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UN: Five reasons why switching to renewables is ‘smart economics’
The global energy transition is now “unstoppable” due to “smart economics”, UN secretary-general António Guterres... The post UN: Five reasons why switching to renewables is ‘smart economics’ appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:
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The Just Energy Transition Partnerships are faltering – fresh thinking is needed
The JETPs have the right idea on phasing out coal and boosting renewables, but are struggling as geopolitical tensions and Global South debt levels rise The post The Just Energy Transition Partnershipsare faltering – fresh thinking is needed appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:Want To Fight Climate Change? Give Afro-Descendant Communities Land Rights, New Report Says
Territories owned and managed by Afro-descendant communities in Amazonian countries are under threat from miners, loggers and oil companies eager to exploit natural resources. Yet those territories are among some of the region’s healthiest, according to a new peer-reviewed study. The report, published Tuesday by the nonprofit Conservation International in the journal Nature Communications Earth […]
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:Potential Repeal of Roadless Rule Could Permanently Damage Midwest National Forests
Following the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s rescission of a longstanding rule that protects thousands of acres of national forests against logging, experts say that the repeal would not only damage natural beauty, but also ignores the interests of Midwest residents and industries. On June 23, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said at a Western Governors’ […]
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:Dismantling of EPA’s Scientific Research Arm Fulfills Key Chemical Industry Goal
Soon after President Donald Trump took office in January, a wide array of petrochemical, mining and farm industry coalitions ramped up what has been a long campaign to limit use of the Environmental Protection Agency’s assessments of the health risks of chemicals. That effort scored a significant victory Friday when EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced […]
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:Weather Extremes Caused by Climate Change Are Driving Up Food Prices, a New Report Says
Extreme weather has stoked food prices around the world in recent years and could lead to more political instability and inflation, with the world’s poor bearing most of the economic pain and health impacts, according to new research. A report published Monday in the journal Environmental Research Letters tracks 16 weather events, many directly attributed […]
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:EPA Extends Leave and Demands Answers From Employees Who Signed a ‘Declaration of Dissent’
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has extended the administrative leave of 160 employees as part of its investigation into workers who used their official titles and positions last month in signing a petition objecting to the agency’s policies, Inside Climate News has confirmed. The employees were scheduled to return to work July 18, but the […]
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:Water bill rises needed to fix investment, report says
A major review of the water industry also suggests compulsory smart meters and scrapping the regulator Ofwat.
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:How much sewage is spilled near you?
Companies can release raw sewage during bad weather, but it poses risks to human health and wildlife.
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:Five key takeaways from the landmark water sector review
The wide-ranging review was launched amid growing public concern about sewage spills and rising bills.
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:Alabama’s New Utility Commission President Wants to Hear From ‘All Sides’ as She Assumes New Role
There aren’t many jobs in Alabama like president of the Public Service Commission. The state’s chief utility regulator is the head of a three-person council that sets rates and policies for the state’s electric, gas, telecommunications and other utilities. If Alabama Power, the state’s largest electricity provider, wants to raise rates or build a new […]
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:Iowa Agriculture Runs on 110 Billion Pounds of Manure, at a Cost to Its Water
During planting season in Iowa, Landon Plagge’s fields reek. Sour and earthy, almost like rotten eggs and fermenting hay, the scent repels the unacquainted nose. But Plagge is unbothered. “I’m used to it,” he said, laughing. “I’m immersed in shit, I guess.” In addition to the soy, corn, oats and rye he grows on his […]
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:Mapped: 16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022
UK potatoes, South Korean cabbage and west African cocoa are just some of the foods... The post Mapped: 16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022 appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: July 20, 2025 | Source:Sewage discharges to halve by 2030, minister pledges
Environment Secretary Steve Reed says the government is preparing a "water revolution" and that the water sector is broken.
Published on: July 20, 2025 | Source:Out in the Storm
We were bombing up I-10 over Lake Pontchartrain, one week to the day after Hurricane Francine passed the same way with its tempest winds and a month’s worth of rain. Chenier “Klie” Kliebert, a Native New Orleanian so many generations back the family had lost count, drove comfortably while I sat shotgun and wide-eyed at […]
Published on: July 20, 2025 | Source:Are You a Customer of PJM? Its Capacity Auction Will Affect Your Electricity Prices in 2026
Skyrocketing electricity prices this summer may just be the start of something big for the 65 million residents relying on PJM Interconnection, the largest power grid operator in the United States. PJM held its annual power capacity auction this month—following record-high price increases in 2024–and analysts are expecting prices could again jump or remain at […]
Published on: July 20, 2025 | Source:Efforts to Reduce Toxic Algae in Lake Erie Appear to Be Making Progress. Now They Face State and Federal Cuts
Cuts to a major water-quality program in Ohio’s biennial budget will likely weaken efforts to control the spread of toxic blue-green algae in Lake Erie. The program in question, H2Ohio, has invested millions of dollars in improving water quality throughout the state. Much of that money has gone toward cutting off the supply of nutrients […]
Published on: July 20, 2025 | Source:What Trump’s Budget Cuts Mean for Disaster Preparedness
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Alice Hill, a senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. Weather forecasting, climate research and climate resilience are being hit with major budget and staffing cuts by the Trump administration. And […]
Published on: July 19, 2025 | Source:Wyoming’s Crowded Lonesome Lake Tops EPA’s National Survey for Fecal Contamination
This article was originally published byWyoFile, in partnership with The Water Desk at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Environmental Journalism. LONESOME LAKE, Wyo.—Whit Coleman belly flopped with style into some of Wyoming’s most famous alpine waters on a summer day. Out on a father-son backpacking trip with friends, the Salt Lake City man […]
Published on: July 19, 2025 | Source:Serious water pollution incidents up 60% in England, Environment Agency says
Last year had the highest number of pollution events by water companies ever recorded.
