Politics
The political dramas and policy choices that are shaping the global response to the existential threat of climate change.
2023 in Climate News: Did Renewable Energy’s Surge Keep Pace With a Radically Warming Climate?
By ICN Staff
‘Major’ Problem in Texas: How Big Polluters Evade Federal Law and Get Away With It
By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News; and Alejandra Martinez, Texas Tribune
The Climate Treadmill Speeds Up At COP28, But Critics Say It’s Still Not Going Anywhere
By Bob Berwyn
In Alabama, What Does It Take to Shut Down a Surface Mine Operating Without Permits?
By Lee Hedgepeth
A BLM Proposal to Protect Wildlife Corridors Could Restore the West’s ‘Veins and Arteries’
By Adam Goldstein
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
