Posts by Andy Pugh

California leads the U.S. in the push to swap out diesel-fueled trucks for electric — and in the buildout of the electric truck stops and depots those new trucks will depend on. Earlier this month, trucking-as-a-service startup WattEV announced its latest contribution to the electrification of California’s highways…

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Conventional wisdom has long been that it’s better for the planet to burn fossil gas for electricity than it is to burn coal. But when it comes to liquefied natural gas — the transportable form of…

Located in northern Chile, one of the deepest open-pit mines in the world has transitioned underground to extract valuable metals.

“Hope is the last to die. We are apprehensive about what happened, but we will fight.” These are the words of Indigenous leader Jose Antônio Parava Ramos, a member of the Chiquitano people whose territory sits on the border of Bolivia and Brazil. He was sharing his perspective on a revived proposal to restrict the […]

Mexico’s government recently announced the creation of 20 new protected areas across 12 states and two coastal areas in the country, covering roughly 2.3 million hectares (5.7 million acres). This follows a series of budget cuts to the nation’s environmental agencies. Officials introduced four new national parks, four “flora and fauna protection areas,” seven sanctuaries, […]

The Caribbean spiny lobster is a coveted delicacy. But its flourishing trade comes at the expense of the Indigenous Miskito community living along the Atlantic coast of Honduras, according to an investigation published in December by nonprofit news outlet Civil Eats. The prized lobster, Panulirus argus, which Honduras exports predominantly to the U.S., was a […]

Canada’s tar sands have gained infamy for being one of the world’s most polluting sources of oil, thanks to the large amounts of energy and water use required for their extraction. A new study says the operations are also emitting far higher levels of a range of air pollutants than previously known, with implications for […]

With reduced support in Brazil’s Congress following the 2022 elections, the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been unable to prevent the passage of bills dismantling environmental safeguards in favor of agribusiness interests.

JAKARTA — Land conflicts nearly doubled under the administration of Indonesia’s current president, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, compared with his predecessor, driven largely by his prioritization of investors and infrastructure projects over local communities and the environment, a new report shows. Between 2015 and 2023, there were 2,939 land conflicts identified by the Consortium for Agrarian […]

Dean Naujoks was relieved when, earlier this month, the U.S. Naval Support Facility in Dahlgren, Virginia, agreed to get a pollution discharge permit for its weapons testing on the Maryland side of the Potomac River. The Navy has been testing weapons there since World War I.  It took almost seven years of legwork and a […]