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As California’s Emissions Rules Faces Court Battles, States Scramble To Save Their Climate Goals
When President Donald Trump signed legislation to revoke California’s authority to enforce stricter tailpipe emissions standards and to ban sales of gas-powered cars by 2035, the effects rippled far beyond the Golden State. Seventeen states relied on California’s Clean Air Act waivers to adopt stronger vehicle pollution rules on their own, including New York, New […]
Published on: July 07, 2025 | Source:
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Florida’s Home Insurance Crisis Hits Hardest in Some of the State’s Poorest Counties
OKEECHOBEE, Fla.—Steve Cates was walking back to his house from his mailbox, flipping through a clutch of newly delivered letters, when one envelope stopped him in his driveway. It was from his insurance company. His home felt sturdy, but he knew getting insurance in this bucolic community on the north side of Lake Okeechobee was […]
Published on: July 06, 2025 | Source:Nuclear comeback? Japan’s plans to restart reactors hit resistance over radioactive waste
The Japanese government wants to turn its nuclear power stations back on - but some local residents and Indigenous Ainu people don't want nuclear waste stored near them The post Nuclear comeback? Japan’s plans to restart reactors hit resistance over radioactive waste appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 06, 2025 | Source:Trump Pollution Exemptions Would Shield Lawbreakers, Endanger Millions
This story was published in partnership with Public Health Watch. Late in the Biden administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would clamp down on 218 of the nation’s worst chemical polluters, which put close to 10 million people at elevated risk of developing cancer. The EPA’s aim was to reduce that number […]
Published on: July 05, 2025 | Source:The Unexpected Beauty and Deep Meaning of Plastic-Waste Art
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by managing producer Jenni Doering with artist Erik Jon Olson. Over 400 million metric tons of plastic are produced worldwide each year, leaving a huge carbon footprint and a waste problem that never seems to go away. Less than 10 percent […]
Published on: July 05, 2025 | Source:Tiny creatures gorge, get fat, and help fight global warming
Scientists find out how the epic deep sea migration of a tiny animal is storing planet-warming carbon.
Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source:Chart: Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ blows US emissions goal by 7bn tonnes
President Donald Trump’s dismantling of climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn... The post Chart: Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ blows US emissions goal by 7bn tonnes appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source:Top Latin American court upholds right to “healthy climate”, urges fossil fuel control
Inter-American Court of Human Rights issues a landmark advisory opinion on climate change, urging states to regulate fossil fuels and corporate emissions The post Top Latin American court upholds right to “healthy climate”, urges fossil fuel control appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source:US comes out against plastic production limits in UN treaty at deadlocked talks
US officials outlined their new position at a meeting in Nairobi, where key divisions persisted ahead of August talks to agree a global plastics pact The post US comes out against plastic production limits in UN treaty at deadlocked talks appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source:Green Climate Fund reforms aim to fix “slow, cumbersome” accreditation process
The UN's Green Climate Fund aims to accredit organisations, allowing them to apply for funds, within nine months The post Green Climate Fund reforms aim to fix “slow, cumbersome” accreditation process appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source:The Heat That Seared New York City’s Primary Voters Is Just One Impact of Global Warming on Elections
Election Day in New York City was a scorcher. Temperatures at Kennedy Airport reached 102 degrees last Tuesday, making it the city’s hottest June day since 1948. Average June temperatures in Central Park rarely exceed 75 degrees. The recommendation for vulnerable groups—usually the elderly or chronically ill—was to stay inside during the heat wave. But […]
Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source:New Handbook Aims to Protect Scientists From Autocratic Threats
As autocratic regimes around the world increasingly step up attacks on scientists and academic freedom, a team of researchers has published a new anti-autocracy handbook to help scientists protect their personal safety and their work. In the United States, authoritarian shadows loom over the Independence Day holiday, cast by an administration that is violating the […]
Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source:Nations Must Act to Face Climate Crisis, Top Regional Court Says
Governments’ existing human rights obligations require them to do all they can to mitigate the harms of the climate crisis, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights concluded in a new advisory opinion issued Thursday. The seven-judge panel found that, “based on the best available science, the current situation constitutes a climate emergency.” The planetary warming […]
Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source:‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Set to Slash Through U.S. Climate and Justice Drive
In the end, President Donald Trump’s giant tax and spending plan rocketed past both fiscal hawks and social moderates in the House with no changes on Thursday. The $4 trillion One Big Beautiful Bill Act is now ready to reach across the U.S. economy, slicing into every aspect of the national effort to address climate […]
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:Trump’s Legislation Will Constrict the Growth of Texas’ Clean Energy Industry and its Power Grid
Provisions in President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act phasing out tax breaks for solar and wind projects would stunt such development in Texas and make these renewable energy sources more expensive, industry representatives and energy experts said Wednesday. They said those rollbacks, passed as part of the legislation by the Senate 51-50 on Tuesday […]
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:These Century-Old Chicago Silos Are Slated for Demolition. Neighbors Want to Save Them
CHICAGO—Southwest Side residents implored city health and planning officials last week to reconsider the future of two century-old towering grain elevators, empty for years, that an asphalt company wants to demolish. Thursday, the city issued the demolition permits. The company that owns the 23-acre site along the Chicago River has a history of harming the […]
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:Will the Trump Administration Save Workers from Preventable Overheating Deaths?
