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Trump Dismisses Civil Rights, Fair Housing Cases in Chicago To Focus on ‘Real Concerns’
Saying it wants to focus on “real concerns” around fair housing, President Donald Trump’s administration is dropping two long-fought cases in Chicago that the feds previously agreed showed discriminatory practices. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said it will no longer monitor a civil rights agreement with the city that called for zoning […]
Published on: August 07, 2025 | Source:
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Oil states accused of using scare tactics in bid to sink green shipping deal
Saudi Arabia, Iran and other oil-reliant countries are campaigning to stop the adoption of the IMO's Net-zero Framework in October The post Oil states accused of using scare tactics in bid to sink green shipping deal appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 07, 2025 | Source:Amazon fires threaten initiatives to raise cash for rainforest protection
Brazil’s Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) and other innovative finance tools will be showcased at COP30, but surging wildfires in the Amazon pose a threat to their success, climate experts warn The post Amazon fires threaten initiatives to raise cash for rainforest protection appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 07, 2025 | Source:China Briefing 7 August 2025: Deadly floods; ‘Industrial Cthulhu’; Higher solar forecast
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate... The post China Briefing 7 August 2025: Deadly floods; ‘Industrial Cthulhu’; Higher solar forecast appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: August 07, 2025 | Source:Why Prices Are Soaring in the Country’s Largest Grid Region, Explained in 5 Charts
PJM Interconnection, the nonprofit that manages the country’s largest electricity grid region, is barely known by the general public and almost never mentioned by elected officials—except when something bad happens. Well, something bad has happened. For two years in a row, PJM’s process for ensuring the grid has sufficient power plant capacity has resulted in […]
Published on: August 07, 2025 | Source:Explainer: What is ‘climate anxiety’?
As temperature records are shattered, ice rapidly melts and extreme weather events worsen, many people... The post Explainer: What is ‘climate anxiety’? appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: August 07, 2025 | Source:Guest post: What an ‘ambitious’ 2035 electricity target looks like for China
China’s power sector is both the world’s largest emitter and the largest source of clean-energy... The post Guest post: What an ‘ambitious’ 2035 electricity target looks like for China appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: August 07, 2025 | Source:As a Critical Minerals Mine Nears Approval in Arizona, Residents Fear It’s Already Affecting Area Water
PATAGONIA, Ariz.—When Becky and John Ball retired from careers in firefighting, they found their dream home in the foothills of Arizona’s famed Patagonia mountains. But less than a year after moving in, they worry they made a mistake. In June, a letter arrived in the mail informing them their home was within the “cone of […]
Published on: August 07, 2025 | Source:Activists Target Wells Fargo for Dropping its Climate Commitments
Outside the opulent, 73-story Hudson Yards tower in Midtown Manhattan, a group of climate activists gathered at the building’s northwest entrance at 33rd Street and 10th Avenue. Inside the skyscraper, Wells Fargo, the activists’ target, occupied nine separate floors. As Reb Spring, the spokesperson for Debt for Climate, unfurled a banner that read “End Financial […]
Published on: August 07, 2025 | Source:New checks to stop waste tyres being sent to furnaces
Campaigners warn the move will not close all the recycling loopholes being exploited by criminals.
Published on: August 07, 2025 | Source:Federal Rooftop Solar Grants Are on the Chopping Block. Here’s Who Would Get Hurt
A $7 billion program designed to reduce electricity bills while increasing the use of rooftop solar is facing potential cuts from the Trump administration. The Solar for All program survived previous waves of cancellations of other renewable energy initiatives this year, but grant recipients have said they expect to receive notice as soon as this […]
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:Journalist Corey Mitchell Joins Inside Climate News as a Senior Editor
Corey Mitchell, an award-winning journalist, has joined Inside Climate News as a senior editor overseeing bureaus in the Midwest and New York and correspondents covering climate science and renewable energy. Mitchell was previously an editor at The Seattle Times, where he led a team of reporters covering education in Washington state, and The Conversation, which […]
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:Bad timing for change of leader at Nigeria’s climate council, campaigners say
Three months before COP30 and weeks from a deadline to submit an updated national climate plan, Nigeria's NCCC has got its third director-general since 2022 The post Bad timing for change of leader at Nigeria’s climate council, campaigners say appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:Revealed: ‘Cali Fund’ for nature still empty as emails show industry hesitation
A major fund for biodiversity remains starved of resources more than five months after its... The post Revealed: ‘Cali Fund’ for nature still empty as emails show industry hesitation appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:To Florida’s Miccosukee Tribe, the Lands Around Alligator Alcatraz Are Sacred, Pythons and All
MIAMI—Less than four miles from Alligator Alcatraz, the Everglades detention site where the Trump administration aims to incarcerate and deport thousands of undocumented migrants, is the chickee hut where Betty Osceola has lived all her life. After dark she can see the light emanating through the wilderness from the facility. For many generations, Florida’s Miccosukee […]
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:Environmental Groups, EPA Spar In Court Over Trump’s Cancellation of Resiliency Funding
WASHINGTON—Last month, the town of Dante in Southwest Virginia’s Appalachia region saw about 3.5 inches of rainfall over a couple of hours. The heavy downpour ran off the steep mountainside surrounding the town, and surged upward from nearby Lick Creek. The normal amount of rainfall for the town in July is about 5 inches, according […]
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:Uranium Company Receives Wyoming’s First Fast-Tracked Mining Permits
Uranium Energy Corp.’s Sweetwater uranium project has become the first mining proposal in Wyoming to be fast-tracked under President Donald Trump’s March executive order to increase U.S. mineral production. The company announced Aug. 5 that it planned to expand its uranium mining operations in Wyoming’s Red Desert as a result of the expedited permitting process. […]
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:Oceangate's Titan whistleblower: 'People were sold a lie'
A former Oceangate employee says he told US authorities about safety concerns with the sub before it imploded.
