E.P.A. Tells Dozens of States to Clean Up Their Smokestacks
The Biden administration is strengthening the ‘Good Neighbor’ rule, to cut pollution from power plants and factories in the West and Midwest that wafts east. WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Wednesday finalized a rule forcing factories and power plants…
Are Butterflies Wildlife? Depends Where You Live in the U.S.
A legal quirk leaves officials in at least a dozen states with little or no authority to protect insects. That’s a growing problem for humans. March 4, 2023 It’s tough being an insect. They get swatted, stomped and sprayed without…
Climate change can’t be brushed aside – Newspaper – DAWN.COM – DAWN.com
GLOBAL warming is a widely discussed and highly politicised issue of the modern era. The change in global temperatures has wrecked havoc and claimed thousands of lives across the globe. However, it is amazing, almost unbelievable, that there is still…
COP27 was a win for the loss and damage cause; here is what transpired and the road ahead
Sharm El-Sheikh has established a loss and damage fund; but there is no guarantee that the fund that takes shape eventually will even remotely resemble what was originally demanded
COP27: Switzerland wants âmajor emittersâ and big developing economies to do more on mitigation
Talks on the Mitigation Work Programme November 8 brought back memories of post-Paris mitigation politics, where rich countries asked all to cut their emissions, while not doing their fair share of cuts
E.V. Bonanza Flows to Red States That Denounce Biden Climate Policies
Democrats pushed through climate change legislation this year that earmarked tens of billions of dollars to create a U.S. supply chain for electric vehicles. Republicans and the states they represent are poised to cash in on much of the political…
A Sneaky Form of Climate Obstruction Hurts Pension Funds
In several Republican-led states, the officials who oversee pension funds for millions of state workers are being told, or may soon be told, to ignore the financial risks associated with a warming world. There’s something distinctly anti-free market about policymakers…
Climate Change Is Ravaging the Colorado River. There’s a Model to Avert the Worst.
YAKIMA, Wash. — The water managers of the Yakima River basin in arid Central Washington know what it’s like to fight over water, just like their counterparts along the Colorado River are fighting now. They know what it’s like to…
The Way to Slow Climate Change Is as Close as Your City Hall or School Board
Three months after taking office as America’s 46th president, Joe Biden made a solemn pledge to the world: He declared that the United States, which is more responsible for the climate crisis than any other nation, would cut its greenhouse…
California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars
California regulators on Thursday will vote to put in place a sweeping plan to restrict and ultimately ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars, state officials said, a move that the state’s governor described as the beginning of the end for…
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