Supreme Court Delivers Fossil Fuel Firms a Stiff Setback
Graeme Sloan/SIPA USA/AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear five appeals from the fossil fuel industry seeking to move climate change lawsuits it faces to the federal courts. The decision opens the door for Baltimore and other cities, states and counties to…
Climate Protesters Call Out US Banks Over Fossil Fuel Funding
An Extinction Rebellion protester is arrested in front of Citibank’s Manhattan headquarters on April 24.Gina M. Randazzo/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. As they exited their office in Tribeca on Monday afternoon, Citibank employees were confronted with a boisterous crowd chanting and dancing along to the music of a mariachi…
Why Kentucky Is Dead Last in Wind and Solar Energy Production
The United States is on the brink of its most consequential transformation since the New Deal. Read more about what it takes to decarbonize the economy, and what stands in the way, here. This story was originally published by Inside Climate News as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. Andy McDonald recalls a decade-old Kentucky legislative hearing on…
Why Are We So Afraid of Nuclear Power?
The United States is on the brink of its most consequential transformation since the New Deal. Read more about what it takes to decarbonize the economy, and what stands in the way, here. This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Russians forces attacked the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power…
A Colorado Town Tried to Discourage Fossil Fuel Dependency. The Utility Wasn’t Having It.
The United States is on the brink of its most consequential transformation since the New Deal. Read more about it takes to decarbonize the economy, and what stands in the way, here. This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Gunnison, Colorado, at…
2022 Was a Particularly Deadly Year for Land and Environmental Activists
Eraldo Peres/AP This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In February of 2022, Colombian human rights activists Teófilo Acuña and Jorge Tafur were assassinated in front of their friends and families after decades of working to protect small, rural communities from mining and land-grabbing. Their killers have not been…