Politics

By almost any measure, Kara Choquette’s hometown of Kearney, Nebraska, is windy, particularly where it meets Interstate 80. But a drive 450 miles west, and over 4,000 feet higher, leads to an even windier place: Carbon County, Wyoming.  In 2009, Choquette leaned into that wind, moving west and taking a job as communications director with […]

It was a key pledge in President Joe Biden’s effort to show renewed international leadership on climate change: The U.S. government, the largest purchaser of goods and services in the world, would require its contractors and suppliers to disclose their carbon emissions and climate risks.  The biggest contractors would need to set carbon reduction targets […]

In Luzerne County, in northeast Pennsylvania, the Nanticoke Creek is dry most of the time because unless there’s a major storm, any water that flows into it disappears into underground voids created by coal mines that operated there for decades until the 1960s. The creek has long been a target for restoration by Earth Conservancy, […]

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Dan Gearino, a staff writer at Inside Climate News based in Columbus, Ohio.  Voters in 2024 will not only choose who lives in the White House, but will also decide which party controls the Senate, with […]

The Biden administration just distributed $20 billion in IRA funding to loan to individuals and communities across the country.

Researchers at Brown University hope to turn climate action defeat into a win for state government transparency. Brown’s Climate and Development Lab this month unveiled HowDoTheyLobby.org, a new searchable online database of influence-peddling in state capitals. A first-of-its-kind tool, it allows users to dig into who’s pushing and who’s opposing legislation in 17 states. The […]

Steel towns will see some reductions in toxic pollution from new regulations — but not as much as they’d hoped.

Virginia is seeking millions of dollars in federal funds this month for state and local government programs to reduce pollution and greenhouse gases. The state outlined its most urgent emissions-reduction strategies in a Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in March and must file its funding request by Monday.  […]

Three Pacific nations signed treaties with the U.S. Then Congress changed the rules.

The state is spending big on adapting to sea level rise, but Republicans don’t want to name the cause.