Scott Pruitt Is Doing Just Fine as a Coal Consultant
Tom Williams, CQ/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Where’s Scott Pruitt now?” is a question I’ve gotten a lot in the six months since the former Environmental Protection Agency administrator resigned under a mountain of investigations into possible ethics violations. If you know anything about Pruitt, the answer will not come as…
Six Times the Environment Won in 2018
George Rose/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. By all accounts, 2018 had its share of big environmental bummers. Scientists calmly explained that our current rate of warming will cause geological changes akin to a meteor striking the Earth.…
The EPA’s Latest Move Risks Exposing the Public to More Mercury
Aaron Lavinsky, Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Children and pregnant women hear the warnings against eating too much fish because of potential exposure to mercury. But where does that mercury come from? Coal and oil-burning plants are the number one source of mercury in the US, and they leech not just that neurotoxin but arsenic, acid gasses, and…
Power Plant Explosion Casts New Light on New York’s Addiction to Dirty Fuel
This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. ASTORIA, NY—The transformer explosion that illuminated the New York City skyline late Thursday night came from one of the state’s dirtiest plants, casting new light on the city’s dependence on antiquated oil-burning power stations and bolstering calls for cleaner electricity. This…
Want Clean Air? Let’s Talk Climate Change.
cyano66/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For years, air quality and climate change have been like star-crossed lovers—inextricably linked, but never quite finding their way to each other in environmental policy and dialogue. Well in 2018, the…
Light Pollution Has Made Stargazing Impossible in Most Places—But Not in National Parks
Moment via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a crisp September night, the rocky coastline around Sand Beach in Acadia National Park feels like the edge of the world. A rapt audience is gathered in…