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USDA Staffing and Funding Cuts Would Threaten Virginia’s Ability to Reach Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goals
Lee Good grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania and raises cows, calfs, crops and hay on about 200 acres in the foothills of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. Good, 55, previously farmed as a hobby but now makes his living in Rockingham County, the top contributor to the state’s top private industry—agriculture. He cares about clean […]
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:
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Property Rights Take Center Stage as Montana Grapples With Wind Development
Colstrip, in Rosebud County, Montana, sitting next door to the strip mines that feed it, remains the second-largest coal power plant in the American West, even after part of it was retired in 2019. But not long after that, Rosebud County also became the home of the biggest wind energy project in Montana. “When you […]
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Climate experts criticise handling of Tata changes
Ministers should have been better at planning and making sure green jobs were available, report says.
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Wild chimpanzees filmed using forest 'first aid'
The research builds on the discovery that chimps seek out and eat certain plants to self-medicate.
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Pharmaceutical Pollution Is Widespread Across the World’s Waterways
Many of the world’s waterways are awash with varying levels of pharmaceuticals, according to a wide body of research. These medical byproducts come from all different sources, including industrial dumping and agriculture. They can even come from our own waste; peoples’ bodies don’t absorb all the medication they take, so much of it ends up […]
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:In a Landmark PFAS Payout, 3M to Pay New Jersey $450 Million
In a historic settlement, chemical giant 3M has agreed to pay up to $450 million to New Jersey to resolve claims over its role in decades-long contamination from toxic “forever chemicals,” just days before a scheduled trial that would have been the first in the country to determine environmental PFAS liability to a state. The […]
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:Dutch Environmental Group Launches New Climate Case Against Shell to Stop All Investment in New Oil and Gas Fields
The Dutch NGO that won a historic court verdict in 2021 in a pioneering climate lawsuit against the oil major Shell announced on Tuesday that it is launching a new case against the company, with the core demand that Shell immediately stop investing in any new oil and gas fields. “At a time in which […]
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:Trump shifts US funds from shutting down foreign fossil fuels to expanding them
The US administration has pulled clean energy and just transition funding in South Africa and is pressuring EXIM and the World Bank to back fossil fuels The post Trump shifts US funds from shutting down foreign fossil fuels to expanding them appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:How to make electric vehicles that don’t trash forests through mining
Using battery technology that is less reliant on minerals can avert worsening environmental damage caused by the stampede to secure materials for EVs The post How to make electric vehicles that don’t trash forests through mining appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:Texas Oil and Gas Companies Drill With River Water During Extreme Drought
PECOS, Texas—Extreme drought has diminished the flows of the Rio Grande and Pecos River, two of the most iconic waterways in Texas. The advocacy group American Rivers recently named the Lower Rio Grande one of its most endangered rivers, describing a “near-permanent human-induced megadrought threatening all life that depends on it.” On the Pecos River, […]
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:Swamp Coolers’ Ability to Beat the Heat is Evaporating in Record Southwestern Temperatures
“I just couldn’t think straight,” Albuquerque resident Becky Wood said, describing what it felt like attempting to get work done in an 85-degree house during the city’s hottest summer days. “I would find myself sitting on the couch, wanting to take a nap. I felt like I had brain fog, but it was just like […]
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:Why the mighty Himalayas are getting harder and harder to see
Severe air pollution is obscuring visibility of the highest mountain peaks on Earth, hitting tourism hard.
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:Policy Experts Fear Laxer Climate Rules Could Leave U.S. Markets Open to Greater Volatility
Experts and advocates reacted with concern and disappointment after the world’s top financial regulators agreed on Monday to shift the climate focus of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision toward voluntary disclosures and a narrower focus on extreme weather—a move seen as a step back from earlier momentum toward mandatory global standards. The Group of […]
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Despite Problems in and out of State, Horne LLP Is Again Chosen by N.C. Officials to Run Disaster Relief Efforts
A company whose earlier disaster recovery contract in North Carolina was marked with serious communications problems will return to run North Carolina’s disaster recovery program in western counties flattened by Hurricane Helene. The N.C. Department of Commerce on May 9 awarded a project management contract to Horne LLP, worth $81.5 million over the next three […]
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Let’s use early milestones to stay focused on climate action
To make sure we meet a 2030 goal to triple outflows from UN climate funds agreed at COP29, work needs to start now The post Let’s useearly milestones to stay focused on climate action appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Northeastern States Unveil New Grid Planning Strategy in Attempt to Regain Control Over Energy Future
Maryland and eight other Northeastern states last month released a first-of-its-kind transmission action plan. Experts view it as a direct response to years of frustration with regional grid operators over stalled clean energy projects and surging electricity costs that states say undercut their climate mandates and reflect the outsized influence of private utility interests. Known […]
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Should Pittsburgh’s Water Stay Public? Residents Will Get to Vote on It
PITTSBURGH, Pa.—In a state where far more people get their drinking water from private companies than the national average, Pittsburgh voters will decide this month whether to ensure their water and sewer service remains publicly owned and operated. The referendum, on the ballot as part of the May 20 mayoral primary elections, would amend the […]
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Rising copper demand fuels concern over pollution and rights abuses
The UN has dubbed copper the “new strategic raw material” for the green digital economy - but will more mining come at a high cost to communities? The post Rising copper demand fuels concern over pollution and rights abuses appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: May 11, 2025 | Source:Alabamians Want Answers About a Four-Million-Square-Foot Data Center Coming to Their Backyards
BESSEMER, Ala.—They all came here for peace, and so far, the land has given it to them. For Marshall Killingsworth, the peace comes from the owls whose hoots echo across the valley as he sits in his favorite spot in his garden. For David Havron, it’s looking up at the stars at night as the […]
Published on: May 11, 2025 | Source:As Federal Incentive Rollbacks Loom, Could the Heat Pump Revolution Stall Out?
