Posts by alicia.eakin@weathergroup.com

This story was published in partnership by Inside Climate News and the Texas Observer.  Juan Benito Mancias draws his identity from the landscape at the Rio Grande’s end not because he owns it, but because it owns his people, literally. His ancestors lie buried in it, going back millennia. Sadly for Mancias, U.S. law provides […]

Harms include severe weather, crop failures and economic hits from lack of ice and snow.

Skyrocketing electric bills are threatening California’s climate, electrification, and energy equity goals. Last week, state regulators approved a major policy shift meant to address this problem — but left the core driver of the bill increases untouched. In a unanimous decision, the California Public Utilities…

On the warm spring night of April 28, Houston had a problem. Denizens of the most populous region in Texas were cranking up air conditioning to beat the early burst of summery heat. Texas’ nation-leading solar fleet had wound down for the night, passing the baton to the nation’s largest fleet of fossil-fuel-burning…

Scientists have been tracking how strong storms have eaten into the Gulf state’s coastline.

The community on the coast of Washington state has a plan to establish a new village with low-impact development and green infrastructure.

Clutching a sheaf of typed notes with one hand and the steering wheel of her electric car with the other, Maya van Rossum was driving west on I-276 and practicing the message she planned to deliver to Pennsylvania’s governor later that morning when she realized—belatedly—that she was going to need a cough drop. The plan […]

SHILOH COMMUNITY, Ala.—Their land is bound forever.  The deeds of three homeowners—Pastor Timothy Williams, Aretha Wright and Page Jones—all living in the historically Black Shiloh community of south Alabama, tell the tale.  Restrictive covenants attached to their deeds limit the ability of current and future residents to file actions against the state. The legal instruments […]

As sunlight waned, the glow of artificial light revealed patterns of urbanization along the populous corridor.

New York Power Authority is preparing to build state-owned clean energy projects for the first time — but advocates want more transparency.