Erin Schulte, Author at Inside Climate News

Buckboard Marina

Emergency Drawdown at Flaming Gorge Hits Its Recreation Economy

Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile and Hannah Romero, Green River Star

Lake Mead, the largest reservoir on the Colorado River, is plunging, causing hydropower generation at Hoover Dam to decline.

Hoover Dam Approaches a Hydropower Cliff

Brett Walton, Circle of Blue

A section of lead pipe that supplied drinking water to a home in Troy, N.Y. is removed on May 20, 2024. Credit: Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images

Biden’s Clean Drinking Water Plan Is Being Rebranded as MAHA

Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Grist

A person travels through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in September 2019 in northern Minnesota. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Just Lost Protection From Mining

By Ana Radelat, MinnPost

A plastic Starbucks cup.

Your ‘Widely Recyclable’ Starbucks Cup Is Still Trash

Joseph Winters, Grist

Sunlight glimmers on the Colorado River near Page, Ariz. on Nov. 2, 2022. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Colorado River Negotiations Resume With Focus on Stopgap Measures

Scott Franz, KUNC

A parched desert.

The Planet Is Overheating, But You Might Not Know It From the News

Kate Yoder, Grist

Curious Holstein dairy cows feed on silage in a freestall barn at a large California dairy.

There Are 10 Million Tons of Manure Missing in California

Seth Millstein, Sentient

Early morning sunlight hits canyon walls on Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area on July 10, 2025 in Page, Arizona. Lake Powell, a critical Colorado River reservoir, is only at a third of its capacity as drought conditions in the Southwest worsen. Credit: Rebecca Noble via Getty Images

States Blast Federal Playbook of Potential Colorado River Options

Scott Franz, KUNC

Epic’s corporate headquarters in Verona, Wis., features a geothermal heating and cooling network buried beneath the buildings. Credit: Courtesy of Epic

The Promising Renewable Energy That Democrats and Republicans Actually Agree On

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 3. Credit: Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images

How Trump’s Withdrawal From Climate Treaties May Ultimately Play Out

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Debra Ramirez said oil refining operations by petrochemical plants have systematically dismantled her Lake Charles, Louisiana, community.

Venezuelan Oil Brought to the U.S. Would Be Refined in Black Gulf Communities

Adam Mahoney, Capital B

Health Care Providers Are Dropping a Common Anesthesia Drug That’s Also a Climate Super Pollutant

By Phil McKenna

Peru LNG plant.

U.S. Company Releasing Unauthorized Emissions From Peru LNG Terminal

By Maria Alejandra Gonzales and Wil Crisp, Convoca

The flowers are yellow against a green backdrop

You’re Not Imagining It: Your Pollen Allergies Are Lasting Longer

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”

Grief, Hope, Joy: Faith in the Time of Climate Change

By Nina Dietz

Milton Denney loads up bottled water for distribution to residents of Santee, Neb. High levels of manganese in the tribe’s water may have adverse effects on the central nervous systems of people who consume it. Credit: Jerry L Mennenga/Flatwater Free Press

After Five Years Without Drinkable Water, a Nebraska Town Asks: When Will Our Tap Water Be Safe?

By Destiny Herbers, Flatwater Free Press

Swimmers in Lake Erie.

Cleveland Resilience Projects Could Boost Communities’ Access to Water and Green Spaces

By Kathiann M. Kowalski

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