stLouISTThis 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.
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‘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.
In blow to Biden administration, judge halts oil and gas leases in Gulf of Mexico
Biden has outpaced Trump in selling oil and gas permits on public lands. A federal judge has temporarily paused "runaway drilling."
Chile is in for a mining boom. Could a new constitution prevent environmental catastrophe?
Advocates hope to enshrine the rights of nature and Indigenous protections into law.
Extreme weather is destroying more crops. Taxpayers are footing the bill.
Climate change is straining agricultural insurance systems in the US.
Electric vehicles drive up demand for ‘green metals’
The need for energy-transition metals breathes life into new mines in the West.
Your gas stove is warming the climate — even when it’s turned off
A new study says methane leaks aren't limited to oil and gas wells and pipelines.
Yes, there’s a climate change version of Wordle now
“You want the tiles to turn green, just like the planet."
In historic vote, Los Angeles will phase out oil drilling
Once a magnet for urban oil drilling, the city now moves to curb its dependence on fossil fuel production.