Climate Deniers Are Hounding Educators Again
A girl works on an Earth Day project.Davide Zanin/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Carolyn McGrath thought she was ready for her testimony in front of the New Jersey Department of Education. An art teacher, she had dressed in a jaunty polka-dot blouse and chunky green necklace,…
Wildfires in Canada: Fires Are Burning With Greater Destructive Intensity Over Much Longer Seasons
Northern Alberta forest fires comes south to blanket the downtown area in Calgary, Canada.Larry MacDougal/The Canadian Press/AP This article originally appeared in The Globe and Mail. John Vaillant’s latest book is Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast. We weren’t a week into May before 30,000 people had been evacuated because of dozens of fast-moving wildfires in Alberta. Structure…
EPA Ends Trump-Era Bid to Kill Pollution Rules for Plastics Recycling
Jay Schabel, president of the plastics division at Brightmark, at the firm’s new recycling plant in northeast Indiana, which aims to turn plastic waste into diesel, naphtha, and wax. James Bruggers This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Reversing its own Trump-era proposal, the US…
Ohio Staters Grapple With Bill That Stifles Climate Speech
State Sen. Jerry Cirino, the bill’s lead sponsor, on the Ohio Senate floor.Ohio Senate This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Keely Fisher chose to pursue her Ph.D. at Ohio State University because she wanted to learn about climate change from a world-class faculty. Now one…
Environmentalists Are Livid Over Tentative Debt-Ceiling Deal
A construction crew bores a tunnel for a section of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Roanoke County, Virginia.Heather Rousseau/The Roanoke Times/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The deal to raise the US debt ceiling will have significant ramifications for the climate and nature, by fast-tracking a…
Montana GOP Just Passed an Aggressive Law to Thwart Climate Science
A helicopter crew battles a wildfire in northwestern Montana, August 2022. Don & Melinda Crawford/UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Montana Republican lawmakers have passed legislation that bars state agencies from considering climate change when permitting large projects that require environmental…