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Phoenix Braces—and Plans—for Another Hot, Dry Summer
PHOENIX—“An unusually hot and dry summer.” That’s what residents of the nation’s hottest city can expect yet again this summer, following last year’s heat wave…
Twenty-Five Years After Maryland Deregulated Its Retail Energy Market, a Huge Win Looms For Energy Justice Advocates.
Laurel Peltier sat cross-legged at a table strewn with papers as she carefully scanned a utility bill she clutched in her right hand. Henry Burlock,…
Legal Challenges Continue for SunZia Transmission Line
This story is co-published with Arizona Luminaria, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to community-centered reporting. When Peter Else left the University of Arizona in 2005 to live…
The Department of Agriculture Rubber-Stamped Tyson’s “Climate Friendly” Beef, but No One Has Seen the Data Behind the Company’s Claim
About five miles south of Broken Bow, in the heart of central Nebraska, thousands of cattle stand in feedlots at Adams Land & Cattle Co.,…
Climate Change Is Pushing Animals Closer to Humans, With Potentially Catastrophic Consequences
All around the world, the climate crisis has species on the move. This widespread shuffling can push animals closer to humans, with potentially disastrous consequences….
EV Sales Are Taking Off. Why Is Oil Demand Still Climbing?
This year is likely to bring two seemingly incongruous milestones. Sales of electric vehicles will hit an all-time high, and so will global oil consumption….
Climate Justice Groups Confront Chevron on San Francisco Bay
A generation of Richmond’s children, now grown, took to San Francisco Bay in nearly five dozen kayaks Sunday morning, in the shadow of Chevron’s massive…
Mining ‘Critical Minerals’ in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Rife With Rights Abuses
As high-consuming economies like the United States and Europe move to supplant fossil fuels with low-carbon technologies, a race is on to extract and process…
Behind the Scenes: How a Plastics Plant Has Plagued a Pennsylvania County
In 2022, the oil and gas company Shell began operations at its new plastics plant in Monaca, Pennsylvania, a town in Beaver County, about 25…
Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands Is the Biggest Conservation Opportunity Left in the West. If Congress Won’t Protect it, Should Biden Step in?
OWYHEE CANYONLANDS, Ore.—Drive 50 miles from Boise, Idaho, past the suburbs, exurbs and farms into Oregon, and you’ll find yourself in the largest conservation opportunity…