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There is no climate finance gap – only a tax sovereignty gap
If governments reclaimed the power to tax extreme wealth, they could shift resources from billionaires and corporate giants to climate solutions The post There is no climate finance gap – only a tax sovereignty gap appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:
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In Chicago, a Landmark Environmental Justice Bill Inches Toward Passage
CHICAGO—Cheryl Johnson’s perspective on the Hazel Johnson Cumulative Impacts Ordinance is that it’s been a long time coming. It’s not just the two years that community groups collaborated with the city’s revived Department of Environment to craft the environmental justice ordinance, but also the four decades that she has been doing the work that her […]
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:Wastewater Treatment Plants Channel ‘Forever Chemicals’ Into Waterways Nationwide
Harmful “forever chemicals” flow from wastewater treatment plants into surface water across the U.S., according to a new report by a clean-water advocacy group. Weekslong sampling by the Waterkeeper Alliance both upstream and downstream of 22 wastewater treatment facilities in 19 states saw total per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) concentrations increase in 95 percent of […]
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:In Trump’s Megabill, a Clean Energy Phase Out and a Big, Beautiful Tax Break for Met Coal Exporters
A provision slipped into President Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act would provide millions of dollars in tax credits to U.S. companies that produce metallurgical coal—coal largely exported overseas for use in foreign steelmaking. The language was added to the 887-page tax and spending-cut bill before its narrow passage by the U.S. Senate on […]
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:In Budget Crunch, New Jersey Strips Clean Energy Fund in Near-Record ‘Raid’
For the 17th year in a row, the New Jersey Legislature diverted tens of millions of dollars meant for clean energy investments to plug shortfalls in their general state budget. On Monday, Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law the fiscal year 2026 budget totaling around $58.8 billion, the largest in New Jersey’s history. Tucked in […]
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:Border Wall Plans at New Mexico’s Mount Cristo Rey Raise Environmental Concerns
EL PASO—U.S. Customs and Border Protection plans to build a 1.3-mile border barrier on Mount Cristo Rey, an iconic mountain rising above the Rio Grande and the neighboring cities of Juárez and El Paso. Most of the mountain lies in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. Its southern flank is in Mexico, near the Anapra neighborhood […]
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:International Investigation by Inside Climate News Wins an SPJ Award
Inside Climate News has won an award from the Society of Professional Journalists for its investigation into a little-known arbitration system that has allowed multinational corporations to win billion-dollar claims against developing nations. “Cashing Out,” reported by Katie Surma and Nicholas Kusnetz, showed how investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS, lets companies doing business outside their […]
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:An Important Archive of Congressionally-Mandated Climate Change Reports Just Went Dark
On Monday, the website for the federal government’s 35-year old Global Change Research Program—an entity that is required to release periodic reports concerning the environmental change in the Earth’s climate—went dark. The program is part of an interagency effort to, among other things, create an authoritative report known as the National Climate Assessment every four […]
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:As Sea Levels Rise, an Island Nation Creates an Escape Route
The small island nation of Tuvalu is being swallowed by the sea. With just around 10,000 residents, this Pacific network of reef islands and atolls has seen sea levels rise around 6 inches over the past three decades—one and half times the global average. Tides are projected to climb another 6 inches by 2050, which […]
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:Coalition set sights on taxing luxury air travel to fund climate action
A group of eight countries is pledging to tax premium flying in a bid to find new money for resilience-building The post Coalition set sights on taxing luxury air travel to fund climate action appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:How off-grid solar is beating the odds to transform lives in rural Africa
By embracing solar power, many African countries are seeing improvements in electricity access, but financial barriers remain The post How off-grid solar is beating the odds to transform lives in rural Africa appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:Texas Supreme Court Rules on Produced Water Ownership
Texas is awash in billions of gallons of produced water, the wastewater brought to the surface in oil and gas drilling and fracking. Most produced water is injected into disposal wells. But since these wells were linked to earthquakes, companies are seeking alternatives. The race is on to turn produced water from a waste stream […]
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:National Science Foundation to Leave Virginia Headquarters as HUD Moves Out of DC
The National Science Foundation will be moving so the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development can take over its offices in Alexandria. The 1,800 employees at the science foundation were notified last week in a staff memo, a day before authorities from the federal and state government—including HUD Secretary Scott Turner and Gov. Glenn […]
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:Latest GOP Provisions in Budget Bill Seek to Crush Renewable Energy
Far from the front lines of the climate crisis, 100 men and women in air-conditioned offices, 61 of them millionaires, are making decisions that could increase United States carbon dioxide emissions, and the warming of the climate they are driving, for decades to come. In the latest political wrangle over energy and climate policy, a […]
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:Part of the New York City Park Experience: Joining the War on Invasives
It’s on the walls of brownstones and train stations and in New York City parks. And it isn’t mold—it’s English Ivy. A non-native plant, English Ivy (Hedera helix) outcompetes native flora and fauna for vital resources, degrades habitats and disrupts delicate ecosystems. Recognizing the threat, the Prospect Park Alliance hosted an invasive species removal event […]
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:Fast-growing, global-south cities are ‘strikingly underrepresented’ in climate research
Research on climate change in urban areas is skewed towards large, well-established cities in the... The post Fast-growing, global-south cities are ‘strikingly underrepresented’ in climate research appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:How unusual is this UK heat and is climate change to blame?
Scientists are clear that global warming is making heatwaves like this hotter and more likely.
