Gas-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers may become ancient history as several cities and states across the U.S. are beginning to enact bans of the fossil-fueled powered devices to combat both noise
Situated in the Sonoran Desert where temperatures have already been hitting the high 90s in April, the greater Phoenix area is the epicenter of heat-associated deaths in the U.S. Extreme heat poses
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Friday to reinstate tariffs on solar power imports from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, which supply most of the country’s supply of solar panels. 12 Democrats
Europe's frantic race to build LNG infrastructure will lock in massive climate pollution for decades, leave billions of euros and dollars in stranded assets, or both, a new Greenpeace report warns. The
Old questions are rising as the ground around oil and gas operations is sinking in Texas oil and gas country, E&E reports. Four sinkholes have developed in the 1.48 square-mile town of
Record heat across Europe and Asia augurs peril for electrical grids across the Northern Hemisphere. Portugal, Spain, and Morocco all broke April heat records on Thursday, with Córdoba, in south-central Spain, breaking
Private equity powerhouse The Carlyle Group's portfolio was responsible for as much climate pollution from 2011-2021 as ConocoPhillips' Willow Arctic oil project will emit over its lifetime, a new report from Private
Climate change makes droughts like that currently devastating East Africa at least 100 times more likely and the catastrophic humanitarian crisis there would not have happened without climate change, a new report
Residents along the Upper Mississippi River are scrambling to protect or flee their homes ahead of potentially record-breaking floods. The heavy snowpack in northern Minnesota is melting rapidly, forcing residents of Campbell,
Residents of yet another South Florida condominium were forced to quickly evacuate on Tuesday after an engineering inspection raised "serious concerns" about the building's structural integrity. The 63-year-old Majestic Isle condominium in
Major venture capitalists announced an initiative on Tuesday to cut their own climate pollution as well as that of the firms in which they invest. The 23 firms that make up the
Wide swaths of the West and Midwest are, or are threatened with, flooding driven by snowmelt. A heatwave set to descend on the West Coast this week is expected to rapidly accelerate
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday effectively rejected appeals by multiple oil and gas companies to have cases brought against them heard in federal court. The Supreme Court declined to hear the
Six activists from around the world were awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize, often known as the "Green Nobel Prize," on Monday. Alessandra Korap Munduruku, a leader of the Munduruku Indigenous people in
Nine European countries announced plans to both expand and increase interconnection between renewable energy generation on and around the North Sea on Monday. The various projects, including building offshore windfarms and developing
President Biden on Friday signed an executive order creating a new Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) within the White House Council on Environmental Quality. The EO directs federal agencies to work closer
The EPA is preparing to announce new rules requiring the elimination or capture of greenhouse gas pollution from coal- and gas-fired power plants. Power plants are the source of about one-quarter of
Audio recordings obtained by the Washington Post reveal the American Gas Association plans to spend $4 million dollars on a campaign to overturn a Eugene, Oregon, electrification ordinance, in what the industry
President Biden pledged $1.5 billion for international climate and deforestation funding on Thursday. During the virtual gathering of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, which collectively accounts for about 80%
Wide swaths of Madagascar face catastrophic food insecurity following the one-two-three punch of cyclones in about a year, the AP reports. Cyclone Batsirai slammed the island in February 2022, followed two weeks
Last year's climate-fueled disasters really were that bad, the UN World Meteorological Organization confirmed this morning. The concurrent droughts, flooding, heat, and wildfires and the knock-on effects they cause, all represent the
At least one-third of people on Earth are currently experiencing record-breaking heat. The "worst April heat wave in Asian history," per climatologist and weather historian Maximiliano Herrera, spans more than 12 countries
Rapidly melting ice sheets at the Earth's poles and atop its mountain ranges has drastic local and far-flung impacts — all exacerbated by climate change — an interactive NPR series illustrates. Feedback
Brazoria County, Texas, has given away an average of $2 million in tax breaks for every job created by the businesses those incentives attracted, a report from AutoCase Economic Advisory, commissioned by
Property insurers in Texas are increasingly at risk of insolvency and some are pulling out of the market altogether, potentially forcing property owners across the state to pay for damages if another
