The Biden administration punctuated Earth Week by finalizing a sweeping set of regulations for power plants—the source of one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas pollution—that are designed to hasten the transition to clean electricity across the nation. The greenhouse gas rules offer plenty of exemptions...
One of the sideshows in a wild week for Tesla is how its market capitalization tumbled behind and then jumped back ahead of ExxonMobil. The fact that this is even a topic of conversation is a testament to how much Tesla has fallen, with sluggish sales and a vehicle lineup that is overdue for an […]
OAK GROVE, Ala.—Clara Riley and her family had a lot of questions. But on Monday, as they gathered around the 90-year-old’s small kitchen table, they weren’t getting many answers. Kristie Baggett, a representative of Crimson Oak Grove Resources LLC, a mining company, had come to the home after the Riley...
This story was originally published by Hakai and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Twenty years ago, Geoff Plant, the then attorney general of British Columbia, made an offer to the Haida Nation. Many West Coast First Nations, including the Haida, had never signed treatie...
NEW YORK CITY—Former Vice President Al Gore paid a visit to the Big Apple earlier this month to help train a new cohort of climate activists just ahead of Earth Day. The training session, which took place from April 12 to 14, was part of The Climate Reality Project, Gore’s nonprofit that focuses on providin...
This story was originally published by High Country News. Nine years ago, Glenn Olson joined a panel whose members, in ordinary circumstances, would rarely appear in the same room together — let alone work as a collaborative team. Olson, chair of bird conservation and public policy at the National Audubo...