The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that it would not hear a case seeking to stop climate lawsuits in five Democratic-led states that are seeking financial damages from oil and gas companies for having obscured the connection between their products and global warming. The rejected complaint, filed directly to...
How Citibank got caught in a $20B climate fight
In the chaotic first few weeks of the Trump administration, as the government has frozen and unfrozen billions of dollars in federal funding, Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin has focused on one program in particular. For almost a month, he has been waging a crusade against the EPA’s Greenhouse...
New York approved a major gas pipeline expansion. What does it mean for its climate goals?
The United States is facing a pivotal moment in its fight against climate change as President Donald Trump carries out plans to roll back those efforts. In 2019, when New York passed its landmark Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, or CLCPA, it became a shining example of national climate...
A $250M investment will help this lithium mine get up and running. That’s bad news for these tribes.
A Canadian mining company behind a massive new lithium mine in northern Nevada has received a $250 million investment to complete construction of the new mine — a project that aims to accelerate America’s shift from fossil fuel-powered cars but that has come under fierce criticism from neighboring tribal nations and watchdog...
What Trump’s escalating trade wars mean for your grocery bill
Life these days is expensive. The lingering effects of the pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, higher fuel and energy prices, and extreme weather shocks throttling the supply chain have conspired to make many everyday necessities much less affordable. Rising food costs in particular have become a source of financial stress...
Trump’s fertilizer tariffs could disrupt US crop production, from tomatoes to corn
Farming is a risky business. Growing food for sale has always been subject to unpredictable weather conditions, shifts in price, and the spread of disease. As of last week, farmers in the United States now also have to contend with the second Trump administration’s tariffs. On Tuesday, March 4, President...
The future of Gaza’s recovery may rely on solar power
The first time Majd Mashharawi left her native Gaza was in 2017, to visit Tokyo. Her flight landed late at night, and she was struck by the airport’s many glittering lights. Then when she got to the urban core, she was astonished. “This is the life people have outside Gaza?”...
MAGA Teslas? Elon Musk is upending the politics of EVs.
President Donald Trump, the same man who once said that people promoting electric vehicles should “ROT IN HELL,” bought his own EV this week. He showed off his new Tesla Model S — red, like the Make America Great Again hats — outside the White House on Tuesday, piling compliments...
Florida is now a solar superpower. Here’s how it happened.
Last May, Florida enacted a law deleting any reference to climate change from most of its state policies, a move Republican Governor Ron DeSantis described as “restoring sanity in our approach to energy and rejecting the agenda of the radical green zealots.” That hasn’t stopped the Sunshine State from becoming a national leader in solar power....
A greener Ramadan: How Atlanta-area mosques are cutting food waste during the Muslim holy month
One evening in early March, Nina Ansari frowns as she picks up an untouched plate of rice left on the floor of the masjid she attends near her home in Stone Mountain. “Would anyone like to take this?” she asks a group of women standing nearby. When no one responds,...