stLouISTCalifornia takes the lead on curbing Big Oil price gouging
The state's pioneering law could set limits on the industry's profits, and impose fines on those that exceed it.
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Melting Antarctic ice may strangle vital ocean currents
Models show that currents could slow by more than 40 percent within 30 years, with potentially devastating effects on the ocean's ability to store carbon.
The natural gas pushback
Local communities want to electrify, but gas interests have other ideas.
Who buys electric cars in California — and who doesn’t?
Electric cars are almost nonexistent in Black, Latino, low-income, and rural communities — revealing the enormous task that California faces electrifying the entire fleet.
American cities want to recycle their plastic trash in Mexico. Critics call it ‘waste colonialism.’
A new recycling plant in Mexicali raises legal and ethical concerns.
Biden administration releases road map to scale up nuclear, hydrogen, and energy storage
The reports address key challenges and potential solutions for getting these clean energy technologies off the ground.
The tiny island nation of Vanuatu just scored a big climate win
It convinced the UN to urge the world's highest court to rule on whether polluting nations must address climate change
Canadian security forces arrest Wet’suwet’en protesters in clash over pipeline construction
“This harassment and intimidation is exactly the kind of violence designed to drive us from our homelands.”
The next farm bill could be a historic climate law – if Congress can agree on it
Will the legislation help turn agriculture, a climate problem, into a climate solution?
It’s been a place of worship for centuries. Now a copper mine threatens its future.
Resolution Copper is one court ruling away from destroying one of the Apaches’ holiest sites.
How climate change made the Mississippi tornadoes more likely
A new study explores the link between rising temperatures and more deadly tornadoes.
California regulator fines manufacturer for knowingly exposing workers to toxic chemical
Parter Medical Products was fined more than $800,000 for exposing its workers to dangerously high levels of the carcinogen ethylene oxide.
Rising groundwater levels are threatening clean air and water across the country
As subterranean water inches higher, so do threats to air and water.
US renewable power surged ahead of coal for the first time last year
Experts say the trend still isn’t fast enough to stop the worst impacts of climate change.
The ghost of Tulare Lake returns, flooding California’s Central Valley
Draining the lake allowed agriculture to thrive, but left the region vulnerable to floods.
A spill outside Philadelphia adds to the growing list of chemical accidents this year
There have already been 50 chemical spills or fires in the U.S. this year, and it's only March.
Want to sequester carbon? Save wild animals.
Gray wolves, elephants, wildebeests, and sea otters are a few of the species that can help keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C.
How the natural gas industry cozies up to utility regulators
Sponsorships, stacked panels, dance parties: Inside utilities' campaign to convince regulators of the bright future for natural gas.
Report: Texas fracking is exacerbating the PFAS crisis
A "staggering volume" of PFAS are being injected into fracked wells.
The shift to a green energy future is renewing plantation-era water wars in Hawaii
A proposed hydro project in Kauai — the first of its kind in the world — could supply up to a quarter of the island’s power by diverting 4 billion gallons a year from the Waimea River.