State Legislatures Are Cracking Down on Foreign Land Ownership
High Country News/Library of Congress This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Chinese surveillance balloon seen over Montana in January riled up state legislatures and got them asking the question: How much control should foreign countries have over US land and natural resources? Senate…
Four Miles Downwind From East Palestine
The view of the smoke funneling up from the controlled burn, as seen from a drone on Dave Anderson’s farm.Dave Anderson This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If the Norfolk Southern train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, last month had slid off the tracks seven minutes…
Alaska Natives Beg Biden to Halt Massive Oil Project
Inupiat wildlife guide Robert Thompson speaks at a protest near the White House on March 3, 2023.Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto via AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Environmental and Indigenous activists rallied outside the White House last Friday, calling on President Joe Biden to reject a…
Super-Emitting “Methane Bombs” Are a Dire Threat to Humanity
Methane is flared at at a North Dakota oil well pad in May 2021.Matthew Brown/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than 1,000 “super-emitter” sites gushed the potent greenhouse gas methane into the global atmosphere in 2022, the Guardian can reveal, mostly from oil and gas…
Biden’s Climate Spending Is a Big Win for Red-State Economies
During his State of the Union address, Biden teased Republicans who opposed the Inflation Reduction Act but were happy to take credit for the projects it funded.Jacquelyn Martin/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Georgia, a state once known for its peaches and peanuts, is rapidly becoming…
Whale Deaths Are Now Culture War Fodder
A humpback whale washed up on the shore of Lido Beach in Long Island, New York, on January 31, 2023.Kena Betancur / Getty This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Thousands gathered at New Jersey’s Point Pleasant beach on Sunday with a united mission: to pause offshore…