stLouISTEVs are already making your air cleaner
A study in California finds that even small increases in EV adoption lead to measurable drops in neighborhood-level air pollution.
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How thick is the ice on the Great Lakes? Scientists want your help.
As climate change alters ice cover, researchers are asking for data from locals who are already "in tune with the ice."
A Nebraska utility says that its coal plant poses no ‘significant’ health threat
North Omaha residents, health experts, and two of the utility’s board members aren’t buying it.
Solar farms can be havens for rare plants. Just ask the threecorner milkvetch.
The Mojave Desert species is thriving at a solar farm near Las Vegas, perhaps because the panels slow evaporation.
Climate news is written in a language most people can’t understand
A new report argues that English-only climate science and disaster alerts are excluding most of the world, and putting Indigenous communities at greater risk.
Why the government is trying to make coal cute
Trump said coal needed better PR. Then Coalie showed up.
The winter storm exposed the grid’s real weakness: Lots of old poles
Aging infrastructure is to blame for Winter Storm Fern’s weather outages — and for recent price spikes.
Trump destroyed offshore wind. The Northeast can’t live without it.
To keep the lights on, states like New York and Massachusetts will need to build projects that are currently “impossible.”
Can cities make landlords care about energy efficiency?
New research shows that city and state climate policies often leave renters behind.
An ousted energy regulator reflects on Georgia’s new power politics
Former utility commissioner Tim Echols talks climate change, the Republican party, and how the state will deal with rising power demand.
The EPA wants to eliminate one of the few ways that tribes can protect their water
The agency’s plan would narrow water quality reviews and make it harder for tribes to enforce treaty rights.
Data centers are facing an image problem. The tech industry is spending millions to rebrand them.
Through television ads and online campaigns, industry-backed groups are promising jobs, clean energy, and lower electricity bills.
‘A fraudulent scheme’: New Mexico sues Texas oil companies for walking away from leaking wells
New Mexico’s lawsuit accuses three Texas executives of pocketing revenue from oil and gas wells and offloading cleanup costs to the public. An investigation in 2024 by ProPublica and Capital & Main uncovered some of these business dealings.
This Brooklyn bagel shop is saving money with plug-in batteries
Startup David Energy is giving batteries to its New York City customers to help them reduce hefty demand charges on their monthly utility bills.
Yes, climate change can supercharge a winter storm. Here’s how.
Feel like you're at the North Pole at the moment? There's good reason for that.
Europe gets ‘green energy.’ These Southern towns get dirty air.
In Louisiana and Mississippi, people living near wood-pellet mills say they’re getting sick.
A melting Greenland is easier to exploit — but also more perilous
Climate change is opening up previously inaccessible land and sea, boosting global interest in Greenland.
The climate contradictions in MAHA’s new food pyramid
A Q&A with Sam Kass, a former Obama nutrition advisor, on the Trump administration’s new dietary guidelines and what they mean for the climate.
Greenland is a global model for Indigenous self-governance. Trump’s demands for the island threaten that.
Historians say underpinning Trump's talk of national security lies a longstanding pattern of American entitlement to Native land.
The Trump EPA ended the ‘green new scam.’ A year later, communities are still paying the price.
Across the country, communities that lost grants have responded in a variety of ways — suing the government, searching for other funds, or simply moving on.