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:The Carbon Brief Interview: Ofgem CEO Jonathan Brearley
Jonathan Brearley became chief executive of the UK’s energy regulator Ofgem in 2020. Since then,... The post The Carbon Brief Interview: Ofgem CEO Jonathan Brearley appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:Helping Bees Find New Homes Across New York City, From Fresh Kills to Street Planters
Tucked away in Brooklyn’s Calvert Vaux Park near Coney Island, one of the largest bee habitats in the city was once a rose garden, full of ornamental “Knock Out roses,” which are not native to the region. Now, replanted with mountain mint, coneflowers and milkweed, a pollinator garden attracts a variety of bees and birds […]
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:Analysis: UK climate aid to hit £11.6bn goal – but only due to accounting rule change
The amount of foreign aid the UK spends on climate action reached a record high... The post Analysis: UK climate aid to hit 11.6bn goal – but only due to accounting rule change appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 29, 2025 | Source:N.C. Has Allowed a Likely Carcinogen Into Three Rivers Serving 900,000 People
ASHEBORO, N.C.—Boxy, gunmetal gray buildings loom over a labyrinth of ducts and tubes and catwalks, beyond which 100 train cars loll on their tracks. Smokestacks wait to exhale. This is StarPet, a mammoth factory in north Asheboro that manufactures PET polymers, derived from fossil fuels and used in polyester fibers and plastic bottles. The facility […]
Published on: June 29, 2025 | Source:Truckers Say Oil and Gas Companies Are Violating Hazardous Materials Transport Regulations
Fracking’s Forever Problem: Fifth in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. When Tom McKnight started working for the oil and gas industry as a truck driver in Ohio more than 10 years ago, he attended an orientation where someone in the class asked about the possibility of radiation exposure from fracking waste. The […]
Published on: June 29, 2025 | Source:Texas’ Risk of Summer Blackouts Reduced Thanks to Solar and Batteries
The ever-increasing demand for power in Texas—not only from data centers, but due to industrial electrification, manufacturing and population expansion—has outpaced anything the state’s electricity grid operator has seen or managed in the past, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Yet even with those demands—and most of what could be one of the […]
Published on: June 28, 2025 | Source:A Class-Action Lawsuit Aims to Restore Climate and Environmental Grants
The Environmental Protection Agency and its administrator, Lee Zeldin, face a class-action lawsuit after canceling $3 billion in grant funding for climate and environmental programs in disadvantaged communities. The lawsuit, filed June 25 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, argues the EPA violated Congress’ spending power and legislative authority by eliminating […]
Published on: June 28, 2025 | Source:The Danger of Losing the EPA’s Endangerment Finding
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host and executive producer Steve Curwood with Richard Lazarus, the Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Record summer heat is scorching the northern hemisphere around the world from Japan and China to Europe and North America. […]
Published on: June 28, 2025 | Source:Chesapeake Bay Program Says No to Full Membership for Virginia Tribal Nations—for Now
The Chesapeake Bay Program declined to grant tribal nations full membership and voting rights in its governing body at a meeting Friday, its principal staff committee instead saying officials could explore advisory roles and potential partnerships with tribes. That decision came in response to a formal request by the Indigenous Conservation Council (ICC) on behalf […]
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:‘Systematically Failed’: Civil Society’s Latest Attempt to Reform UN Climate Talks
From Pacific Island students to executives at global organizations like Greenpeace, a wide swath of people are losing patience with the slow and often uneven international process for reining in climate change. This week, more than 200 civil society and Indigenous peoples’ groups released a joint statement calling for major reforms, from how decisions are […]
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:Countries reach hard-fought compromise on climate adaptation metrics in Bonn
Thorny negotiations on the Global Goal on Adaptation almost broke down as developing countries accused richer nations of trying to shirk their responsibilities The post Countries reach hard-fought compromise on climate adaptation metrics in Bonn appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2025 UN climate conference
Climate negotiators have wrapped up another two weeks of technical talks in the German city... The post Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2025 UN climate conference appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:Mining for transition minerals can be responsible with joint push, experts say
Strong regulation and community involvement can help avoid rights abuses and pollution in meeting clean tech demand, said a panel co-hosted by Climate Home The post Mining for transition minerals can be responsible with joint push, experts say appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:Trump Joins the Opposition to Vermont’s Climate Superfund Act, Calling it ‘Burdensome’ and ‘Ideologically Motivated’
Vermont’s Climate Superfund Act became law last summer. New York followed its lead in December. Four days later, the Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute sued Vermont for abusing its power and putting an unreasonable burden on the industry. On May 1, the Trump Department of Justice sued both Vermont and New York […]
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:Bonn Climate Talks Rife With Roadblocks and Dead Ends
As the United Nations climate talks came to a faltering end Thursday in Bonn, Germany, the world’s least developed countries and island nations feared for their future while some rich, developed countries backslid on climate promises and doubled down on fossil fuels. Preventing long-term warming of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above the […]
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:A third of Pacific island nation applies for Australian climate change visa
More than 4,000 Tuvalu citizens have entered the ballot for a world-first climate visa to Australia.
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:How Do You Escape a Heat Wave When You Have Nowhere to Go?
CHICAGO—In a large, air-conditioned room in East Garfield Park on Monday afternoon, Dhruv Trivedi waited quietly to hear if a bed would be available for him at a local shelter that night. It was a sweltering 95 degrees outside. Trivedi, unhoused for the past four months since losing his job at a grocery store, was […]
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:Brazil’s environment minister suggests roadmap to end fossil fuels at COP30
Brazil's environment minister Marina Silva suggests this year's COP30 climate summit could result in a roadmap to guide a "planned and just transition" The post Brazil’s environment minister suggests roadmap to end fossil fuels at COP30 appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source: