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With Build Back Better Stalled, Expanded Funding for a Civilian Climate Corps Hangs in the Balance

The original bill called for up to $30 billion in funding for the Corps. But whether it will remain in the slimmed-down version of the bill, expected to be brought to the floor this month, remains to be seen.

By Samantha Hurley

Americorps National Civilian Community Corps team working on trail maintenance and construction at Hawk Mountain. Credit: Tim Leedy/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images
An off-shore oil platform off the coast in Huntington Beach on Sunday, April 5, 2020. Credit: Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Biden Administration Opens New Public Lands and Waters to Fossil Fuel Drilling, Disappointing Environmentalists

By Nicholas Kusnetz

People walk down a flooded street as they evacuate their homes after the area was inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey on Aug. 28, 2017 in Houston, Texas. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Red States Still Pose a Major Threat to Biden’s Justice40 Initiative, Activists Warn

By Kristoffer Tigue

Joseph Goffman faces questioning from Senators during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday. Credit: Senate Environment & Public Works Committee

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

By Marianne Lavelle

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

Climate Migrants Lack a Clear Path to Asylum in the US

By Aydali Campa

Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks during a Republican leadership forum at Newtown Athletic Club on May 11, 2022 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

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

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A gas flare in a Total oil refining plant is seen near Port Arthur, Texas on Aug. 28, 2020. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Activists Laud Biden’s New Environmental Justice Appointee, But Concerns Linger Over Equity and Funding

By Kristoffer Tigue

Workers for Ideal Energy install solar panels on the roof of a natural foods store in Fairfield, Iowa. Credit: Ideal Energy

Inside Clean Energy: Navigating the U.S. Solar Industry’s Spring of Discontent

By Dan Gearino

Solar panels combined with generators provide electricity on Mona Island, Puerto Rico. Credit: David S. Holloway/Getty Images

Puerto Rico Is Struggling to Meet Its Clean Energy Goals, Despite Biden’s Support

By Kristoffer Tigue

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

Carbon Capture Takes Center Stage, But Is Its Promise an Illusion?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Climate activists demonstrate outside as the Supreme Court hears arguments in the case of West Virginia vs. EPA on Monday. Credit: Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for NRDC

Conservative Justices Express Some Support for Limiting Biden’s Ability to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Marianne Lavelle

Transmission towers carry power lines through Suffolk County in Commack, New York on Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. Credit: John Paraskevas/Newsday RM via Getty Images

New Faces on a Vital National Commission Could Help Speed a Clean Energy Transition

By James Bruggers

Ukrainian Military Forces servicemen of the 92nd mechanized brigade use tanks, self-propelled guns and other armored vehicles to conduct live-fire exercises near the town of Chuguev, in the Kharkiv region, on Feb. 10, 2022. Credit: Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images

How the Ukraine Conflict Looms as a Turning Point in Russia’s Uneasy Energy Relationship with the European Union

By Marianne Lavelle

Pipe systems and shut-off devices are seen at the gas receiving station of the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline. Credit: Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images

How Climate and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Undergirds the Ukraine-Russia Standoff

By Marianne Lavelle

The shadow of a bush plane falls on the landscape of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The reserve includes the proposed Willow project. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

ConocoPhillips’ Plan for Extracting Half-a-Billion Barrels of Crude in Alaska’s Fragile Arctic Presents a Defining Moment for Joe Biden

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during his re-nominations hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill Jan. 11, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Heading for a Second Term, Fed Chair Jerome Powell Bucks a Global Trend on Climate Change

By Marianne Lavelle

President Joe Biden speaks to the press after attending a meeting with the Senate Democratic Caucus on Capitol Hill, on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Amid Delayed Action and White House Staff Resignations, Activists Wonder What’s Next for Biden’s Environmental Agenda

By Kristoffer Tigue, Ariel Gans

An oil pumpjack works on Jan. 19, 2016 in Sweetwater, Texas. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

On the Defensive a Year Ago, the American Petroleum Institute Is Back With Bravado

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Heavy machinery excavate and carry coal ash from drained coal ash pond in Dumfries, Virginia on June 26, 2015. Credit: Kate Patterson for The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Biden Administration Takes Action on Toxic Coal Ash Waste, Targeting Leniency by the Trump EPA

By James Bruggers

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