For decades, the military treated climate change as a threat. Now it’s backing away from plans to protect people and bases ...
Arizona’s lax water laws let corporate farms pump unlimited groundwater to grow alfalfa for cattle overseas, even as local ...
Climate activists and a few states are taking a new approach to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for planet-warming greenhouse gasses: Fees to help pay for climate-related damage caused by ...
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Concrete built much of the modern world. It paves highways, shelters millions and forms the foundations of countless buildings. But cement, the crucial powder that serves as the binder in concrete, ...
It began with a lobbyist’s pitch. Tennessee Rep. Rusty Grills says a lobbyist proposed a simple idea: repeal the state’s requirement for reflective roofs on many commercial buildings. In late March, ...
The week before Thanksgiving, employees of Cameron LNG handed out turkeys and fixings to residents in southwest Louisiana. Earlier in the month, Cheniere Energy, Cameron LNG, and Venture Global LNG ...
In south-central Wisconsin, near record warmth in January and two record-breaking summer heat waves have cross-country skiers nervous they won’t be getting much snow this winter — again. And it’s not ...
Leaving the tight-knit community his family had called home for five generations along the Louisiana coast was one of the hardest things Chris Brunet has had to do. But three years ago, he felt he had ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s $7 billion Solar For All Program faces an uncertain fate following last week’s rollout of executive orders from President Donald Trump putting a freeze on ...