Michigan’s New Clean Energy Bill Signals a “Huge Shift”
Michael Brochstein/Zuma This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Michigan is set to become the third state in the Midwest and twelfth in the country to require a shift to clean electricity. Of all those states, Michigan is one of the most ambitious because of the extent…
How a Retiree Rallied Neighbors to Scuttle a Multistate Carbon Pipeline
Kathleen Campbell at her rural home just south of Springfield, Illinois. Courtesy Kathleen Campbell This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. After half a decade of failed attempts, Kathleen Campbell thought 2021 would finally be the year she retired. That is—until she received a letter in…
US Military Owes at Least $106 Billion for Climate Damage Since 2015
Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur/ZUMA This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US and UK militaries “owe” at least $111 billion in reparations to communities most harmed by their planet-heating pollution, a first-of-its-kind study calculates. The research employs a “social cost of carbon” framework—a way…
Louisiana’s New Governor Is a Major Fossil Fuel Booster
Drew Angerer/Getty Images/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Climate change looms larger in Louisiana than it does almost anywhere else in the United States. The state is facing down monster hurricanes as well as sea-level rise, and it still relies on a fossil fuel industry that…
Up for Reelection, Kentucky’s Democratic Governor Avoids Climate Change Talk
Michael Swensen/Getty Images/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Kentucky’s Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, has been called the state’s “consoler-in-chief.” He’s presided over a period of extreme weather in the state, from tornadoes that leveled entire towns in the farmlands of western Kentucky, to record flooding that washed…
“Carbon Bomb” Financiers Threaten World’s Ability to Curb Warming
Richard B. Levine/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Banks pumped more than $150 billion last year into companies whose giant “carbon bomb” projects could destroy the last chance of stopping the planet heating to dangerous levels, the Guardian can reveal. The carbon bombs—425 extraction projects…