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Blair says current net zero policies 'doomed to fail'
The former PM's call for a change of course is rejected by Downing Street but welcomed by the Tories and Reform.
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:
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EPA Head Pushes Mexico to Address Tijuana River Sewage in Recent San Diego Visit
Water knows no borders. Unfortunately, neither does sewage. Each day, the Tijuana River carries millions—and sometimes billions—of gallons of sewage across the U.S.-Mexico border into California, where it dumps into the ocean. This wave of waste frequently overwhelms wastewater treatment plants in both countries, fueling a public health and environmental crisis in nearby San Diego […]
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:Trump’s first 100 days: US walks away from global climate action
The Trump administration has pulled the plug on the UN climate process and its financial contributions, while at the same time backing fossil fuels and obstructing renewables The post Trump’s first 100 days: US walks away from global climate action appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:Canada votes to keep Carney as leader, over anti-climate Conservatives
The Conservatives would have scrapped a carbon tax on big industrial emitters and boosted oil and gas production The post Canada votes to keep Carney as leader, over anti-climate Conservatives appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:Citing Trump Emergency Order, Army Corps Expedites Review for Line 5 Oil Pipeline in Great Lakes’ Wetlands
The Army Corps of Engineers, citing a recent national energy emergency order by President Trump, has expedited a permit review for a new miles-long section of an oil and gas pipeline that would bore deep into protected wetlands bordering Canada and the United States. The pipeline request from Enbridge Energy, a Canadian company, would cut […]
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:‘Secret Deal’ in California Would Weaken Regulations for Oil Refineries
This article was originally published by Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative news organization. Find out more at publichealthwatch.org. On August 6, 2012, a corroded, eight-inch pipe at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, cracked open, sending a white cloud hundreds of feet into the air. The cloud quickly engulfed the 19 refinery firefighters, managers […]
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:EPA Says It Will Act on PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals.’ Advocates Raise Red Flags
As the Environmental Protection Agency works to roll back multiple public-health protections, it announced Monday that it intends to take action to combat toxic forever chemicals. Advocates are skeptical, saying the language of the announcement raises red flags. The EPA announcement consists of a list of proposed actions to target contamination by per– and polyfluoroalkyl […]
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:In Montana, Republican State Legislators Fight Back After Successful Youth Climate Lawsuit
In the wake of a high-profile court decision that upended the state of Montana’s climate policy, Republican lawmakers in the state are pushing a suite of bills that could gut the state’s ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The full-court legislative press targets the state’s environmental analysis, air quality regulation and judicial system. It stems […]
Published on: April 28, 2025 | Source:Illinois Delays a Project Meant to Keep Asian Carp Out of the Great Lakes
One stretch of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal near Joliet, Illinois, is what freshwater biologists call a pinch point. Here, at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam, workers are preparing a site for barriers to keep invasive bighead and silver carp from infiltrating the Great Lakes. If enough of them slip by before the […]
Published on: April 28, 2025 | Source:Who Has the Right to Decide What Happens on Indigenous Lands?
Members of the Indigenous Waorani village of Kiwaro looked skyward as a helicopter hovered over the rainforest canopy in the center of Ecuador and landed in a nearby clearing. Out stepped government officials, there to inform the community about an impending auction of oil rights on their land. The Ecuadorian government announced earlier, in November […]
Published on: April 27, 2025 | Source:In Booming Central Texas, Wastewater Is Polluting Rivers and Streams
TARPLEY, Texas–Margo Denke set out to rally the town when she learned that a Christian youth camp planned to build a wastewater treatment plant and discharge its effluent into the pristine Hill Country creek that ran through her small ranch. Denke, a 1981 graduate of Harvard Medical School who moved to the Hill Country in […]
Published on: April 27, 2025 | Source:Area burned by UK wildfires in 2025 already at annual record
The prolonged dry, sunny weather in March and April created ideal conditions for wildfires to spread.
Published on: April 26, 2025 | Source:How a Changing Climate Is Reshaping the Spread of Infectious Diseases
As global temperatures rise, the spread of infectious diseases is rapidly evolving in unexpected ways. That’s something that Dr. Angelle Desiree LaBeaud thinks about a lot. A physician-scientist, epidemiologist and professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Stanford University’s School of Medicine, LaBeaud studies the epidemiology and ecology of domestic and international arboviruses […]
Published on: April 26, 2025 | Source:Maryland’s Climate Ambitions in Question After Turbulent Legislative Session
Environmental leaders in Maryland are reeling from a challenging 2025 legislative session that left them questioning whether the state can still meet its clean energy and emissions reduction targets in the wake of policy rollbacks and carve-outs approved by lawmakers. The 90-day General Assembly session ended earlier this month amid a flurry of compromises. Some […]
Published on: April 26, 2025 | Source:She Galvanized Her Community After a Company Contaminated It With ‘Forever Chemicals’
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Laurene Allen, a Goldman Environmental Prize winner. Laurene Allen moved to Merrimack, New Hampshire, to raise a family in the 1980s. Little did she know that, in 2016, the state Department of Environmental Services would reveal […]
Published on: April 26, 2025 | Source:Snowflakes, Death Threats and Dollar Signs: Cloud Seeding Is at a Crossroads
Listen to an audio version of this story below. Humans have the technology to literally make snow fall from the clouds. In the drought-stricken Southwest, where the Colorado River needs every drop of water it can get, there are calls to use it more. Utah, home to the nation’s largest cloud seeding program, is at […]
Published on: April 26, 2025 | Source:Spring's hot weather to be treat for nature lovers
A spell of hot weather will give a boost to nature as migratory birds return and butterflies emerge.
