Politics
The political dramas and policy choices that are shaping the global response to the existential threat of climate change.
Reducing Methane From Livestock Is Critical for Stabilizing the Climate, but Congress Continues to Block Farms From Reporting Emissions Anyway
By Georgina Gustin, Phil McKenna
An Alabama Landfill Has Repeatedly Violated State Environmental Laws. State Regulators Waited Almost 20 Years to Crack Down
By Lee Hedgepeth
For One Environmentalist, Warning Black Women About Dangerous Beauty Products Allows Them to Own Their Health
By Victoria St. Martin
Rural Arizona Has Gone Decades Without Groundwater Regulations. That Could Soon Change.
By Wyatt Myskow
EPA Begins a Review Process That Could Bring an End to Toxic, Flammable Vinyl Chloride
By Kiley Bense
Thousands of Oil and Gas Wastewater Spills Threaten Property, Groundwater, Wildlife and Livestock Across Texas
By Martha Pskowski
Longleaf Pine Restoration—a Major Climate Effort in the South—Curbs Its Ambitions to Meet Harsh Realities
By Marianne Lavelle, and Sarah Whites-Koditschek and Dennis Pillion of AL.com
The Biden Administration’s Scaled-Back Lease Proposal For Atlantic Offshore Wind Projects Prompts Questions, Criticism
By Aman Azhar
Q&A: The Sort of ‘Breakthrough’ Moment Came in Dubai When the Nations of the World Agreed to Transition Away From Fossil Fuels
Interview by Steve Curwood, "Living on Earth"
Q&A: Catherine Coleman Flowers Talks COP28, Rural Alabama, and the Path Toward a ‘Just Transition’
By Lee Hedgepeth
The U.S. May Not Have Won Over Critics in Dubai, But the Biden Administration Helped Keep the Process Alive
By Marianne Lavelle
COP28 Does Not Deliver Clear Path to Fossil Fuel Phase Out
By Bob Berwyn
A New UN ‘Roadmap’ Lays Out a Global Vision for Food Security and Emissions Reductions
By Georgina Gustin
Vivek Ramaswamy Called ‘the Climate Change Agenda’ a Hoax in Alabama’s First-Ever Presidential Debate. What Did University of Alabama Students Think?
By Lee Hedgepeth
US Climate Activists at COP28 Slam Their Home Country for Hypocrisy
By Bob Berwyn
US Lawmakers Confer With World Leaders at COP28
By Bob Berwyn