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This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
You may remember a certain ex-convict announced plans to run for U.S. Senate last November. Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy, was condemned to a one-year sentence in 2015 for conspiring to break mine safety laws.
Us, of course, being human society. The charismatic, climate-loving French president just moved up the timeline for shutting down the country’s coal-fired power plants — from 2023 to 2021.
The Environmental Protection Agency relaxed regulations on some major sources of pollution on Thursday.
There are dozens of dimensions in the arguments for and against nuclear energy as a source of clean electricity.
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The Doomsday Clock is a theoretical device meant to communicate how close we are to destroying civilization.
What? Yes. According to a report released by The Wilderness Society on Thursday, “If U.S. public lands were their own country, they would rank fifth in the world for greenhouse gas emissions.” There’s been a big hullaballoo over Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s plans to turn our public lands over to industry interests.
Sitting on a park bench next to the Pines River on a sunny afternoon in Revere, Massachusetts, a few miles north of Boston, RoseLee Vincent recalls her childhood spent waterskiing on the river.
After the passage of the contentious GOP tax bill and a prolonged congressional stand-off on the Affordable Care Act, Trump’s proposed infrastructure plan is an initiative we can finally get behind.
The most important part of the most important ice sheet in the world just got a bit more important this week.
New research from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association could help pinpoint snow levels in mountain ranges across the western United States eight months in advance.
Back when oil prices were high, people were talking a lot about peak oil supply — the possibility that we’d run out of new sources of crude oil eventually.
Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced Monday that he will begin the process of selling the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, pending the approval of a federal judge and the island’s legislature.
We’d previously mentioned that President Donald Trump hinted at a tariff to “tank the solar industry.” Today, the Administration announced it’s actually doing it.
Spurred by the higher profit margins that come with fracking technology, U.S. oil production is poised to set a record in 2018, potentially passing top oil producers Saudi Arabia and Russia.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granted the PennEast Pipeline its certificate of public convenience and necessity on Friday, which also allows the company to acquire land through eminent domain.
The Secretary of the Interior is always busy, relentlessly shaping the future of our public lands! Let’s check in: Less than a week after the Trump administration announced a controversial offshore drilling draft plan, Zinke announced he was letting Florida opt out (in a tweet, no less.) Ironically enough, the White House isn’t too pleased with Zinke’s missive, and a top official at the Bureau of Offshore Energy Management says Florida is still being considered for offshore drilling.
Early last year, President Donald Trump signed an executive order reversing the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan.
This story was originally published by CityLab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.