“It’s a Nightmare”: Americans’ Health Is at Risk as the Shutdown Slashes the EPA
Employees of the Environmental Protection Agency examine runoff and test for PCB levels in Minden, West Virginia.Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US government shutdown has stymied environmental testing and inspections,…
Scott Pruitt Is Facing Yet Another Scandal Thanks to His Legal Defense Fund
Chris Kleponis/CNP/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scott Pruitt left a long trail of investigations behind when he exited the Environmental Protection Agency last July to lead a private life as a coal consultant. On Thursday, four Democratic senators added yet another concern to the pile, requesting more information from…
The Costly, Complicated Process of Cleaning Up a Toxic River
Tyler Tjomsland/Spokesman Review/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. East of Spokane, Washington, the ghost of decades-old industrial pollution still haunts the groundwater. Laden with chemicals that can cause cancer and developmental disabilities, the subsurface…
Antarctic Sea Ice Is “Astonishingly” Low This Melt Season
DeAgostini/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Right now, on the shores of Antarctica, there’s open water crashing against the largest ice shelf in the world. The annual ice-free season has begun at the Ross Ice Shelf—a…
California Moves, Haltingly, Toward a Post-Lawn Future
Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by CityLab. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the first Saturday of December in a northeast neighborhood of Fresno, California, Jeff Collins and his neighbors were putting up their Christmas decorations: strings of lights along identical…
Beto O’Rourke Says He’s “Supportive of the Concept” of a Green New Deal
The term surged into mainstream political discourse just two months ago when activists staged a protest in now–House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, demanding that the incoming Democratic majority in the House champion a sweeping climate policy to zero out greenhouse gas emissions and combat worsening income inequality. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) proposed a resolution to…