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There are ‘forever chemicals’ in beef now
How toxic PFAS made their way from sewage to fertilizer to beef in Michigan.
What states stand to gain if Biden hikes oil and gas royalty rates
The federal government might finally charge oil companies more to drill on public land. Here’s how much money Western states have been missing out on.
Study: Maintenance is a major driver of unaccounted-for emissions
We’ve got a lot of old oil and gas infrastructure, and it’s leakier than we thought.
Maybe green energy needs ‘information batteries’ too
Researchers are exploring whether new strategies can get tech giants to use clean power when it’s plentiful, so utilities can avoid burning fossil fuels when it’s not.
US flood risk is about to explode — but not for the reasons you think
A new study projects that the number of Americans exposed to flooding will double in 30 years. Development is largely to blame.
Great Barrier Reef on verge of another mass bleaching after highest temperatures on record
‘Shocked and concerned’ US government scientists say heat stress over Australia’s ocean jewel is unprecedented.
This senator thought he had given his 279th and final speech on climate change. He was wrong.
With climate action stalled, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is reviving his "Time to Wake Up" speeches.
‘Obsessed with optics’: The paradoxes of the UAE’s plan to get to net zero
The UAE was my home. Its policies could make it uninhabitable.
2021 was a landmark year for energy efficiency legislation in US states
Now comes the hard part.
‘The Shaman’s Apprentice’ is an antidote to ‘Don’t Look Up’
Searching for solutions, Zacharias Kunuk’s latest film takes a grounded, Indigenous approach.
Electric vehicles are here. How can we make them equitable?
There is an urgent need to make clean transportation equitable and widely accessible.
New York environmental justice leaders propose new definition for ‘disadvantaged communities’
New York wants clean energy to benefit “disadvantaged communities.” First it had to define them.
Kanye West and the dark twisted fantasy of shale country chic
A pair of discontinued Red Wings has spurred the latest hypebeast craze.
How to cool one of the fastest-warming cities in the West
In Phoenix, a new heat office hopes to prevent more people from dying of extreme heat.
Biden administration moves to restore mercury rules for power plants weakened under Trump
EPA reaffirmed its authority to regulate mercury and other hazardous air pollutants amid push to curb power plant emissions.
What voting rights mean for the planet
The inextricable link between voting rights and environmental justice
There’s a hurricane-sized hole in Texas air quality data
A new report finds Texas regulators often miss pollution because its air monitors are disabled during hurricanes.
Exxon locked workers out of their jobs. Can workers lock Exxon out of a carbon capture deal?
A union is warning Texas officials not to give Exxon money for carbon capture until it fixes its labor problems.
Nanoplastic pollution found at both of Earth’s poles for first time
Tiny particles including tire dust found in ice cores stretching back 50 years, showing global plastic contamination.