A Bill Would Let Miners Dump Waste on Federal Lands Where They Have No Claim
The Rosemont Copper Company operates in the Santa Rita mountains, located in southeast Arizona.Esther Frances/Inside Climate News This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. After the House of Representatives passed legislation that would allow mining companies more legal rights to federal lands by a bipartisan vote of…
These Young Alaskans Are Suing the State to Stop a $39B Gas Pipeline
Near Bear Glacier, Seward, Alaska.Andrew Harnik/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Eight young people are suing the government of Alaska—the nation’s fastest-warming state—claiming a major new fossil fuel project violates their state constitutional rights. The state-owned Alaska Gasline Development Corporation has proposed a $38.7 billion gas export project…
Trump Doubles Down, Seeking Fossil Fuel Cash at Private Houston Lunch
Donald Trump speaks outside his criminal hush-money trial in Manhattan. Mark Peterson/Pool Photo/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump was continuing to ask fossil-fuel executives to fund his presidential campaign on Wednesday, despite scrutiny of his relationship with the industry. The former president attended a fundraising luncheon at…
Island Nations Notch a Climate Win From World’s Maritime Court
Leaders from island nations arrive for a hearing at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Seas in 2023 in Hamburg, GermanyGregor Fischer/AFP/Getty/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Island nations in the Pacific, Caribbean, and West Indies won a major international legal victory this week that…
Biden Administration Under Pressure to End New Deepwater Oil Export Facilities
Oil rigs off the coast of Galveston, Texas Carol M. Highsmith/Planet Pix/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Joe Biden’s administration is coming under renewed pressure to escalate its curbs on the US’s booming trade in fossil fuels by halting new deepwater oil-export facilities, as well as entrenching…
The “Good Deal” Trump Allegedly Offered Oil Execs Might Be Worth $110 Billion
Then President Donald Trump with Harold Hamm, CEO of North Dakota’s largest oil company, at a 2019 industry conference.Evan Vucci/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A “deal” allegedly offered by Donald Trump to Big Oil executives as he sought $1 billion in campaign donations could save the industry…