Trump is backing a diesel export ban. How much would that do?
Gristby Tik Root19d ago
Diesel prices have hit a record high nearly every day this month, with a national average on Tuesday at $6.52 a gallon, according to AAA.
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top 96%Why scientists want your photos of wildlife eating lunch
Gristby Matt Simon19d ago
The food chain you learned about in school isn’t the full picture. Yes, the rat eats your garden crops, the ermine snags the rat, and the eagle picks off the ermine.
Offshore wind job training built for a boom is facing down a bust
Gristby Chris Berdik, The Hechinger Report19d ago
This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.
A clean energy source is buried under the desert, but it takes water to use it
Gristby Austin Corona20d ago
Beneath the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and the deserts in between, lies a massive energy source — and it isn’t a fossil fuel.
Trump wants to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs
Gristby Ellis Juhlin20d ago
There are many ways to enjoy the outdoors, but thrill-seekers visiting the nation’s national forests often turn to motorized recreation.
How Trump’s repeal of the greenhouse gas rule could double new emissions from Georgia
Gristby Emily Jones20d ago
Environmental and public health groups are challenging the Trump administration’s proposal to repeal greenhouse gas standards for power plants — a change that’s likely to increase Georgia’s...
Has the farm bill hit a dead end?
Gristby Frida Garza21d 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.
Former EPA officials: Trump is letting data centers make people sick
Gristby Sophie Hurwitz21d 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 B22d 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 Jones24d 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 Yoder24d 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 Lopes24d 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 Salles25d 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 Mulkey26d 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 Conkling26d 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 Simon26d 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 Mulkey27d 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 Bittle27d 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, Floodlight28d 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 News29d ago
Homeowners in Hispanic and Black communities nationwide are paying a disproportionate share of skyrocketing home insurance costs, according to a recent report.