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are buying Russian oil products, the Wall Street Journal reports. The countries are using the deeply-discounted Russian oil for domestic consumption and refining, thus boosting
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday struck down a building code ordinance passed by Berkeley, California, which, with some exceptions, banned new residential and
The U.S. oil and gas industry emitted 70% more methane pollution than EPA estimated from 2010-2019, research published Monday in PNAS Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences reveals. The study used satellites to
Systemic inequities and racism contribute to compoundingly disparate impacts of climate-fueled disasters. Racist policy decisions to underinvest in communities of color leave them especially vulnerable to extreme and climate-fueled weather disasters. “I
Leaders from the world's seven largest economies pledged to accelerate the clean energy transition on Sunday, but failed to set a timetable for ending new coal and methane gas investments. Ahead of
The Department of Energy late last week reapproved a proposal to export liquified methane gas extracted from Alaska's North Slope, giving the Biden administration's imprimatur to a project first signed off upon
A record-obliterating storm deluged the Fort Lauderdale area on Wednesday, triggering dangerous floods, knocking out power for the city's main hospital, shutting down a major airport, and turning streets into rivers. The
Louisiana oil and gas wells wasted more than 27 billion cubic feet of planet-heating methane into the atmosphere — more than 80% of it from leaks — in 2019, a new Synapse
Climate change is making droughts hit harder and faster, giving farmers even less time to prepare, a study published Thursday in Science finds. In addition to the impacts on regular droughts, so-called
As annual shareholder meetings approach, public companies are expected to face a record number of environment- and climate-related shareholder resolutions, but major firms are pushing back against them, Bloomberg reports. Approximately 30%
California's record-breaking, building-crushing snowpack threatens to bring dangerous flooding to California's Central Valley in the near-term and through the rest of the year — dangers exacerbated by recent wildfires and illustrative of
Wind and solar energy accounted for the vast majority in new electricity demand worldwide, limiting global climate pollution growth from the power sector even as coal-fired generation rose slightly, Ember's annual Global
Following western states' continued failure to reach agreement on how to reduce their water usage, the Biden administration outlined three options for addressing the Colorado River crisis on Tuesday — none of
The Biden administration on Tuesday proposed new rules to dramatically reduce pollution from vehicles ranging from passenger cars to semi trucks. The new safeguards, which will be publicly announced today, would require
The Bureau of Land Management approved a major transmission line on Tuesday that will deliver wind-generated electricity from Wyoming to California. The 732-mile TransWest Express Transmission Project will carry power produced by
When Winter Storm Uri froze power plants across Texas in February of 2021, approximately 700 people died, and millions more paid outrageous prices for power, despite the outages. Part of those sky-high
The White House released the first proposed overhaul of how the government evaluates proposed regulations on Thursday, suggesting changes to the regulatory process not updated in at least 20 years. The new
Climate change is increasing the number of dingers hit in Major League Baseball by about 50 home runs per year, or 500 since 2010, a study published Friday in the Bulletin of
The EPA will announce major new limits on cars' tailpipe pollution on Wednesday that could dramatically increase the number of Electric Vehicles sold in the U.S. in less than a decade. The
Indigenous leaders from Canada First Nations and Black community leaders from Louisiana were blocked from entering the Royal Bank of Canada Annual General Meeting in what is now known as Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
Tennessee Republicans voted to expel two Black lawmakers — but not one white representative — from the state legislature in an unprecedented act of partisan retaliation for disrupting proceedings during a protest
Efforts to electrify homes are driving Dominion Energy and National Grid, two of the country's largest utilities, to consider selling off some of the methane gas pipelines, the Wall Street Journal reports.
New research shows an ice sheet over what is now Norway melted as much as 2,000 feet in one day about 15,000 years ago — far faster than scientists had ever previously
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday walked back a proposal to weaken the state's landmark climate law in the face of significant public pressure on the issue. The proposed changes, included
For the first time in more than a decade, EPA will strengthen limits on mercury and other toxic pollution from coal-fired power plants, the agency announced Wednesday. The new rule will cut
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