- Republicans Propose Nationwide Offshore Wind Ban, Citing Unsubstantiated Links to Whale Deaths. The NOAA has said there’s no evidence suggesting that wind energy projects are harming marine life. Evidence so far overwhelmingly points to increased ship traffic and entanglements with fishing gear. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24032023/republicans-propose-nationwide-offshore-wind-ban-citing-unsubstantiated-links-to-whale-deaths/ 249 comments energy
- A New, Massive Plastics Plant in Southwest Pennsylvania Barely Registers Among Voters - Inside Climate News https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05112022/plastics-plant-pennsylvania-2022-midterms/ 2 comments environment
- Experts Debunk Viral Post Claiming 1,100 Scientists Say ‘There’s No Climate Emergency’ https://insideclimatenews.org/todaysclimate/experts-debunk-viral-post-claiming-1100-scientists-say-theres-no-climate-emergency/ 5 comments climate
- Texas Officials Blame Renewables for Heatwave Blackout Risk. Experts Say That’s Misleading https://insideclimatenews.org/todaysclimate/texas-officials-blame-renewables-for-heatwave-blackout-risk-experts-say-thats-misleading/ 294 comments environment
- Natural Gas Samples Taken from Boston-Area Homes Contained Numerous Toxic Compounds, a New Harvard Study Finds | Almost all of them contained low levels of benzene, a carcinogen. Additional studies are underway to see if homeowners are exposed to this and other toxins when cooking with gas. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28062022/natural-gas-stove-boston-toxic/ 11 comments science
- ‘Doomism’ or Reality? Divided Over Its Message, the Climate Movement Seeks Balance https://insideclimatenews.org/todaysclimate/doomism-or-reality-divided-over-its-message-the-climate-movement-seeks-balance/ 16 comments climate
- In a Bid to Save Its Coal Industry, Wyoming Has Become a Test Case for Carbon Capture, but Utilities are Balking at the Pricetag. Governments and utilities have spent years and billions of dollars trying to make the model work, and “it basically didn’t.” “The economics just don’t make sense." https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29052022/coal-carbon-capture-wyoming/ 58 comments energy
- UN says humanity has altered 70 percent of the Earth’s land, putting the planet on a ‘crisis footing’ https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27042022/agriculture-land-report/ 856 comments science
- Ecuador’s High Court Rules That Wild Animals Have Legal Rights https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29032022/ecuadors-high-court-rules-that-wild-animals-have-legal-rights/ 173 comments environment
- Oil and Gas Companies ‘Flare’ or ‘Vent’ Excess Natural Gas. It’s Like Burning Money—and it’s Bad for the Environment | A valuable resource is squandered. Experts blame weak regulations, ineffective tracking and a lack of economic incentives to capture and sell the gas. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25022022/flaring-venting-natural-gas-economics/ 7 comments climate
- How the Ukraine Conflict Looms as a Turning Point in Russia’s Uneasy Energy Relationship with the European Union | Putin's threats galvanize sentiment in Europe to end dependence on Russian natural gas, with the Nord Stream 2 pipeline the first potential sacrifice. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12022022/how-the-ukraine-conflict-looms-as-a-turning-point-in-russias-uneasy-energy-relationship-with-the-european-union-%ef%bf%bc/ 5 comments climate
- A Florida Chemical Plant Has Fallen Behind in Its Pledge to Cut Emissions of a Potent Greenhouse Gas | Documents show that Ascend Performance Materials, the nation’s largest emitter of nitrous oxide, is still emitting significant amounts of the climate super-pollutant. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18022022/florida-ascend-plant-super-pollutants/ 6 comments climate
- ConocoPhillips’ Plan for Extracting Half-a-Billion Barrels of Crude in Alaska’s Fragile Arctic Presents a Defining Moment for Joe Biden https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23012022/conocophillips-willow-alaska-biden/ 29 comments environment
- In the Amazon, the World’s Largest Reservoir of Biodiversity, Two-Thirds of Species Have Lost Habitat to Fire and Deforestation - Inside Climate News https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01092021/amazon-rainforest-biodiversity-deforestation-fires/ 65 comments worldnews
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Food Production are Far Greater Than Previous Estimates Suggest - A new study finds that if all parts of the food system are included, food production is responsible for as much as 40 percent of global emissions. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10062021/agriculture-greenhouse-gas-emissions-food-production-climate-change-paris-agreement/?amp%3B_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9CiJSB_AflSfDAKCDy_l2RaBgx141HO1FnrkUuoW-5zT8Ow3LDyjM-kKhUQZ12yV08yKKnxpghxXveXaTNV76Zmdkvzg&%3B_hsmi=133116659&%3Butm_content=133116659&%3Butm_medium=email&%3Butm_source=hs_email 12 comments climate
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Food Production are Far Greater Than Previous Estimates Suggest - A new study finds that if all parts of the food system are included, food production is responsible for as much as 40 percent of global emissions. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10062021/agriculture-greenhouse-gas-emissions-food-production-climate-change-paris-agreement/?amp%3B_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9CiJSB_AflSfDAKCDy_l2RaBgx141HO1FnrkUuoW-5zT8Ow3LDyjM-kKhUQZ12yV08yKKnxpghxXveXaTNV76Zmdkvzg&%3B_hsmi=133116659&%3Butm_content=133116659&%3Butm_medium=email&%3Butm_source=hs_email 9 comments environment
