The forthcoming closure of the Grangemouth oil refinery will be a key test of whether the "just transition" can be a reality, a watchdog has said.
Hundreds of jobs are at risk at the site, with…
ELY, Nevada—The smell of piñon pine filled the air as the Ghost Train of Old Ely rolled to a stop between the Duck Creek Range and another railway. Two peaks of jagged limestone towered above the…
EPES, Ala.—Portia Shepherd said “it’s a God thing.”
When she learned that Enviva, an international wood pellet company, is facing a financial crisis that may impact its plans in Alabama, she was…
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates— As COP28 ended with just a faint glimmer of hope that the world will take seriously the need to decarbonize by 2050, leading scientists at the conference said it’s time…
Catherine Coleman Flowers brings Alabama’s Black Belt with her everywhere she goes. She can’t help it.
Flowers, founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, most…
SAN FRANCISCO—Scientists who have risked their careers, freedom and livelihoods led a town hall meeting here on Tuesday at the world’s largest annual gathering of earth and space scientists to ask…
When it looked like climate negotiations in Dubai were about to fall apart early this week over the summit’s failure to make any commitment to transition away from fossil fuels, U.S. Special Climate…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Going into overtime under the cover of a dark winter night in Dubai, climate negotiators at COP28 cooked up a weak sauce of climate half-measures that fail to adequately…
CEDAR KEY, Fla.—For this island fishing village along Florida’s Gulf Coast, Hurricane Idalia wrought some of its worst damage not on land but offshore.
On the evening of May 17, 1970, the 19th car of a freight train derailed in the Pennsylvania village of Cromby, a small town nestled along a horseshoe curve in the Schuylkill River about 30 miles…
As the United Nations’ annual climate summit wraps up in Dubai this week, farm and food groups are applauding the conference leadership for its intensified focus on agriculture, a major source of…
Harm City: Fifth in a series about environmental justice and climate adaptation in Baltimore’s neighborhoods.
For Ben Zaitchik, the moment had arrived. He’d been working at Johns Hopkins University…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—As negotiators at COP28 debate which verbs in the final documents would indicate the correct level of urgency, scientists at the global talks delivered a simple, dire…
Alabama students on both sides of the political aisle said that in the reality of today’s world and political environment, one mention of a pressing global issue simply won’t suffice.
“Whether the…
Claims by some U.S. lawmakers at COP28 that President Biden’s policies provide global leadership on climate rang hollow with leading American climate activists at the annual conference who faulted…
Because of Biden’s domestic policies, other countries are once again looking to the United States for climate leadership, said Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. of New Jersey, the ranking Democrat on the Energy…
For the second time in three weeks, a court struck down an air pollution permit issued by Texas’ environmental regulator.
In a one-page ruling posted Tuesday, Travis County District Court Judge Amy…
The Education of Judith Kimerling: An American lawyer’s epic struggle to stop expanding oil operations harming Indigenous peoples in Ecuador’s Amazon. Part two.
But the project isn’t here yet, and won’t be until 2030 or later, due in part to the deliberate pace the Danish and European governments have set.
Jacob Trøst, Bornholm’s mayor, is preparing his…
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