Southwest Louisiana has been ravaged by numerous, powerful hurricanes in recent years and the methane-based gas and petrochemical industry has turned the region into a hub of operations–forcing local residents to live
Experts and advocates are calling on the Biden administration to explicitly include race in its definition of "disadvantaged" communities for the purposes of its environmental justice efforts while the administration worries about
This year's Goldman Environmental Prizes honor activists, many of them Indigenous, who took on major, entrenched, and powerful interests in their local contexts, and won. (The Guardian) In Los Angeles, Nalleli Cobo
Oil and gas companies are increasingly using mergers and acquisitions to offload emissions from their own balance sheets as a way to meet corporate climate targets without actually reducing emissions, according to
The Biden administration green-lit the export of an additional half a billion cubic feet of LNG to Europe, DOE announced Wednesday. The orders would allow liquified "natural gas," which is mostly methane,
In Kentucky, coal mines that were operated by now-bankrupt companies are racking up violations of regulations that are meant to protect the public and the environment from destructive impacts of strip mining
President Biden announced the U.S. will release 1 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve every day for the next six months. The massive scale of the release — 3.6
As the White House opens a request for information on whether digital assets “impede or advance efforts to tackle climate change,” a new campaign launched to “Change the Code Not The Climate.”
The U.S. and EU announced, this morning, a joint Task Force to reduce Europe’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels. Under the agreement, the U.S. will work with international partners and “strive to
Salomón López Smith, a leader of the Mayangna Indigenous community in what is now Nicaragua, was brutally tortured and murdered, allegedly, by invading settlers. Systematically targeted by ethnic cleansing for centuries, Indigenous
New research is examining fuller perspectives on the lethality of hurricanes and tropical cyclones and revealing disproportionate harm upon women and people of color. Death rates in areas hit by tropical cyclones
Republican efforts to blame President Biden's climate policies for rising gasoline prices and the Russian invasion of Ukraine are unmoored from factual reality, Politico Pro reports. GOP candidates and elected officials claim
The once-obscure Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will now consider proposed gas infrastructure's impacts on climate change and affected communities of color and low-income communities. Adopted by a 3-2 vote on party lines,
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
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On a windy September afternoon in northern Nevada, where her family has lived for generations, Daranda Hinkey fought back tears as she read a description of an 1865 massacre that killed at
This could be the last winter Billy Barr measures snowfall in Gothic, Colorado. Barr, 71 years-old and for decades the only resident of the abandoned mining town, has measured the amount and
On a sunny day last August, Daniel Malechuk opened the door to a 77,000-square-foot warehouse just outside Atlanta. Inside, under the soft magenta glow of LED lights, grew five varieties of hydroponic
Curtis Means, 16 months, lived his first 275 days in the neonatal ICU and is now officially the world's most premature infant to survive to its first birthday, Guinness World Records certified
Current fossil fuel extraction plans are "dangerously out of sync" and on track to heat the planet to a point scientists say will see catastrophic impacts from the climate crisis, a new
West Virginia senator Joe Manchin's objection to a key climate provision of Democrats' infrastructure legislation would benefit many of his most important constituents. West Virginians, on the other hand, are suffering under
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