PHILADELPHIA—It was an unseasonably warm spring day, and Jackie Robinson was keen to show off a machine that many climate advocates say is the cooling technology of the future. “Welcome to my heat pump lab,” Robinson said. “Come on in.” Robinson’s lab, buried inside a sprawling former factory in Philadelphia’s rough-and-tumble Kensington neighborhood, contains a […]
Published on: May 11, 2025 | Source:Soviet-era spacecraft 'likely' to have re-entered Earth's atmosphere
The spacecraft, which launched in 1972 on a mission to Venus, circled Earth for over five decades.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:New York Bitcoin Miners Are Buying Up Power Plants—and Communities Are Fighting Back
New York is home to four of the largest bitcoin mines in the country, which consume huge quantities of electric power and water to cool their server farms, emit loud humming noises around the clock and flood the atmosphere with copious greenhouse gases and pollutants. In many cases, they are also driving nearby residents crazy. […]
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:A New Handbook Shows Churches How to Hold Fossil Fuel Actors Accountable
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Frederique Seidel, senior program lead on children and climate at the World Council of Churches. Climate disruption poses an existential threat to the future of children around the world, with wildfires, floods, extreme heat and more putting […]
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:A Dry Winter on the Colorado River Has Big Reservoirs on Track for Trouble
If you took a look at a map of Rocky Mountain snow right now you would see a lot of red. The mountains that feed the Colorado River with snowmelt are strikingly dry, with many ranges holding less than 50 percent of their average snow for this time of year. The low totals could spell […]
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Acting Head of FEMA Ousted as Trump Seemingly Moves to Eliminate the Agency
One day after the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said that eliminating FEMA was not “in the best interest of the American people,” the Trump administration ousted him. Now, as the country heads into the stretch of months most prone to wildfires, no one knows if the federal agency key to preventing […]
Published on: May 09, 2025 | Source:Nighttime Flaring at Shell Plastics Plant Lit Up Beaver County ‘Like Dawn’
Driving home from work late on April 25, Leah Thomas noticed the sky over Beaver County was glowing red. “At first I thought maybe it was a fire, or that something was burning,” she said. As she got closer, she realized the light was coming from the Shell ethane cracker plant, a huge plastics manufacturing […]
Published on: May 09, 2025 | Source:Captive-Bred Axolotls Were Successfully Introduced to the Wild. Can This Work for Other Species?
If an animal is born in captivity, can it ever truly thrive in the wild? The answer is complicated. As escalating threats, from climate change to development, decimate biodiversity, scientists and conservationists are scrambling to raise certain species in captivity. The goal: Eventually release them back into their habitats to rebuild populations. The latest poster […]
Published on: May 09, 2025 | Source:Brazil calls on local groups to “inspire” governments in boosting climate action
With 90% of countries yet to produce updated climate plans, the COP30 presidency is encouraging grassroots organisations to lead the way The post Brazil calls on local groups to “inspire” governments in boosting climate action appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: May 09, 2025 | Source:Soviet-era spacecraft set to crash back to Earth
The spacecraft was meant to go to Venus but has been stuck in orbit for more than 50 years.
Published on: May 09, 2025 | Source:New PacifiCorp Forecast Sees More Fossil-Fueled Electricity. How Will That Affect Western Energy Jobs?
PacifiCorp, the parent company of Rocky Mountain Power, is walking back plans to grow its renewable energy portfolio, instead forecasting that coal plants without an “enforceable environmental compliance requirement” will remain online through 2045. The projection came in March as part of PacifiCorp’s 2025 integrated resource plan, a roadmap for the utility’s electrical generation over […]
Published on: May 09, 2025 | Source:Youngkin Vetoes Clean Energy Bills That Garnered Support From Dominion, Environmental Groups
RICHMOND, Va.–Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two bills for the development of small solar projects and energy storage that had won bipartisan votes and support from Dominion Energy, environmental groups and farm and forestry representatives. The bills would have encouraged private homes and companies to initiate solar projects and bolstered the existing utility’s efforts to capture […]
Published on: May 09, 2025 | Source:Maryland’s Sustainability Chief Reflects on a ‘Difficult’ Year of Legislative Setbacks
When Meghan Conklin became Maryland’s first-ever chief sustainability officer in 2024, the state seemed poised for rapid climate progress. With billions of dollars in federal funding available under the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law), decision makers were preparing to meet statutory mandates to […]
Published on: May 09, 2025 | Source:Climate justice is vital for global security
If governments step back from their commitments to tackle climate change, the world will see population displacement, political unrest and conflict The post Climate justice is vital for global security appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: May 09, 2025 | Source:Litter 'nightmare' as street cleanliness worst on record
Residents say litter near their homes is "heart-breaking" as survey finds worst situation on record.
Published on: May 09, 2025 | Source:Moon dust 'rarer than gold' arrives in UK from China
First Moon samples collected in nearly 50 years and loaned by China for the first time are now in the UK.
Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source: