Last year was the sixth-hottest on record and all of the seven hottest years have occurred in the last seven years, NOAA, NASA, and Berkeley Earth scientists announced yesterday. Different scientific entities
The largest source of leaks of the potent greenhouse gas methane may be the spider web of largely unregulated pipes transporting it from drilling sites to processing facilities, according to new research
The Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration's rule that all employers must require their employees to either receive the safe, free, and effective Covid-19 vaccine or undergo regular testing. The majority
A second Permian Basin company is facing an SEC lawsuit for defrauding its investors, Earther reports. Just a week after the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Heartland Group Ventures LLC, a Permian
Devastating floods submerged nearly 3,000 square kilometers (1,158 sq. miles) of the northeast Indian state of Bihar in August 2017, killing 815 people and displacing nearly 900,000. They also set off a
Sunshine State senators on Tuesday advanced a utility-backed bill to restrict residents' ability to install solar panels on their homes. The bill, which would alter net metering rates so as to make
The Bureau of Land Management said this week it intends to only allow oil and gas companies to drill in half of a vast, largely untrammeled swath of northern Alaska, instead of
A surge in all-time temperature records across the U.S. in 2021 is a clear indicator of climate change, the New York Times reports. More all-time temperature records were broken last year than
Extreme weather killed more than the 688 people included in NOAA's Monday report on 2021’s billion dollar disasters, Buzzfeed reports. In addition to events intentionally excluded from the report, like August flooding
Twenty extreme weather disasters killed 688 people in the U.S. last year and collectively inflicted at least $145 billion in damage, NOAA reported Monday. 2021 was the deadliest year for climate extremes
The apartment fire that killed 17 people in the Bronx on Sunday illustrates the urgent energy and environmental justice imperatives for improving building efficiency. Reports indicate the fire was started by a
The world's oceans broke heat records, again, in 2021, according to new research from a team of 23 international scientists analyzing thousands of ocean temperature readings. The “ocean stores more than 90%
Evidence of links between firefighting and fertility problems is mounting, but the most definitive conclusion so far is that the effects of firefighting on people who give birth are woefully under-studied, Grist
The SEC alleges a Permian Basin fracking company defrauded investors in order to set up a Ponzi scheme and buy a private jet, a helicopter, and Bahamian real estate. Heartland Group Ventures
U.S. greenhouse gas pollution increased 6.2% in 2021 over 2020 levels, fueled by a 17% jump in coal-fired electricity, according to a Rhodium report released this morning. While an increase in greenhouse
President Biden will visit Colorado today to tour the Marshall Fire damage in Boulder County. Biden will be joined by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Rep. Joe Neguse on the tour. The
Measures to reduce air pollution from medium- and heavy-duty trucks in six states could reduce pollution currently disproportionately harming communities of color nationwide, Bloomberg reports. Oregon, Washington, New York, New Jersey, and
Urban air pollution killed more than 1.8 million people in 2019, according to new research published in The Lancet Planetary Health. Nearly 9 in 10 people living in urban areas (about 2.5
More than 40% of people in the U.S. live in a county hit by climate-related extreme weather in 2021, a Washington Post analysis of federal disaster declarations found. Additionally, more than 80%
The Meraux pipeline spilled 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel a few hundred feet from the Mississippi River last week from rupture at known but unrepaired corrosion damage, E&E reports. PBF Energy Inc.