Juanita Constible has analyzed state workplace heat standards across the United States for the Natural Resources Defense Council since 2018. But she first encountered heat stress as a wildlife biologist nearly 30 years ago, while spending long, hot days studying Canadian toads in a northeastern Alberta forest and nights sleeping in a stuffy tent. On […]
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:EPA Employees Called on the Agency to Stop Undermining Public Health. The Trump Administration Put Them on Leave
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency placed 139 employees on administrative leave Thursday, an agency spokesperson confirmed, after they signed a “Stand Up for Science” petition using their official titles and EPA positions. The affected employees received an email, shared with Inside Climate News, informing them that they are on leave through July 17, pending an […]
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:BBC Inside Science
Hands on with the new research at this year’s Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:Q&A: European Commission’s proposal to cut EU emissions 90% by 2040
The European Commission has set out a proposal to cut EU emissions 90% by 2040,... The post Q&A: European Commission’s proposal to cut EU emissions 90% by 2040 appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:UN development conference backs innovative ways to boost climate finance
Leaders push for better financial systems at the Financing for Development summit to help poor nations cope with climate and economic shocks The post UN development conference backs innovative ways to boost climate finance appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:$88m pollution-tracking satellite missing in space
MethaneSat was meant to keep track of potent greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas production.
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:Violating California Residents’ Right to Water
MOSS LANDING, Calif.—Vernon Trindade learned the water from the well he was digging wasn’t safe to drink around 1985 when he and his wife were building a live-work space with enough room for a wood shop, two painters’ studios and his nine-foot canvases. Trindade, a master woodworker and abstract painter with shoulder-length gray hair and […]
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:In Florida’s Fragile Everglades, Trump Praises ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
President Donald Trump landed this week on an airstrip in the Florida Everglades for a visit to a swiftly assembled detention facility that federal and state officials say will house 3,000 undocumented migrants, as the president aims to fulfill his plans for mass deportations. Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” for its location within a swampy thicket of […]
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:Zohran Mamdani Made Addressing Climate Change Central to His Affordability Plan for New York
On June 24, the day of the New York City primary, Central Park hit its highest temperature for the day—99 degrees—since 2012. That morning, the city’s emergency notification system, NotifyNYC, alerted residents that they should conserve power, implying that there was a risk of blackouts. By the evening, Con Edison, the city’s main electricity provider, […]
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:Trump Administration Acts to ‘Severely Weaken’ a Key Environmental Law
The Trump administration began this week to radically alter how the National Environmental Policy Act is implemented across the federal government, alarming environmentalists. Passed in 1970 and often called the “Magna Carta” of U.S. environmental law, NEPA requires agencies to assess the environmental impacts of their actions during the decision-making process. Its scope is broad, […]
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:Flint Completes Required Lead Pipe Replacements
On Tuesday, Michigan completed replacing nearly 11,000 lead service lines across the City of Flint. The accomplishment comes more than decade after the lead crisis began, and five years later than originally planned. “While this milestone is not all the justice our community deserves, it is a huge achievement,” the Rev. Allen C. Overton of […]
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:On Senate Floor, Tillis Offered Inside Look Into the Lobbying Against Clean Energy
Sen. Thom Tillis had cast off any election worries by the time he took to the Senate floor this week to provide a rare window into the lobbying that already is slowing down the U.S. transition to cleaner energy sources. The North Carolina Republican announced Sunday that he would not seek a third six-year term […]
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:NIH Scientists Link Air Pollution and Lung Cancer Mutations in Non-Smokers
New findings published Wednesday by the National Cancer Institute link tiny, toxic air pollutants to changes in lung cancer tumors at the genomic level in people who have never smoked. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., and the American Cancer Society reports that more people die of lung cancer […]
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:EU Commission proposes allowing carbon offsets to help meet 2040 climate goal
Campaigners accuse the European Commission of adding "loopholes" and "distractions" to the 90% emissions reduction target The post EU Commission proposes allowing carbon offsets to help meet 2040 climate goal appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:African and Pacific delegations air “big concerns” over COP30 accommodation
Negotiators from African and Pacific governments have sent letters to COP host nation Brazil expressing concerns over "astronomical" accommodation prices The post African and Pacific delegations air “big concerns” over COP30 accommodation appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:Ancient Egyptian history may be rewritten by DNA bone test
A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago sheds new light on the rise of Ancient Egypt.
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:Cropped 2 July 2025: US public lands under attack; How India’s gig workers are suffering under climate change; Bonn to Belém
We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food... The post Cropped 2 July 2025: US public lands under attack; How India’s gig workers are suffering under climate change; Bonn to Belém appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:Chart: UK misses tree-planting targets by forest the ‘size of Isle of Wight’
A forest area equivalent to the size of the Isle of Wight has not been... The post Chart: UK misses tree-planting targets by forest the ‘size of Isle of Wight’ appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:Recent droughts are 'slow-moving global catastrophe' - UN report
It says drought has compounded poverty, hunger, and energy insecurity worldwide.
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source: