Utilities Use Customers’ Money to Advance Fossil Fuels. This Coalition Aims to Stop Them.
Protesters gather in front of the American Gas Association to demand that funding from customers’ energy bills not be used to pay for the group’s anti-climate lobbying. Joy Asico-Smith/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A group of advocates and Democratic senators gathered in Washington, DC, on Tuesday…
A New California Bill Aims to Ban Paraquat. Yep, That Toxic Stuff Is Still Around.
Harvesting almonds in Livingston, California.Dave Getzschman/Merced Sun-Star/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When Americans of a certain age hear the word “paraquat,” the first thing that might leap to mind is Mexican weed. That’s because, in the late 1970s, the United States government thought…
Democratic Senators Pressured EPA to Ease Rules on Steel Mill Pollution
Laura Hedien/Getty/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In early March, a small group of Democratic senators from the Rust Belt sent President Joe Biden an urgent letter. They began by extolling the benefits of two of the Biden administration’s biggest achievements, the bipartisan infrastructure law and the…
Utility Fraud and Corruption Are Threatening the Clean Energy Transition
Mother Jones; El Nuevo Herald, Roberto Koltun/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This story was reported by Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action. At a press conference last month, flanked by sheriffs and attorneys, Ohio Attorney General David…
GAO Report Warns Climate Change Could Unearth US Nuclear Waste
U.S. military officers watch nuclear waste being dumped on Runit Island in the Marshall Islands. Department of Defense This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ariana Tibon was in college at the University of Hawaiʻi in 2017 when she saw the photo online: a black-and-white picture of a man…
Producers of “Forever Chemicals” Knew They Were Toxic, Say UN Experts
Aerial views of Cape Fear River in North Carolina, which is surrounded by forests. Ken Blevins/Star News/AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In advance of a United Nations meeting this week where pollution is on the agenda, a UN human rights team has called out…