The United States exported more LNG than any other nation for the first time in December. More than 7 million tons of liquified methane-based gas left U.S. shores, more than Qatar or
West Virginia senator Joe Manchin voiced support for climate provisions in the Build Back Better Act Tuesday, telling reporters, “The climate thing is one that we probably can come to an agreement
FEMA disaster relief programs, “often fail to deliver assistance to those with the greatest need” and worsen "the continued 'wealth gap' in the United States,” a report by the agency’s National Advisory
The world's largest floating solar power array is now online in China's Shandong province. The 320 MW facility built by Huaneng Power International is expected to generate around 550 GWh per year,
A raging urban firestorm fueled by hurricane-force winds incinerated nearly 1,000 homes and structures in and around Boulder, CO in just one day, making it the most destructive wildfire in the state's
The ten worst extreme weather disasters in 2021 caused more than $170 billion in insured losses, according to a report from Christian Aid, a UK NGO. The full costs are certainly higher,
Netflix's star-studded satirical climate allegory Don't Look Up debuted for streaming on Christmas Eve as the platform's top movie. Reactions were mixed about the thinly-veiled allegorical saga of politicians ignoring scientists about
Sixteen members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus wrote a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency yesterday asking it to strengthen recently proposed rules aimed at cutting methane emissions. The letter applauds the news rules,
The Borough of Islington in London has devised a plan to use excess, otherwise-wasted thermal energy generated by the London Underground to heat hundreds of homes and buildings. The move would cut
Christmas this year--and in the future--might not look how it used to thanks to human-caused climate change. Snow on Christmas is unlikely for most of the US this year, and some cities
The Department of Interior approved two large new solar farms in Riverside County, California yesterday. The Arica and Victory Pass solar projects are expected to generate up to 465 megawatts of power
If the Build Back Better Act does not become law it will be difficult, if not impossible, for the US to meet President Biden’s goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half
Florida Power & Light, the largest energy company in the US, is pushing for policies that hurt the rooftop solar industry in Florida, an investigation by Floodlight and the Miami Herald found.
Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius said in a note to clients yesterday that it was lowering its economic growth predictions for 2022 after changing its previous assumption that the Build Back
The Environmental Protection Agency finalized the strongest-ever federal clean car standards for the model years 2023-2026 yesterday, strengthening them from the lower Trump-era emissions standards. This represents one of the most significant
The Financial Stability Oversight Council warned about the risk climate change-driven extreme weather poses to the financial system for the first time in its annual report to Congress on Friday. “Increased frequency
Extreme weather in several countries over the weekend has led to hundreds of deaths and hundreds of thousands of people displaced. The death toll from Category 5 Super Typhoon Rai, which hit
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), who famously shot a literal hole through the 2009 Cap and Trade bill, said Sunday he “could not” vote for the Build Back Better Act, likely dooming the
The United Mine Workers of America rallied in support of the Build Back Better Act, calling on Sen. Joe Manchin, who was named an honorary member of the union last year, to
Google is failing to enforce its promised new policy to not display climate denial ads or monetize YouTube videos with climate disinformation, according to a report from the Center for Countering Digital
Media outlets made full use of the thesaurus to describe the unprecedented storm system, known as a derecho, that swept across large swaths of the country Wednesday night. At least five people
Super Typhoon Rai, known locally as Odette, slammed into the Philippines on Friday. At least 12 people are confirmed dead and 320,000 people have been evacuated, communications are also down in the
New York City is poised to electrify nearly all new buildings in the coming years after city legislators voted Wednesday for the measure designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions and other air
Indonesian women are tackling two of the world's biggest crises at once, Thomson Reuters reports. On Bengkalis island, the Bengkalis Women Weaving Community make hand sanitizer from mangrove oil and dye masks
About 40% of the world's recoverable oil and gas reserves could be vulnerable to wild weather fueled by climate change, UK consultancy Verisk Maplecroft warned Thursday. Major reserves in Saudi Arabia (extreme
More than three and a half months after Hurricane Ida slammed southeastern Louisiana, many residents still have no electricity, or even a house, but they've still got power bills, the Courier reports.
The Siberian town of Verkhoyansk hit temperatures above 100°F on June 20, 2020, breaking the record for the highest Arctic temperature on record the World Meteorological Organization has confirmed. The announcement comes
More than 40% of 900 Permian Basin oil and gas operations sites had major methane plumes, an aerial survey found. The survey, the eighth of its kind, was conducted by EDF in
Eight workers were killed at a scented candle factory in Kentucky, and another six at an Amazon warehouse in Illinois, by the multistate tornado system over the weekend. The deaths highlight workers'
A key Antarctic ice shelf is in perilous danger of "shatter[ing] like a car windscreen" and thus accelerating the flow of the massive Thwaites Glacier into the Southern Ocean, scientists warned Monday.
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