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…
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…
Big Utilities Are “Diabolical, Man!”
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. On the long list of things standing in the way of the green energy transition, utilities are up at the top. So…
Arizona Utility Just Won’t Let This Historic Black Community Be
The stacks of the Salt River Project generating station near Randolph, Arizona. Caitlin O’Hara/Guardian This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A handful of weary residents gathered at the windowless Randolph church to mull over the latest effort by an electric utility to expand its power station—a…
New Study Finds Gas Stoves a Key Cause of US Childhood Asthma
Around 650,000 American children, researchers estimate, may be suffering asthma attacks caused by gas stoves in their homes.Getty Images This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. About one in eight cases of asthma in children in the United States is due to the pollution given off by cooking…
Manchin’s Permitting Reform Could Lead to More Oil Pipeline Spills
Mill Creek near Washington, Kansas, was contaminated by crude from this week’s Keystone pipeline rupture. US EPA This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Crews continued to clean up the blackened banks of a northern Kansas creek Tuesday morning after a rupture in the Keystone pipeline…