"Economist William Nordhaus said putting a price on pollution was the best way to reduce climate change. Then came the fossil fuel lobby and the anti-tax movement."
"Every winter, India’s capital is blanketed with toxic smog. Breathing it in is like smoking roughly a dozen cigarettes a day. A major culprit: its notorious traffic."
"As more than a billion gallons of oil and gas wastewater flood beneath Ohio, pollution concerns reach its heated governor’s race."
"The agency says it will suspend efforts, in the works for more than 20 years, to develop measures that would allow the agency to enforce bedrock clean air laws at factory farms."
"Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, delivering a decisive rebuke of Republican governance in Washington and ushering in a new era of congressional resistance to President Donald Trump."
"Data centers have become political napalm. Election Day will show how far it’s spread."
Whether it's pipelines bringing leaks, coastal erosion and storms bringing displacement, or now, increasingly, data centers bringing loss of sovereignty, the central relationship that Indigenous communities have with place is under constant peril. Voices columnist Yessenia Funes urges fellow environmental journalists during Native American Heritage Month to refocus on the rich stories of Indigenous struggles and victories.
"Farmers around the world are spraying more chemicals than ever on their crops as they battle insect pests. Many of these small, hungry creatures have benefited from climate change, which has expanded their range, extended their breeding season, and made them harder to control with pesticides."
"Tens of thousands of documents on contamination, clean power, and Trump’s climate deletions are now scheduled to disappear."
"Soon, weed-killing chemicals will start falling from the sky over the Red Hill area of Boulder county, Colorado."
