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On the Eve of Plastics Treaty Talks, a Youth Advocate From Ghana Speaks Out: ‘We Need Urgent Action’

United Nations delegates gathering for a second negotiating session stake out their positions as environmental groups, businesses and scientists seek to influence the outcome of plastic treaty talks.

By James Bruggers

Ghana's Betty Osei Bonsu, representing the Green Africa Youth Organization, a nongovernmental group, will be attending next week’s U.N. negotiating session to develop a legally binding treaty to curb plastic pollution. Credit: World Wildlife Fund.
In a 2018 file photo, workers in Midland, Texas, extracting oil from oil wells in the Permian Basin. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images.

Operator Error Caused 400,000-Gallon Crude Oil Spill Outside Midland, Texas

By Martha Pskowski

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, left, spoke during a press conference with cabinet members including Melissa Hoffer, right, the state's first climate chief. Credit: Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Clean Energy Experts Are Stretched Too Thin

By Dan Gearino

What Is Produced Water?

By Liza Gross, Dylan Baddour

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland testifies during the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the "President's Budget Request for the U.S. Department of the Interior for Fiscal Year 2024," in Dirksen Building on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

A Guardian of Federal Lands, Lambasted by Left and Right

By Grant Schwab

Trash is flattened and spread out across a hilllside before being covered with dirt at the Prima Deshecha landfill in San Juan Capistrano on Thursday, March 10, 2022. Credit: Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Federal Regulations Fail to Contain Methane Emissions from Landfills

By Phil McKenna, Amy Green

A pump jack works in Texas' Permian Basin as the EPA proposes a new rule to reduce methane leaks in oil and gas operations. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

Methane Mitigation in Texas Could Create Thousands of Jobs in the Oil and Gas Sector

By Martha Pskowski

State Rep. Chris Rabb, a Philadelphia Democrat, and Stephanie Wein, a water and conservation advocate at PennEnvironment, a Philadelphia-based advocacy group talk after a press conference at city hall. Credit: Victoria St. Martin

As EPA Proposes Tougher Rules on Emissions, Report Names Pennsylvania as One of America’s Top Polluters

By Victoria St. Martin

A plume of exhaust extends from the Mitchell Power Station, a coal-fired power plant built along the Monongahela River, 20 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, on Sept. 24, 2013 in New Eagle, Pennsylvania. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

New Study Bolsters Case for Pennsylvania to Join Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

By Jon Hurdle

President Joe Biden announces plans to curb planet-warming emissions from the nation's power stations, as part of the efforts to combat climate change, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 11, 2023. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Biden Power Plant Plan Gives Industry Time, Options for Cutting Climate Pollution

By Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz

In a file photo, John Podesta, who became President Joe Biden's chief climate advisor earlier this year. He previously served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and counselor in President Barack Obama's White House. Credit: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images.

Biden’s Top Climate Adviser Signals Support for Permitting Deal with Fossil Fuel Advocates

By Marianne Lavelle

Traffic moves through midtown Manhattan on Aug. 31, 2022 in New York City. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Why New York’s Congestion Pricing Plan Getting Federal Approval Is a Win for Climate Change

By Kristoffer Tigue

Sunrise El Paso members gather on July 25, 2022 outside El Paso City Hall after delivering 39,000 signatures to the city clerk in support of adding the climate charter to the ballot. Credit: Martha Pskowski

Climate Resolution Voted Down in El Paso After Fossil Fuel Interests and Other Opponents Pour More Than $1 Million into Opposition

By Martha Pskowski

Dannie Bolden grew up in this house. He and other North Port St. Joe residents dream of revitalizing their neighborhood and uniting it with the other end of town. “Because of what we see happening on the other side of town, we know it’s possible,” he says. Credit: Amy Green

In the Florida Panhandle, a Black Community’s Progress Is Threatened by a Proposed Liquified Natural Gas Plant

By Amy Green

Two solar workers install solar panels on home in Oak View, Southern California. Credit: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Environmental Groups File Court Challenge on California Rooftop Solar Policy

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Sunrise El Paso members attend a city council meeting on August 2, 2022. The council discussed the verification process for the signatures the organization collected in favor of adding the climate charter to the ballot. Credit: Martha Pskowski

Ambitious Climate Proposition Faces Fossil Fuel Backlash in El Paso

By Martha Pskowski

Cars and trucks move along the Cross Bronx Expressway on Nov. 16, 2021 in New York City. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Inside Biden’s Embattled Climate Agenda. Analysts Say the Fight Is Far From Over

By Kristoffer Tigue

President Joe Biden speaks about the creation of new manufacturing jobs at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. on April 25, 2023. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Vying for a Second Term, Can Biden Repair His Damaged Climate and Environmental Justice Image?

By Kristoffer Tigue

Sen. Paul Pinsky D-District 22, Prince George's County listens to remarks during Opening day at the Maryland General Assembly at the Maryland Statehouse in 2018. Credit: Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Educator, Environmentalist, Union Leader, Senator, Paul Pinsky Now Gets to Turn His Climate Ideals Into Action

By Aman Azhar

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