To Block Solar Energy Projects, One Community Lumped Them in With Junkyards and Adult Bookstores - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Dan Gearino·5h ago
In Montgomery County, Indiana, utility-scale solar projects appear on an official list of undesirable land uses that also includes “adult-oriented businesses.” So it wasn’t surprising that the...
Maryland Demands Answers as Fuel Leak Persists From Joint Base Andrews - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Aman Azhar·9h ago
Maryland environmental regulators say jet fuel continues to seep into Piscataway Creek from Joint Base Andrews more than six months after the spill was reported, despite the base’s assurances that...
In Harrisburg, Advocates Rally for Tougher Rules on Fracking - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Marie Cusick·9h ago
Environmental groups and citizens are urging Pennsylvania regulators to increase the minimum amount of protective buffer space between gas wells and homes, schools and water sources.
Compounding Climate Impacts Drive Tropical Forest Decline - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Bob Berwyn·21h ago
Ozone pollution from fires, along with extreme heat and drought, is further weakening the Amazon rainforest’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide, new research shows.
The American Livestock Industry’s Main Lobbying Group Treated Climate Change as a PR Problem - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Georgina Gustin·22h ago
In 1991, Random House published a picture book called “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: ABC’s for a Better Planet,” in which the masked cartoon turtles trade in their signature nunchucks for signs...
Maine’s Next Governor Will Walk a Tightrope Between Energy Affordability and Climate Action - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Delger Erdenesanaa, The Maine Monitor·1d ago
As Mainers prepare to choose a new governor in November, climate and energy issues may not be top of mind for every voter—but they are having big effects on residents’ lives.
New Documents Add to Evidence in Climate Deception Case Against ExxonMobil - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Nicholas Kusnetz·1d ago
If there was a year the world began waking up to climate change, it might have been 1988. That June, the NASA climatologist James Hansen testified to Congress that the climate was warming and would...
Alabama Sets Stricter Data Center Rules. But There’s a Loophole. - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Dennis Pillion·1d ago
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—The Alabama Public Service Commission approved a new set of rules for future data center projects Tuesday that require more transparency and disclosure from data center companies...
Scientists Urge Consumers to Stop Buying Products Made From Antarctic Krill - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Teresa Tomassoni·1d ago
In the Southern Ocean, whales, penguins, seals and seabirds feast on massive swarms of krill that underpin much of the region’s marine food web.
Retailers Warn Europe’s Fishing Industry to Stop Overfishing - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Johnny Sturgeon·1d ago
Europe’s fish stocks are in such dire straits that even the retailers who rely on them are now telling the fishing industry to slow down.
Water Bills Surged More Than Other Costs in US Homes Over 10 Years, a ‘Striking’ New Report Shows - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Steven Rodas·2d ago
Drinking water costs spiked faster than inflation, grocery prices and median household income, researchers at nonprofit Food & Water Watch outlined in a first-of-its-kind report released Tuesday.
Development Becomes a Flashpoint in a Key New York House Race - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Leana Carbonez·2d ago
NY-17: The third in a series on the environmental stakes behind one of the nation’s most fiercely contested congressional races.
Final “Grandmother” Cottonwood Toppled, Protesters Arrested in Arizona - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Stephanie Casanova, AZ Luminaria·2d ago
Armed Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall...
Supreme Court Weighs Landmark Climate Deception Case Against Oil Companies - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Nicholas Kusnetz·2d ago
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments from oil companies on Monday that could help decide the fate of more than two dozen lawsuits accusing the industry of deceiving the public about climate...
New York Is Running Out of Room for Its Trash - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Lauren Dalban·3d ago
New York City is running out of places to dump its trash. In the latest draft of the city’s once-a-decade solid waste management plan, the sanitation department warns that the landfills receiving...
New California Law Aims to Stop 'Predatory' Developers from Moving In on Wildfire-Ravaged Community - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Steven Rodas, Nina Dietz·4d ago
ALTADENA, Calif.—Sylvie Andrews walks among the brilliant white poppies, purple California grapes and olive-green thorns surrounding her yard’s blackened pizza oven—one of the only things that...
A Colorado Water Trial Could Decide the Future of an Agricultural Valley - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Emily Payne·4d ago
Water regulators and farmers in Colorado’s San Luis Valley are in a lose-lose situation. Either they adopt a plan to aggressively manage the use of groundwater from their rapidly declining aquifer...
‘Nature-Based’ Solutions Could Save Insurers and Policyholders Billions - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Emmett Gartner·5d ago
After years trudging through marshes around San Francisco Bay studying conservation practices, coastal ecologist Megan Kelso realized that one of the largest determinants of wetland health may not...
SEC Move Would Make it Harder for Shareholders to Push Companies on Climate Action - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Dimuthu Attanayake·5d ago
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wants to scrap a rule that allows shareholders to formally petition companies, one of the ways that shareholder advocacy groups have pressed for more...
Our Future Might Be Darker—and That’s a Good Thing - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth·5d ago
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with author Craig Childs. Think about the darkest sky you’ve ever seen.
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