Published on: April 26, 2025 | Source:As US Dismantles Its Climate Policy, Other World Leaders Seek Solidarity
As the U.S. Department of State proposed this week to shut down its office managing international climate policy, leaders from several other countries that are key to the climate fight said they are determined to press ahead with global action. If it withstands congressional review, the State Department’s move, announced Tuesday, could further solidify the […]
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:Universities, States Have ‘Responsibility’ to Act on Climate in Trump Era, UMass President says
University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan didn’t play it safe when giving his State of the University address at the UMass Boston campus this week. Instead of talking about the system’s growing enrollment, faculty achievements or any number of non-controversial topics, Meehan laid out a vision for how the UMass system, with its five campuses […]
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:Behind the Scenes: Communities Around ‘Last-Mile Warehouses’ Struggle With Online Shopping Boom’s Pollution
Online shopping has reached epic proportions in the United States—and Manhattan is its beating heart. More than 2.4 million packages are delivered to New York City every weekday, and around 90 percent of goods are transported into or around the city by trucks. While shipping may be free for consumers on many of these orders, […]
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:Trump throws lifeline to Canadian deep-sea miner, setting scene for international clash
US president’s executive order looks like a victory for Vancouver-based The Metals Company (TMC) and other industry advocates, but fierce environmental and international opposition still stands in the way of ocean floor mining The post Trump throws lifeline to Canadian deep-sea miner, setting scene for international clash appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:‘We Are Nature’: Indigenous Women Come Together at the United Nations
The women had come from across the world, convening at the United Nations Plaza to share the struggles they’d faced reclaiming ancestral lands, fighting pollution from extractive industries and employing Indigenous knowledge to counter the climate crisis. “Our traditional knowledge systems are powerful,” said Aimee Roberson, a citizen of the Choctaw nation of Oklahoma and […]
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:Climate shocks and volatile currencies hike debt burden for poor countries
Least-developed countries and island nations are struggling with crippling debt levels made worse by global currency fluctuations and climate disasters hitting their economies The post Climate shocks and volatile currencies hike debt burden for poor countries appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:DeBriefed 25 April 2025: Brazil calls for country emissions plans; Global coral bleaching; Where top pope contenders stand on climate
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed.An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate... The post DeBriefed 25 April 2025: Brazil calls for country emissions plans; Global coral bleaching; Where top pope contenders stand on climate appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:Trump deep sea mining order violates law, China says
The US president speeds up permits for a practice opposed by many countries and environmentalists.
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:Individual action won’t save the climate – unless governments and businesses back it
Without transforming overarching systems, green efforts by consumers will fall far short of their potential to cut emissions The post Individual action won’t save the climate – unless governments and businesses back it appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:How Will Trump’s Effort to Revitalize Coal Play Out in the Nation’s Most Productive Coal Fields?
On a cool morning in late February, Mark Fix was up before the sun to watch the Tongue River on his ranch in southeast Montana. He was concerned that a breaching ice dam could put his cattle and property in the path of rushing water carrying plates of ice the size of a dinner table. […]
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:The World’s Biggest Meat Company Gets the Greenlight to Go Public on the New York Stock Exchange
The world’s largest meat company, Brazil-based JBS, has sought a listing on the New York Stock Exchange for more than a decade, but the company, which has long been accused of links to illegal deforestation in the Amazon, was stymied by corruption charges. On Wednesday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission greenlighted the listing, despite […]
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:Trump’s Latest USDA Cuts Undermine His Plan to ‘Make America Healthy Again’
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Early in the morning last Monday, a group of third graders huddled in the garden of Mendota Elementary School in Madison, Wisconsin. Of the dozen students present, a handful were busy filling up buckets of compost, others […]
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:Just Stop Oil was policed to extinction - now the movement has gone deeper underground
Climate activists may be going deeper underground.
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:A Grim Signal: Atmospheric CO2 Soared in 2024
The latest anomaly in the climate system that can’t be fully explained by researchers is a record annual jump in the global mean concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measured in 2024. The concentration, measured in parts per million, has been increasing rapidly since human civilizations started burning coal and oil in the mid-1800s […]
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:At energy security talks, US pushes gas and derides renewables
The US envoy to the IEA's energy security summit criticised renewables, arguing that they cause power cuts and increase reliance on China The post At energy security talks, US pushes gas and derides renewables appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:Xi commits China to full climate plan but emissions-cutting ambition still unclear
The Chinese president told fellow global leaders that the country's updated climate plan would cover all economic sectors and greenhouse gases The post Xi commits China to full climate plan but emissions-cutting ambition still unclear appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:State of the climate: 2025 close behind 2024 as the hottest start to a year
Global temperatures in the first quarter of 2025 were the second warmest on record, extending... The post State of the climate: 2025 close behind 2024 as the hottest start to a year appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:Community Solar Plays Defense in Minnesota
A groundbreaking community solar program is fighting for its life in Minnesota. Legislation in the state Senate would end the subscription-based “solar garden” program that started in 2013, got a major revision in 2023 and has been a model for other states. The case against this initiative can be summed up by testimony last month […]
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: