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Senate Committee Seeks Intel on Polluters’ Efforts to Kill Critical EPA Rule

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the wake of the Trump administration’s announcement that it will overturn the rule which underpins virtually all US climate regulations, a Senate committee has launched an investigation into a suspected lobbying push that led to the move. On Tuesday, […]

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Trump’s War on Wind Power Has One Very Big Exception

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As Donald Trump rolled down the 18th fairway at his Turnberry golf resort in July, he was troubled by a deathly vision, slowly spinning in the Scottish distance: wind turbines. “These things are massive, and you’re looking at these ugly windmills, and it’s a shame,” Trump lamented in an interview with the New York Post—yet […]

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North America’s First Battery-Grade Cobalt Refinery Is Proposed—in Canada

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This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ontario is backing a $100-million investment to build North America’s first battery-grade cobalt refinery, aimed at supporting the country’s electric vehicle production at a time when the industry is struggling with slowing sales and a deepening trade war with the US. Led […]

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Can We Feed 10 Billion People Without Destroying the Planet in the Process?

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This story was originally published by Grist in partnership with the Chicago public radio station WBEZ. It is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. . When veteran journalist Michael Grunwald set out to write his third book, he was determined not to produce a “Debbie Downer.” And he hasn’t. That’s surprising considering his latest book, We’re Eating the […]

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The Data Center Building Boom Is Running Into Local Resistance

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This story was originally published by the High Country News in partnership with the Puente News Collaborative and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sunland Park, New Mexico, is not a notably online community. Retirees have settled in mobile homes around the small border town, just over the state line from El Paso. Some don’t own […]

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This Researcher Studied How Climate Change Hurts Children — Trump Shut Her Down

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Jane Clougherty spent years studying how extreme weather affects kids’ health. Trump’s EPA cancelled her work.

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Given the Benefits of This California Solar Project, It’s Amazing How Rare It Is

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A novel solar power project just went online in California’s Central Valley, with panels that span across canals in the vast agricultural region. The 1.6-megawatt installation, called Project Nexus, was fully completed late last month. The $20 million state-funded pilot has turned stretches of […]

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Study Links Oil Giants’ Emissions Directly to Dozens of Deadly Heatwaves

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Carbon emissions from the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies have been directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for the first time, according to a new analysis. The research has been hailed as a “leap forward” in the legal battle […]

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The Threat That Could Destroy 20 Years of Progress in the Lower Ninth

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This story was published in partnership with Capital B. Willie Calhoun knows how to live with water. His home, cradled between the Mississippi River and a patchwork of canals, is split by the surging, ever-present current. But it wasn’t always that way in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. Before the city’s largest aqueduct, known as the […]

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Utilities Are Usually Hostile to Solar and Battery Systems, but Not for These Rural Customers

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Michael Gillogly, manager of the Pepperwood Preserve, understands the wildfire risk that power lines pose firsthand. The 3,200-acre nature reserve in Sonoma County, California, burned in 2017 when a privately owned electrical system sparked a fire. It burned again in 2019 during a conflagration started by power lines operated by utility […]

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Nobody Wants This Dirty Gas Plant. Trump is Forcing It To Stay Open.

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration, citing an ongoing “energy emergency,” has once again saddled a community already overburdened by pollution with a dirty, obsolete power plant it doesn’t want or need. The decision has confounded residents and environmental justice advocates, who called the […]

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We Can Remove Toxic Forever Chemicals From Drinking Water. Why Aren’t We?

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A new study finds that technologies installed to remove “forever chemicals” from drinking water are also doing double-duty by removing harmful other materials—including some substances that have been linked to certain types of cancer. The study, published Thursday in the journal ACS ES&T Water, […]

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