climate Migrants Lack a Clear Path to Asylum in the US

New York Is Facing a Pandemic-Fueled Home Energy Crisis, With No End in Sight

California Water Regulators Still Haven’t Considered the Growing Body of Research on the Risks of Oil Field Wastewater

International Commission Votes to Allow Use of More Climate-Friendly Refrigerants in AC and Heat Pumps

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