Published on: July 19, 2025 | Source:Wasps are back this summer – a lot of them
Wasps are having a good year following a cooler summer in 2024 - so how can we live alongside them without a sting?
Published on: July 18, 2025 | Source:Weeks After a Heat Wave Baked the US, Democrats Push to Declare Heat a Major Disaster
In the United States, heat kills more people than hurricanes, floods and tornadoes—combined. Yet unlike these other extreme weather events, heat waves are not considered a major disaster under U.S. law. A group of Congress members from some of the country’s hottest states are trying to change that. On Thursday, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), along […]
Published on: July 18, 2025 | Source:Former BP Spokesperson Is Now EPA Region 6 Chief of Staff
Wynn Radford IV, chief of staff for the Environmental Protection Agency Region 6, previously worked as a spokesperson for the multinational oil company BP following the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The April 2010 explosion on an offshore BP drilling rig killed 11 people and caused the largest marine oil spill in history, leaking almost 134 million […]
Published on: July 18, 2025 | Source:DeBriefed 18 July 2025: India’s clean-energy milestone; Climate reaches UK parliament; Conserving trees and culture in Kenya
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed.An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate... The post DeBriefed 18 July 2025: India’s clean-energy milestone; Climate reaches UK parliament; Conserving trees and culture in Kenya appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: July 18, 2025 | Source:Brazil offers COP30 cruise ship rooms and cost caps, but negotiators remain unhappy
While some developing countries can book rooms on two cruise ships at $220 a night, others will have to pay up to $600 in a process criticised as "opaque" The post Brazil offers COP30 cruise ship rooms and cost caps, but negotiators remain unhappy appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 18, 2025 | Source:Brazil offers COP30 cruise ship rooms and cost caps but negotiators remain unhappy
While some developing countries have been offered rooms on two cruise ships at $220 a night, others will have to pay up to $600 in a process criticised as "opaque" The post Brazil offers COP30 cruise ship rooms and cost caps but negotiators remain unhappy appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 18, 2025 | Source:One Small Country, Nearly $20 Billion in Corporate Claims
Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. But that vulnerability has not stopped foreign companies from filing a wave of legal claims against the small nation that collectively seek roughly $20 billion, according to a new analysis by advocacy groups, a figure equal to more than five times Honduras’ public expenditures […]
Published on: July 18, 2025 | Source:Southwestern Drought Likely to Continue Through 2100, Research Finds
The drought in the Southwestern U.S. is likely to last for the rest of the 21st century and potentially beyond as global warming shifts the distribution of heat in the Pacific Ocean, according to a study published last week led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin. Using sediment cores collected in the […]
Published on: July 18, 2025 | Source:Analysts Expect More Oil and Gas Mergers. What Could That Mean for the Climate?
Investor excitement after The Wall Street Journal reported recently that Shell was in early talks to acquire BP was quickly dampened by Shell’s outright dismissal of the possibility as “market speculation.” But one way or another, analysts and consultants for the oil and gas industry expect further consolidation is coming. That could have a mixed […]
Published on: July 18, 2025 | Source:Unique 1.5m year-old ice to be melted to unlock mystery
BBC News went inside -23C freezers to see the ice that could "revolutionise" our knowledge of climate change.
Published on: July 18, 2025 | Source:EPA Tries to Stop Closure of Colorado Coal Plants After Meeting With Colorado Springs Utilities
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency informed Colorado Wednesday that the state could not close coal-fired power plants to improve air quality in the West, three months after the agency heard arguments from Colorado Springs Utilities requesting it be allowed to continue burning coal to generate electricity. State regulation in Colorado requires certain coal-fired power plants […]
Published on: July 17, 2025 | Source:Deep Sea Mining Negotiations Resume Amid Industry Pushback and Environmental Alarm
Global negotiations over the future of the deep sea are underway this week in Kingston, Jamaica where member states of the International Seabed Authority have gathered to continue shaping a regulatory framework for commercial mining in international waters. The three-week summit is dedicated to finalizing a long-debated set of rules known as the Mining Code […]
Published on: July 17, 2025 | Source:In Brazil’s lithium belt, locals fear push to dismantle legal protections
As demand for transition minerals soars, pro-business lawmakers and environmental activists in COP30 host Brazil are in a tug of war over how to regulate the mining industry The post In Brazil’s lithium belt, locals fear push to dismantle legal protections appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 17, 2025 | Source:30 Years After Chicago’s Deadliest Heat Wave, Systemic Racism Is Still the Root Problem
CHICAGO—Cheryl Johnson was watching the news during the worst heat wave in her city’s history when she learned that a man she’d known since she was a child had been found dead on the steps of a church downtown. She’ll never forget the moment. Her friend—who she knew by his nickname DD—was in his 40s, […]
Published on: July 17, 2025 | Source:The Carbon Brief Interview: UK climate envoy Rachel Kyte
Rachel Kyte CMG was appointed the UK’s special representative for climate in October 2024. She... The post The Carbon Brief Interview: UK climate envoy Rachel Kyte appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: July 17, 2025 | Source: