Alaska Natives Beg Biden to Halt Massive Oil Project
Inupiat wildlife guide Robert Thompson speaks at a protest near the White House on March 3, 2023.Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto via AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Environmental and Indigenous activists rallied outside the White House last Friday, calling on President Joe Biden to reject a…
Super-Emitting “Methane Bombs” Are a Dire Threat to Humanity
Methane is flared at at a North Dakota oil well pad in May 2021.Matthew Brown/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than 1,000 “super-emitter” sites gushed the potent greenhouse gas methane into the global atmosphere in 2022, the Guardian can reveal, mostly from oil and gas…
Biden’s Climate Spending Is a Big Win for Red-State Economies
During his State of the Union address, Biden teased Republicans who opposed the Inflation Reduction Act but were happy to take credit for the projects it funded.Jacquelyn Martin/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Georgia, a state once known for its peaches and peanuts, is rapidly becoming…
The $400 Billion Man Running America’s Clean Energy Transition
Jigar Shah, director of the Department of Energy’s loan programs office in Washington, D.C. Mother Jones; US Energy Department/Wikimedia This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Deep in the confines of the hulking, brutalist headquarters of the US Department of Energy, down one of its long, starkly…
The Future of American Environmental Protests May be Unfolding in a Forest Outside Atlanta
A demonstrator holds a sign protesting the death of activist Manuel Teran, who went by Tortuguita, in Atlanta on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023. Tortuguita was killed Wednesday, Jan. 18, after authorities said the 26-year-old shot a state trooper. They are the first environmental activist killed by law enforcement in the United States. R.J. Rico/AP Fight…
England Will Ban Single-Use Cutlery and Plates
Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images This story was originally published by Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Single-use items such as plastic cutlery, plates, and trays are to be banned in England in a bid to reduce pollution, the government has confirmed. Figures suggest that every year England uses about 1.1 billion single-use plates and 4.25 billion pieces…