Solar Power Isn’t Just for the Rich (Anymore)
Community groups want to bring more solar energy to New York.Mario Tama / Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At a happy hour in Midtown Manhattan, Luis Pineiro and Jose Hernandez have…
Haunting Poems and Photos From a State Torn by Fracking
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Julia Spicher Kasdorf pulled off Pennsylvania’s Route 15 on her way upstate in 2012, she noticed something she’d never seen before. Across the highway, by the restaurant where she and her husband stopped for lunch, helicopters dangling strange pendants were hovering over the mountainside.…
New Documents Show the Trump Administration Cut Climate Change Impacts from its Energy Plan
Aaron Lavinsky/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thus far, the Trump administration has seemed to make it a point to ignore the very real threat of global warming in its policy and unabashedly censor climate science on government websites, reports, and speeches. It should come as a shock to no one, then, that the administration’s recent rollback…
President Trump Backs Megadonor Foster Friess for Wyoming Governor
Republican mega-donor Foster Friess at the 40th Annual Conservative Political Action Conference.Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Foster Friess, the Republican megadonor running for governor in Wyoming, has President Trump’s “complete and total Endorsement,” according to a tweet sent early Tuesday as polls opened in the state.…
Supreme Court Says Kids Can Sue Trump Over Climate Change
Youth plaintiffs, attorneys, and staff from Our Children’s Trust at the federal courthouse in Eugene after a hearing in the Juliana v. United States climate change lawsuit in June.Robin Loznak via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration’s effort to stop a…
Lawmakers Just Stripped Anti-Environment Riders from the Defense Bill
the greater sage grouseJeannie Stafford/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a rare victory for environmentalists in the Trump era, the latest draft of a major defense spending bill has been stripped of provisions that targeted environmental protections, according to documents from the House-Senate Conference Committee released early this week. The policy riders…