The Water Loophole That Leaves Arizonans Parched—and Developers Richer
Mario Tama/Getty/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When a small Arizona community called Rio Verde Foothills lost its water supply one year ago, forcing locals to skip showers and eat off paper plates, it became a poster child for unwise desert development. The rural neighborhood of about…
Electric Vehicles Just Became More Affordable
Joe Biden at the grand opening of General Motors Factory ZERO. Dominick Sokotoff/ZUMA This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A change to the federal EV incentive that took effect Monday could widen access for low and middle-income buyers who want to go electric but have been…
Your Utility Bills May Be Funding the Gas Lobby
Marijan Murat/dpa/Zuma This story was originally published by Slate and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The winter between 1917 and 1918 was a trying one for the gas industry. That year, household gas leaks had reportedly killed more than 300 New Yorkers—due to their own carelessness, the gas companies argued. But not everyone…
Excessive Heat and Air Pollution Are Putting Farmworkers’ Lives at Risk
Gosia Wozniacka/AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For most of July 2019, stifling heat hung over the agricultural fields of California’s Central Valley, as farmworkers like William Salas Jiminez labored under the sun’s searing rays. Temperatures had dipped from 99 to 95 degrees…
Scores of Farmworkers Are Dying in the Heat
Gosia Wozniacka/AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For most of July 2019, stifling heat hung over the agricultural fields of California’s Central Valley, as farmworkers like William Salas Jiminez labored under the sun’s searing rays. Temperatures had dipped from 99 to 95 degrees…
New Year, Same Congress: Politicians Block Livestock Emission Reporting Rules
Alexander Polegenko/TASS/Zuma This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Anyone feeling compelled to look into a bill passed recently by the House of Representatives will see some familiar language. It may seem wonky—the concern of agriculture or climate policy geeks. But the language relates to one of…