Will There Be Less Wind to Fuel Wind Energy? Electricity from renewable sources dropped last year even as Illinois and surrounding Midwest states pushed to replace fossil fuels, such as coal and natural gas, with wind and solar power.... 3 hours ago Inside Climate News By Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News and Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times EQT Says Fracked Gas Is a Climate Solution, but Scientists Call That Deceptive Greenwashing This article was originally published by PublicSource, a nonprofit newsroom serving the Pittsburgh region. Sign up for its free weekly newsletters at publicsource.org. This story was supported by the Pulitzer... 4 hours ago Inside Climate News By Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource A Giant Plastics Chemical Recycling Plant Planned for Pennsylvania Died After Two Years. What Happened? 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The fact that this is even... 1 day ago Inside Climate News By Dan Gearino Alabama Coal Mine Keeps Digging Under A Rural Community After Hundreds of Fines and a Fatal Explosion. Residents Are Rattled OAK GROVE, Ala.—Clara Riley and her family had a lot of questions. But on Monday, as they gathered around the 90-year-old’s small kitchen table, they weren’t getting many answers. Kristie... 1 day ago Inside Climate News By Lee Hedgepeth, James Bruggers In Coastal British Columbia, the Haida Get Their Land Back Twenty years ago, Geoff Plant, the then attorney general of British Columbia, made an offer to the Haida Nation. Many West Coast First Nations, including the Haida, had never signed... 1 day ago Inside Climate News By Serena Renner, Hakai Magazine Dire Straits: Can a Fishing Ban Save the Elusive European Eel? The European eel, whose life cycle remains shrouded in mystery, is a staple of the continent’s cultures and cuisines. But after decades of decline in its populations, scientists are calling... 1 day ago Yale E360 Big Oil’s Dangerous Radioactive Secret DeSmog writer Justin Nobel’s new book explores how workers bear the brunt of the oil and gas industry’s hidden radioactive waste. The post Big Oil’s Dangerous Radioactive Secret appeared first... 1 day ago DeSmog Justin Nobel U.K. Closing In on Zero-Carbon Power Goal Wind and solar are continuing to push fossil fuels off the U.K. power grid. So far this year, wind is the nation's leading source of electricity, and for brief periods,... 2 days ago Yale E360 UK Accused of ‘Helping Russia’ as Refined Oil Imports From ‘Laundering’ Countries Remain at Record High The UK has been accused of “helping Russia pay for its war on Ukraine” by continuing to import record amounts of refined oil from countries processing Kremlin fossil fuels. Government... 2 days ago DeSmog Sam Bright ‘Pathetic, Really, and Dangerous’: Al Gore Reflects on Fraudulent Fossil Fuel Claims, Climate Voters and Clean Energy NEW YORK CITY—Former Vice President Al Gore paid a visit to the Big Apple earlier this month to help train a new cohort of climate activists just ahead of Earth... 2 days ago Inside Climate News By Kristoffer Tigue Financial Times, Reuters Pull Saudi Aramco-sponsored Climate Content The Financial Times and Reuters have taken down advertorials paid for by Saudi Aramco that showcased the oil giant’s preferred climate solutions. The content, which was produced by FT and... 2 days ago DeSmog Joey Grostern More Than a Third of All Americans Live in Communities with ‘Hazardous’ Air, Lung Association Finds Within five miles of Kim Gaddy’s home in the South Ward of Newark, N.J., lies the nation’s third-busiest shipping port, thirteenth-busiest airport and roughly a half dozen major roadways. All... 2 days ago Inside Climate News By Victoria St. Martin The Biden Administration Makes Two Big Moves To Conserve Public Lands, Sparking Backlash From Industry For the Biden administration, Earth Day is a month-long affair. On Monday, the president announced $7 billion in funding to deliver residential solar projects for 60 state and local governments,... 2 days ago Inside Climate News By Kiley Price In ‘The People vs. Citi,’ Climate Leaders Demand Citibank End Its Fossil Fuel Financing NEW YORK—About 100 people gathered in a Manhattan church on Earth Day to hold a mock legal hearing on claims that Citibank is financing environmental injustice. 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But a new report finds regulators have not studied whether increasingly extreme weather... 3 days ago Yale E360 EPA Faulted for Wasting Millions, Failing to Prevent Spread of Superfund Site Contamination The Environmental Protection Agency may have wasted or risked millions of dollars by failing to prevent the spread of contamination hazardous to human health at a Superfund site in Pensacola,... 3 days ago Inside Climate News By Katie Surma In Wyoming, a Tribe and a City Pursue Clean Energy Funds Spurned by the Governor When Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon told the Environmental Protection Agency in 2023 that the state would not be applying for federal grant money to reduce pollution and greenhouse gases, he... 4 days ago Inside Climate News By Jake Bolster Jared Kushner Has Big Plans for Delta of Europe’s Last Wild River It is the jewel of the Adriatic. Its shimmering waters feed a rare colony of Dalmatian pelicans, the world’s largest freshwater birds, sustain the endangered Albanian water frog, and host... 4 days ago Inside Climate News By Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360 Scientists Are Trying to Coax the Ocean to Absorb More CO2 For billions of years, the oceans have been absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere. Now, to boost that drawdown, startup companies and researchers are experimenting with ‘marine carbon dioxide removal’ by... 4 days ago Yale E360 Oil Drilling Has Endured in the Everglades for Decades. 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But as major American fast food brands, like... 7 days ago DeSmog Alex Park Older posts