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral decline on record
Reefs have been battered by cyclones and starfish that eat coral, but heat stress driven by climate change is the main cause of damage.
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:Nations Meet in Geneva in a Final Push to End Plastic Pollution
Delegates from 184 countries met in Geneva Tuesday to resume negotiations in the last scheduled opportunity to halt the escalating plastic pollution crisis through a legally binding global agreement. Negotiations for the U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution started three-and-a-half years ago but reached an impasse, primarily over whether to limit plastic production, during […]
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:Gorillas seek out old female friends even after years apart
A study in Rwanda reveals the significance of a social connection between female mountain gorillas.
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Alabama Power Gets Approval to Buy $622 Million Natural Gas Plant, Expecting More Data Centers
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Alabama state regulators have cleared the way for Alabama Power to purchase an 895-megawatt gas-fired power plant, further tying Alabama’s largest electric utility to climate-polluting natural gas for decades to come. The three-member Alabama Public Service Commission unanimously approved a request from the utility to purchase the Lindsay Hill Generating Station near Billingsley. The […]
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Changes in Nature’s Symphony Can Reflect Climate Impacts
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? The answer is a resounding yes—and we know this for certain because of the vast network of audio recorders that researchers have set up in recent decades to eavesdrop on nature’s symphony, from chirping birds […]
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Copper Mines Close in on Western Apache Sacred Site, and the Forest Protected to Mitigate The Damage
MAMMOTH, Ariz.—On the banks of the San Pedro River lies one of the American Southwest’s few remaining old-growth mesquite bosques—a streamside forest in more than 3,000 acres of riparian ecosystem that is one of Arizona’s last intact landscapes. Known as the 7B Ranch, the mesquite forest is vital to the area’s biodiversity. It is the […]
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Divided nations start “final” talks on UN treaty to save us from “drowning in plastic pollution”
The key divide is whether the new treaty includes a target to limit plastic production or just focuses on recycling and waste management The post Divided nations start “final” talks on UN treaty to save us from “drowning in plastic pollution” appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Nasa to put nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 - US media
The reactor would provide power for humans on the Moon but there are questions about feasibility.
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Kids in Pennsylvania Are Breathing (Much) Easier After a Coal Plant Shuttered
In 2015, when Karen Grzywinski heard that the Shenango Coke Works near Pittsburgh was closing after 54 years in operation, she didn’t believe it. Neither did her neighbors, some of whom had joined her in fighting a long battle for the plant to better control its pollution. “A number of us thought it was a […]
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:New York Can’t Meet Its Ambitious Climate Targets. Maybe the Plan Was Doomed From the Start
It’s hot and humid in New York City. After a long, cold winter, the heat came suddenly—days after the official start of summer. Central Park hit its highest temperature—99 degrees—since 2012 and Con Edison, the area’s main electricity provider, issued blackout warnings. Between 2018 and 2022, an average of 525 deaths a year were attributed […]
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Countries gather to thrash out deal on 'plastic crisis'
The world's nations are hoping to sign the first global plastic treaty to limit plastic pollution.
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Amid Federal PFAS Rollbacks, New Jersey Scores Record $2 Billion DuPont Settlement
While the federal government is scaling back regulations on “forever chemicals,” New Jersey is holding polluters accountable, announcing a record-breaking $2 billion settlement with DuPont and several related companies with a $875 million payout and up to $1.2 billion in cleanup costs. The deal, which follows a two-month-long trial, is touted by New Jersey officials […]
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Grand Canyon Fire Is Now the Largest Burning in the Nation
A wildfire that has closed the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park raged out of control over the weekend and is now the largest currently burning in the country. The Dragon Bravo fire has burned more than 123,000 acres and was only 13 percent contained as of Monday afternoon, according to a federal interagency […]
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:New Data Center Proposals Would ‘Kill’ Michigan’s Strong New Climate Laws
The “offramp” provision in Michigan’s 2023 climate and clean energy laws allows utilities to keep running or building fossil fuel plants if renewable sources cannot handle the energy grid’s load. Now, newly proposed data centers could cause the offramp to be triggered, as DTE Energy executives say they are working on plans to power those […]
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Brazil launches COP30 accommodation platform after pressure from UN committee
The long-delayed official booking website offered 2,700 additional rooms, but significant markups and sky-high prices remained The post Brazil launches COP30 accommodation platform after pressure from UN committee appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Massive Sea Star Die-Offs, and Suspect a Link to Global Warming
After years of scientific sleuthing, a team of West Coast researchers reported that they have identified a particular strain of ocean bacteria that has killed more than 6 billion sea stars since 2013. In a paper published Monday in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, they said the die-off was caused by a type of […]
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:The global plastics treaty must move forward, with or without the US
While the Trump administration sides with the petrochemical industry, it is time for ordinary people to speak up about plastic pollution The post The global plastics treaty must move forward, with or without the US appeared first on Climate Home News.
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