Shapiro Advisors Endorse Emissions Curbs to Fight Climate Change but Don’t Embrace RGGI Membership

After meeting for months in secrecy, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s working group on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative on Friday endorsed participation in a “cap-and-invest” process to reduce utilities’ greenhouse gas emissions but stopped short of endorsing membership in RGGI. The group’s co-chairs said in a press release that they had “reached broad consensus” on […]

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Biden Creates the American Climate Corps, 90 Years After FDR Put 3 Million to Work in National Parks

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Producer Aynsley O’Neill with Trevor Dolan of Evergreen Action   AYNSLEY O’NEILL: In the throes of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps to put more than 3 million men to work. At state and national […]

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For Sanibel, the Recovery from Hurricane Ian Will Be Years in the Making

SANIBEL, Fla.—Few images of Hurricane Ian’s destruction in Florida a year ago this week were more indelible than those of the swamped causeway here, the only link between the mainland and barrier island where this small beach community is located. Ian’s high winds and storm surge flattened swaths of southwest Florida, where the hurricane came […]

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EPA Rolls Out Training Grants For Environmental Justice Communities

WASHINGTON—A year ago, when Adam Ortiz, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Mid-Atlantic administrator, met with Shawn Scott here in the predominantly Black Ivy City neighborhood, she asked him a question with more than a little urgency. “‘Adam, can you smell it?’” he remembered her asking him, referring to a chemical manufacturer next door to her home […]

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Why Maryland Is Struggling to Meet Its Own Aggressive Climate Goals

Climate and environmental activists are advocating an end to waste-to-energy trash incinerators and an accelerated transition to wind and solar energy as the Maryland Department of the Environment considers proposals for achieving the state’s ambitious climate targets ahead of next year’s legislative session. Maryland has committed to a 60 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions […]

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A Drop in Emissions, and a Jobs Bonanza? Critics Question Benefits of a Proposed Hydrogen Hub for the Appalachian Region

PITTSBURGH—As the federal government nears a decision on which of the nation’s proposed “hydrogen hubs” will share up to $8 billion in startup money, critics of the idea in the Appalachian region are asserting that the program would do little to curb greenhouse gas emissions or create jobs, while increasing electricity prices for consumers and […]

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