North Carolina Braces for Another Flood of Hog Poop
A hog operation with a lagoon in Sampson County, on North Carolina’s coastal plain.Matt Butler, Sound Rivers/Waterkeeper Alliance/Flicker It’s emerging as an annual rite: A massive hurricane roars across North Carolina and deposits epic amounts of water on the state’s coastal plain, home to a tangle of rivers intertwined with one of the globe’s most…
4 Automakers Sided With California Over Air Pollution. Now Trump’s DOJ Is Investigating Them.
Marcos Assis/Getty This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Justice Department has reportedly opened an antitrust investigation into four major automakers that struck a deal with California on vehicle-emissions standards in July, sidestepping opposition from the White House. The automakers―Ford Motor Co., BMW AG, Volkswagen…
The 2020 Dems Have No Serious Plan for Addressing the Single Biggest Source of US Pollution
CNN, Zuma The CNN Climate Crisis Town Hall made it clear that Democrats are encountering a much stronger appetite than ever before from their base for substantive action to address climate change. Even though the baseline for what constitutes a strong climate action plan has changed, there are still rifts among the candidates on the…
Retreat from Rising Seas? It May Be Controversial, but It’s the World’s New Reality.
A home is seen inundated with water from Hurricane Florence as it passed through North Carolina during September 2018.Joe Raedle/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Indonesia just found itself a new capital. The country’s president, Joko Widodo, announced last Monday that the new seat of government will be…
Here’s Why the Carolinas Are So Much More Vulnerable to a Hurricane Like Dorian Right Now
NASA Puerto Rico has escaped the worst of Hurricane Dorian. And it looks like Florida might, too: On Saturday morning, the storm again shifted paths, and it appears likely to skirt Florida’s eastern coast instead of making a direct hit. That doesn’t mean the danger is over for Florida, and it does put the rest…
“The Amazon Stays, Bolsonaro Goes”: Protesters in Brazil Demand Action on Rainforest Fires
Smokes rises from forest fires in Brazil’s Amazon basin, on August 27, 2019.Joao Laet/AFP/Getty This story was originally published by National Observer and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last Friday, in the streets outside the government buildings in Brazil’s capital city, I walked with nearly a thousand people in desperate concern over the relentless…