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Residents Living in the Shadow of the Steel Industry Ask the EPA to Reconsider Delay of Hazardous Air Pollution Rule
At a hearing held Wednesday to gather public comments on the Trump administration’s delay of tighter restrictions on hazardous air pollution from steel manufacturing, residents urged the government to consider the impact on public health. “What’s missing from this conversation and this decision is people. The people who, every day, are exposed to hundreds of […]
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:
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Without Well-Funded Public Transit, Philadelphia’s Climate Future Looks Bleak
PHILADELPHIA—Three days a week, Daniel Blazek takes the train from his Center City neighborhood to his job in supply chain management in Malvern, Pennsylvania. He’s relied on public transit to get to work for the past eight years. But next year, he may not be able to take the train anymore. The SEPTA line that […]
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:UN climate chief issues rallying cry on national climate plans as deadline looms
Simon Stiell calls for "strong" climate targets to be submitted as soon as possible to ensure their inclusion in a critical UN progress report The post UN climate chief issues rallying cry on national climate plans as deadline looms appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:Corpus Christi Folds on Its Desalination Gamble
After a decade of efforts and tens of millions of dollars invested, the Corpus Christi City Council moved to cancel a contract for a seawater desalination plant in a 1 a.m. vote Wednesday at the end of a rancorous, 13-hour public meeting. The plant was first proposed to meet the water demands of industrial facilities […]
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:Without robust action, new EU carbon pricing plan could leave vulnerable people behind
The expansion of Europe's emissions trading system to buildings and road transport needs comprehensive social measures to cushion the poorest groups from cost increases The post Without robust action, new EU carbon pricing plan could leave vulnerable people behind appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells
This story is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and ProPublica. Hakim Dermish moved to the small South Texas town of Catarina in 2002 in search of a rural lifestyle on a budget. The property where he lived with his wife didn’t have electricity or sewer lines at first, but that didn’t bother him. “Even […]
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:Peru to Consider New Reserve for Uncontacted Indigenous People
This week, Peruvian officials are set to consider the creation of a sprawling reserve in the country’s Amazon basin to protect groups of Indigenous people living in isolation from the rest of society. Establishing the reserve would represent the latest step in a decades-long effort to protect thousands of such isolated Indigenous people across Peru’s […]
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:Activists Decry New Border Wall’s Impact on Wildlife
This story was originally published byNational Catholic Reporter. TUCSON, Ariz.—The Trump administration is muscling forward with plans to wall off a critical international wildlife corridor, setting up construction camps to erect a 30-foot barrier along one of the few remaining gaps on the U.S.-Mexico border. The first of the steelbollards are expected to go up […]
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:Major financiers neglect energy transition risks from mining as demand booms
Financial institutions are lacking safeguards to prevent harms caused by mining the resources needed for the energy transition, analysis of the sector's financing finds The post Major financiers neglect energy transition risks from mining as demand booms appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:Watch: Captain Scott’s famous polar shipwreck as never seen before
The Terra Nova carried Captain Scott and his men on their doomed expedition to the South Pole.
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:Captain Scott’s famous polar shipwreck as never seen before
The Terra Nova carried Captain Scott and his men on their doomed expedition to the South Pole.
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:Dozens of Scientists Call DOE Climate Report ‘Fundamentally Incorrect’
More than 85 climate scientists declared the Department of Energy’s new climate report unfit for policymaking in a comprehensive review released Tuesday. The DOE’s report cherry-picked evidence, lacked peer-reviewed studies to support its questioning of the detrimental effects of climate change in the U.S. and is “fundamentally incorrect,” the authors concluded. Scientists have accurately modeled […]
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:The Climate and Biodiversity Knowledge We Lose When Everything’s in English
English is the dominant language in research—it’s essentially the lingua franca of science. A common-ground language enables findings to be disseminated around the globe, which has led to a number of breakthroughs in climate and biodiversity research as scientists connect the dots across different fields. Yet this outsized English representation has major drawbacks, a growing […]
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:UN experts accuse top oil firms of rights violations over Nigerian asset sales
Divestments were made without paying hefty clean-up bills or compensating communities in the pollution-scarred Niger Delta, UN working group says The post UN experts accuse top oil firms of rights violations over Nigerian asset sales appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:Victims of Zambian copper mine disaster demand multibillion dollar payout
Dozens of families are threatening to sue China's Sino-Metals over a devastating spill of toxic mining waste that caused one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters The post Victims of Zambian copper mine disaster demand multibillion dollar payout appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:Leaving EPA Behind, Environmental Justice Pioneer Preaches Hope Amid Trump Cutbacks
One year ago, Charles Lee could look across the federal government and see his life’s work in action on multiple fronts—new grants awarded to minority communities overburdened with pollution, a new expert science panel established to look at their unique mix of health risks and the first White House Summit on Environmental Justice in Action […]
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:Support grows for COP30 ‘just transition’ talks to address critical minerals
Developing nations want minerals production and energy access - not just fossil fuel workers - to be included in discussions on a fair low-carbon transition The post Support grows for COP30 ‘just transition’ talks to address critical minerals appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:Summer 2025 confirmed as UK's hottest on record
Provisional Met Office figures show that it has been the warmest summer on record - meaning the UK's five hottest summers have all occurred since 2000.
