U.S. Emissions Dropped in 2019...
New data is out on America’s greenhouse gas emissions, and there’s good news and bad for the climate.
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With waters rising around them, Pacific Islanders are marrying Space Age technology with ancestral wisdom.
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Seeking to do their part to avert climate change, dozens of cities are exploring ways to limit natural gas heating in new homes. One city may also require existing homeowners to make a switch.
read moreHappy renewable year!
It’s Thursday, January 2, and Nevadans are getting the largest solar farm in the U.S.
read moreA New Idea in Architecture? No...
The energy already embodied in the built environment is a precious unnatural resource. It’s time to start treating it like one.
read moreWhat’s Behind Big Oil’s Promis...
Here’s what the major fossil fuel companies are committing to do on climate change, and how that falls far short of what’s needed.
read moreBirth strike, flygskam, Pyroce...
It was another year in which natural disasters occurred with unnatural force and frequency: Mozambique was submerged by two deadly cyclones, some of its worst storms of record; Japan, Australia, and the southern U.S. sizzled in heat waves; and even the Arctic was on fire.
read moreOur Cherished Rivers Are Under...
Permanent protections for free-flowing rivers need to be a centerpiece of every country’s national climate action plan. Chile can lead the way.
read moreHow Oil Companies Avoided Envi...
Louisiana still hasn’t finished investigating 540 oil spills after Hurricane Katrina. The state is likely leaving millions of dollars in remediation fines on the table — money that environmental groups say they need as storms get stronger.
read moreThe Key to Solving the Climate...
The Green New Deal resolution that was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives in February hit a wall in the Senate, where it was called unrealistic and unaffordable.
read moreWhile Talking up Climate Actio...
Even as international climate negotiators tried to make progress at the UN climate summit in Madrid in early December, fossil fuel production and consumption has continued to rise, and major oil companies have been seeking new horizons to exploit.
read moreA Methane Leak, Seen From Spac...
The first satellite designed to continuously monitor the planet for methane leaks made a startling discovery last year: A little known gas-well accident at an Ohio fracking site was in fact one of the largest methane leaks ever recorded in the United States.
read moreThese Cities Want to Ban Natur...
Cambridge, Massachusetts, got a surprise warning as it considered a natural gas ban to reduce its climate impact, but that might not stop the city or its neighbors.
read moreAsk a Scientist: How to Ensure...
This month’s Ask a Scientist column takes a look at how the revolution in energy storage technology has the potential to wean the United States off fossil fuel-powered electricity and—if implemented correctly—lower residential electric bills, strengthen resilience to power outages, and clean up the air in communities where dirty power plants are located.
read moreThey Built a Life in the Shado...
Maine’s toxicologist isn’t alarmed by the results of an extensive air monitoring program, but people living near South Portland’s petroleum tank farms are panicking.
read moreTrump’s Tariffs Cost Americans...
Trump’s tariffs have harmed Americans by raising prices, cutting jobs, and losing the US billions in investment opportunities. From 2017–2021, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) expects 62,000 fewer jobs in the solar industry — which is more than the entire US coal mining industry.
read moreA Key Climate Justice Question...
Environmental justice advocates and indigenous groups argue that emissions trading leaves the poor bearing the brunt of pollution.
read moreThe Imperial Oil Files: New Co...
Today, DeSmog and the Climate Investigations Center are co-launching a large collection of documents from Exxon’s Canadian subsidiary, Imperial Oil, that DeSmog collected from a company archive in Calgary over the past several years.
read moreWhat’s ‘Fair’ When It Comes to...
The average American and Australian generates nearly 3½ times the global average of carbon dioxide pollution.
read moreWhy (Some) Automakers Are Work...
The Los Angeles Auto Show is just wrapping up, but while my colleague Dave Reichmuth was there getting a sneak peek at what the next couple years have in store, California’s emissions regulators were absent for the first time in 50 years.
read moreThe Case for Old-Fashioned Tar...
WASHINGTON, DC – The “bicycle theory” used to be a metaphor for international trade policy. Just as standing still on a bicycle is not an option – one must keep moving forward or else fall over – so it was said that trade negotiators must engage in successive rounds of liberalization.
read moreSea Level in the Gulf of Maine...
Residents already worried about fumes from their waterfront’s giant oil tanks want to know what happens in the event of a disaster— and what about sea level rise?
read moreCoal Knew, Too
A newly unearthed journal from 1966 shows the coal industry was long aware of the threat of climate change.
read moreAppalachia’s Strip-Mined Mount...
A new analysis of satellite images shows how the area of West Virginia with the most strip-mine damage is also the most susceptible to increased stream flow.
read moreHow the humble chairlift could...
What do you see when you imagine a zero-carbon future? Electric buses zipping by? Rolling hills covered with solar panels? Offshore wind farms towering over the sea? If batteries are part of your vision, good thinking.
read moreCiting Latest Climate Science,...
On Saturday, November 16, 29 people were arrested in a rally at a massive natural gas-fired power plant, the Cricket Valley Energy Center, that is being constructed in a picturesque rural valley of farms and forests near the New York-Connecticut border, about 80 miles north of New York City.
read moreGot flight shame? Would you pa...
Flight shame — that guilty feeling for traveling by air because of its large impact on the climate — is making some customers think twice before flying.
read moreCan solar power help prevent C...
Most reports on climate change are filled with dire warnings for our future. The consensus is that the earth is getting progressively warmer, and our energy-consumption habits have had a direct impact on that.
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