Has the farm bill hit a dead end?
Gristby Frida Garza17d ago
Last Tuesday, Senator Mitch McConnell returned to Congress after a three-month absence and promptly cast a deciding vote in the Republican-led agricultural committee.
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top 94%Former EPA officials: Trump is letting data centers make people sick
Gristby Sophie Hurwitz18d ago
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Federal court rules there is no constitutional right to safe drinking water
Gristby Adam Mahoney, Capital B19d ago
A federal appeals court has used a decades-long water crisis in one of the Blackest cities in America to rule that the U.S.
In Savannah, Georgia’s utility regulators faced public wrath over data centers
Gristby Emily Jones20d ago
Georgia’s Public Service Commission, or PSC — the group that has final say over how the state’s largest electric utility generates electricity and how much it charges customers — regularly hears...
The fate of the Endangered Species Act rests on 2 simple words
Gristby Kate Yoder20d ago
The Endangered Species Act has stood as a pillar of conservation in the United States since 1973, bringing animals like bald eagles, manatees, and humpback whales back from the brink of extinction.
Juneau can’t stop the floods, but it’s learning to see them coming
Gristby Marina Lopes21d ago
Two years ago, John Lowrey woke to the roar of water surging into his home. The 65-year-old retiree and father of five rushed toward his basement just as a 3-foot wave slammed through the door...
A trip down the road that will determine the fate of the Amazon
Gristby Joaquim Salles21d ago
For much of his career, Carlos Santos’ job involved being stranded in the middle of the Amazon. Santos is a truck driver on the BR-319, a hazardous dirt highway in Brazil that cuts through a...
She governs a US territory. But she has no say in who mines its waters.
Gristby Sachi Kitajima Mulkey22d ago
Lou Leon Guerrero, the governor of Guam, learned about the government’s plan to mine her people’s waters the same way everyone else did: by reading the news.
As Russia attacks Ukraine’s grid, solar offers a path to resilience
Gristby Anna Conkling22d ago
On a spring day earlier this year, 10 men stood on the rooftop of a door manufacturing facility in the central Ukrainian town of Bila Tserkva, surveying the rows of solar panels that surrounded...
Yes, this summer really was as hot as you think it was
Gristby Matt Simon22d ago
Let’s put this summer’s extraordinary heat in perspective. Last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed what so many Americans suspected, that the heat has been extra...
Gray whales are starving as the Arctic warms. Will the US protect them?
Gristby Sachi Kitajima Mulkey23d ago
Several hundred scientists, government officials, and environmentalists gathered for an unusual two-day conference in Newport, Oregon, last week, entirely focused on a single species: gray whales.
Trump topples the last pillar of Biden’s climate agenda
Gristby Jake Bittle23d ago
Coal is by far the dirtiest of the world’s major energy sources. It accounts for almost half of the cumulative global carbon emissions since the industrial era began — as much as oil and natural...
America’s air monitors are disappearing. So is your power to expose polluters.
Gristby Brad Racino, Floodlight25d ago
Across much of the U.S., people have little way to know when the air they breathe turns dangerous.
As extreme weather worsens, Black and Hispanic homeowners are paying more for insurance
Gristby Amy Green, Inside Climate News26d ago
Homeowners in Hispanic and Black communities nationwide are paying a disproportionate share of skyrocketing home insurance costs, according to a recent report.
A federal judge just told Trump there's no ‘emergency' to justify keeping a Michigan coal plant open
Gristby Kate Yoder26d ago
The Department of Energy overstepped when it ordered an aging coal-fired power plant in Michigan to stay open past its planned retirement date last year, a federal court ruled on Friday.
America’s houseplants come at a steep price for greenhouse workers
Gristby Katie Myers26d ago
On Tuesday, the day after Labor Day, a small band of activists marched past the gates of a sprawling plant nursery in Leicester, North Carolina, outside of Asheville.
More than 70% of new solar is being built in states that voted for Trump
Gristby Austin Corona28d ago
States that voted for Trump are leading the country in solar adoption. In recent years, Republican opposition to solar has mounted, with the Trump administration making it more difficult to build...
What the record-high cost of diesel means for you
Gristby Tik Root28d ago
Diesel prices hit an all-time high on Friday. Then another, and another. According to AAA, the average price of diesel as of September 10 stands at a staggering $5.98 — about $2.31 more than in...
Georgia bet big on EV manufacturing. Trump pulled the plug.
Gristby Emily Jones29d ago
For years, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has been working to make the state a welcoming home for clean energy manufacturing — EVs, solar panels, batteries for storage.
Wendell Berry's life on Earth
Gristby Katie Myers29d ago
Wendell Berry made his choices and stuck to them. He did not have a computer or a smartphone. He wrote more than 50 books of poetry, fiction, and essays, mostly with a pencil and paper, from his...