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"The world has never been closer to breaching the 1.5C (2.7F) global heating limit, even if only temporarily, the United Nations’ weather agency has warned."
"The League of Conservation Voters, among the biggest spenders on progressive causes, said it would put $120 million behind President Biden and Democrats as his Republican rival faces cash woes."
"The Biden administration released one of several coming car regulations Tuesday, a clean vehicle formula designed to push automakers to build more fuel-efficient or electric vehicles."
"As House Republicans gear up for a four-day sprint of hearings and floor debate devoted to undermining President Joe Biden’s environmental agenda, environmental groups are preparing to fight back."
"In a country especially vulnerable to climate change, a drought has displaced entire villages and left millions of children malnourished."
"To some, it felt like the oil executive blurted the quiet part out loud. “We should abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and gas,” said Amin Nasser, head of what is, by far, the world’s biggest oil producer, Saudi Aramco."
"U.S. energy use has been flat, but bitcoin, data centers and EVs are fueling a spike and threatening climate goals."
"Incarcerated people often must drink unhealthy water, a particularly cruel – but not unusual – form of punishment".
"People have long drawn comparisons between ant societies and human ones – but in fact they are a reminder of how limited our influence on the world really is"
"The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year."
"A federal bank that finances projects overseas voted Thursday to put $500 million toward an oil and gas project in Bahrain, a transaction that critics said was out of step with President Biden’s climate commitments."
"Up to 10 informants managed by the FBI were embedded in anti-pipeline resistance camps near the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation at the height of mass protests against the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016."
"Flight booking platforms are giving customers a new number to think about when they buy a plane ticket: the expected greenhouse gas emissions of their trip."
"An appeals court with a famously conservative bent narrowly rejected the Biden administration’s request to reconsider its August ruling that stripped the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of authority to license private nuclear waste storage facilities not located at a reactor site."
"The former president has deployed increasingly aggressive talk about electric vehicles and their effect on the American economy."