Published on: September 01, 2025 | Source:Call for pitches: Climate Home News seeks story ideas on critical mineral supply chains
Do you have original story ideas about the trends shaping supply chains for energy transition minerals and how to address their sustainability challenges? Get in touch The post Call for pitches: Climate Home News seeks story ideas on critical mineral supply chains appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: September 01, 2025 | Source:Can the ICJ opinion bring climate justice for Indigenous peoples?
The landmark ruling by the world's top court says national climate policies must protect Indigenous and minority rights - but to be effective, it needs to be enforced by states The post Can the ICJ opinion bring climate justice for Indigenous peoples? appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: September 01, 2025 | Source:Tories pledge to get all oil and gas out of North Sea
The government warns Kemi Badenoch's plans would "only accelerate the worsening climate crisis".
Published on: September 01, 2025 | Source:How a Rock Band Bassist Is Remixing Climate Activism
Imagine if every climate policy rollback was met with the same unshakable loyalty Swifties show when Taylor drops a breakup song. What if climate action had the same unstoppable energy as Beyoncé’s BeyHive, marching full speed ahead toward a green economy? According to Adam Met, the climate movement could learn a thing or two from […]
Published on: September 01, 2025 | Source:In the Once Heavily Polluted Chicago River, More Fish, a Giant Snapping Turtle and an Upcoming Swim
CHICAGO—Krystyna Kurth likes to begin her tours of the river cutting past the city’s post-industrial area with a word association game. Kurth, coordinator of conservation action at the Shedd Aquarium, first began leading Kayak for Conservation tours of the Chicago River’s North Branch six years ago. When she started, the first words about it that […]
Published on: September 01, 2025 | Source:Canada's first lunar rover looks to future space exploration
The mission's goal is to find water on the Moon, which could open the door for a sustained human presence there.
Published on: August 31, 2025 | Source:Climate Change Worsens Half-Century of Drinking Water Problems for Maine Native Reservation
Second of two articles about the Passamaquoddy Tribe’s struggles with sea level rise, water quality and habitat resilience on the coast of Maine. SIPAYIK, Maine—The smell of saltwater is one of Brian Altvater’s favorite parts of living in Sipayik. Wherever you go on the tiny Maine peninsula, home to the Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Reservation, you […]
Published on: August 31, 2025 | Source:With New Jersey Still Reeling From Summer Storms, Fossil Fuel Interests Fight ‘Climate Superfund’ Bill
Torrential rain and high winds killed at least five people and caused damage worth millions of dollars in New Jersey in July alone, but the fate of a bill that would require fossil fuel companies to pay for past damages from the changing climate and future resilience measures remains uncertain. The state’s Climate Superfund Act […]
Published on: August 31, 2025 | Source:AI’s Massive Energy Demands
The data centers that power artificial intelligence require huge amounts of electricity. Some experts estimate we’ll need as much as 25% more electricity by 2030, and 78% by 2050, to meet this demand alone. Whether that electricity comes from renewable energy or fossil fuels has big implications for climate change. Dan explains why we should […]
Published on: August 31, 2025 | Source:‘Public enemy number one’: The battle against an eight-toothed beetle threatening UK forests
Forest Research said the UK is the first country to eradicate the beetle after five-year battle.
Published on: August 31, 2025 | Source:In Far Northeastern Maine, a Native Community Fights to Adapt to Climate Change
First of two articles about the Passamaquoddy Tribe’s struggles with sea level rise, water quality and habitat resilience on the coast of Maine. SIPAYIK, Maine—On the Sipayik peninsula in Maine, Passamaquoddy tribe members are surrounded on three sides by water, and on all sides by reminders of their vulnerability to a changing climate. They […]
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:Can Clams Make a Comeback on a Tribal Reservation in Maine?
SIPAYIK, Maine—Clams have been entwined with the story of the Passamaquoddy tribe for 13,000 years. Archaeological digs at ancient tribal sites have uncovered “middens,” or piles of discarded clamshells from generations of summer harvests, according to tribe member Brian Altvater. But the population of adult softshell clams in the waters around the Sipayik peninsula have […]
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:Despite Lack of Federal Support, US Scientists Continue Work on Key Global Climate Reports
Even as the U.S. federal government rapidly retreats from science-based decision-making, adopts climate-damaging energy policies and disengages from international climate efforts, 46 American researchers have been chosen as authors for the upcoming three main global climate reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The number of U.S. scientists working on the IPCC reports has […]
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:The Trump Administration Is Trying to Revoke the ‘Roadless Rule.’ The Public Won’t Have Much Time to Weigh In
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving the public just three weeks to weigh in on a key step of its attempt to scrap the Roadless Rule, which protects almost 59 million acres of forest land from road construction and timber harvesting. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) published a notice Friday seeking comment on its […]
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:As Trump Pushes Liquified Natural Gas Exports, Residents in Pennsylvania Towns Push Back to Stop a Proposed LNG Terminal
CHESTER, Pa.—In this small city south of Philadelphia, trash is a problem. A thick white cloud rising from Reworld’s Delaware Valley Resource Recovery Facility, the largest trash incinerator in the country by capacity, and the stinging odor of garbage are daily reminders that mounds of waste from Philadelphia, New York City and Delaware are a […]
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:Military drills spark hundreds of wildfires in UK
Live explosives on army training sites in the UK countryside mean many wildfires cannot be tackled.
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:California Updates Pesticide Alert System
Farmworkers and their families have long demanded the right to know when and where growers plan to spray dangerous pesticides in their communities. The California Department of Pesticide Regulation finally debuted a system in March that does just that. Now regulators have added new features to the pesticide notification system, called SprayDays California, which they […]
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source: