California’s Huge Wildfires Will Likely Have “Serious Health Effects” All Over the West
Mark McKenna/ZUMA Wire 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. As climate change helps push up the number of wildfires in the western US, communities face losing lives and properties to the flames. But another threat also looms…
Hot Weather Strains the Grid. Here’s How We Could Fix That.
Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO via ZUMA Press 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. Electricity crackled and arced between wires as Los Angeles residents watched, filming with their phones. And then the power died. As temperatures have soared this summer,…
These States Are Going to War Over Trump Eliminating Car Emissions Rules
Drivers enter Sacramento on Highway 50 Rich Pedroncelli/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, in one of the Trump administration’s most aggressive attacks on the environment yet, the White House proposed to cut Obama-era fuel economy standards that would have dramatically reduced harmful air pollution in the next decade.…
The Trump Administration Just Launched a “Brazen Attack” on Clean Air Standards
The demands showed a marked shift from 2012, when automakers, two of which had just received massive taxpayer-funded federal bailouts, agreed to increase standards after months of negotiations with federal and California regulators. But by 2016, fuel prices had fallen from a record high national average of $3.60 per gallon four years earlier, and Americans…
Scientists Just Announced a Terrifying New Heat Record
Vallauri Nicolas/Maxppp via ZUMA Press 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. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on Earth that didn’t feature an El Niño, a periodic climatic event that warms the Pacific Ocean, according to…
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…