- North Dakota, Using Taxpayer Funds, Bailed Out Oil and Gas Companies by Plugging Abandoned Wells https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23052021/north-dakota-orphaned-abandoned-oil-gas-wells-methane-emissions/ 206 comments technology
- Not Waiting for Public Comment, Trump Administration Schedules Lease Sale for Arctic Wildlife Refuge https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03122020/arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-trump-administration-oil-lease-sale 14 comments politics
- The Oil Market May Have Tanked, but Companies Are Still Giving Plenty to Keep Republicans in Office https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27102020/oil-campaign-contributions-republicans-trump?utm_campaign=hot%20news&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=98549950&_hsenc=p2anqtz-9f4dm3rbvldp_byc9soaejvjan41gn1rdaj_zh2dsjcqnpkabc9oyuea3fbqgstltjbo-cp_0pqifh6jyz8-ldyr8d7w&utm_content=98549950&utm_source=hs_email 7 comments politics
- Senate 2020: In Mississippi, a Surprisingly Close Race For a Trump-Tied Promoter of Fossil Fuels https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19102020/mississippi-senate-race-election-2020-cindy-hyde-smith-mike-espy 3 comments politics
- Inside Clean Energy: Biden’s Climate Plan Shows Net Zero is Now Mainstream https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12082020/inside-clean-energy-joe-biden-renewable-energy 46 comments energy
- Biden Names Ocasio-Cortez, Kerry to Lead His Climate Task Force, Bridging Democrats’ Divide https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13052020/biden-ocasio-cortez-kerry-climate-task-force?utm_campaign=hot%20news&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=87989095&_hsenc=p2anqtz-_8w9lmx-zum23qjcsrrjekfwygzyk21fg_yffh_nb8u18gr2jxhyigmzhjb9gvlv0z2ux1khfctyixorsq68a8ogtffq&_hsmi=87989095 3374 comments politics
- A California Utility Announces 770 Megawatts of Battery Storage. That’s a Lot. - more than all of the battery storage projects commissioned in the country last year and enough to power a small city. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06052020/inside-clean-energy-california-battery-storage-wind-solar 18 comments energy
- Inside Clean Energy: 6 Things Michael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ Gets Wrong https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29042020/inside-clean-energy-michael-moore-planet-of-the-humans-review 41 comments climate
- A Record Number of Scientists Are Running for Congress, and They Get Climate Change https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23102018/scientist-congress-house-race-candidate-kopser-casten-luria-climate-change-trump-agenda 18 comments politics
- Senate Confirms BP Oil Spill Lawyer, Climate Policy Foe as Government's Top Environment Attorney https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11102018/oil-spill-lawyer-jeffrey-bossert-clark-confirmed-top-environment-attorney-climate-change-policy-chamber-commerce 14 comments politics
- Destructive Flood Risk in U.S. West Could Triple if Climate Change Left Unchecked https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06082018/global-warming-climate-change-floods-california-oroville-dam-scientists 3 comments science
- 2017 One of Hottest Years on Record, and Without El Niño | Nine of the 10 warmest years on modern record have been since 2005 https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18012018/2017-third-hottest-year-record-wildfires-hurricanes-noaa-nasa-annual-climate-change-report 4 comments worldnews
- How Federal Giveaways to Big Coal Leave Ranchers and Taxpayers Out in the Cold https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29122017/wyoming-powder-river-basin-coal-subsidies-climate-change-oil-gas-trump 4 comments politics
- As Solar and Wind Prices Fall, Coal’s Future is Fading Fast, BNEF Says | Coal’s prices will soon be so uncompetitive that coal-fired power will drop 51 percent by 2040, according to the latest electricity sector forecast. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15062017/solar-energy-wind-prices-fall-coal-future-fading-bnef-renewable-forecast?amp 10 comments technology
- Massive permafrost thaw documented in Canada, portends huge carbon release https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27022017/global-warming-permafrost-study-melt-canada-siberia 63 comments worldnews
- Massive Permafrost Thaw Documented in Canada, Portends Huge Carbon Release: Study shows 52,000 square miles in rapid decline, with sediment and carbon threatening the surrounding environment and potentially accelerating global warming. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27022017/global-warming-permafrost-study-melt-canada-siberia?utm_source=inside+climate+news&utm_campaign=64c1f609c4-insideclimate_news12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-64c1f609c4-326460285 217 comments worldnews
- Toxic Algae May Thrive as Climate and Oceans Warm, Study Says | As oceans soak up the Earth's excess heat, algae blooms that can have fatal implications to humans are becoming far more common, researchers show. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22012017/climate-change-toxic-algae-oceans-west-coast-seafood 3 comments science
- Hillary Clinton finally campaigns on climate change, with Al Gore at her side https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11102016/hillary-clinton-finally-climate-change-al-gore-florida-donald-trump 7 comments politics
- Fossil Fuel Production Emits More Methane Than Previously Thought, NOAA Says | The exhaustive global study found emissions from oil, gas and coal sites are between 20 and 60 percent higher than many earlier estimates. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11102016/noaa-study-says-fossil-fuel-industrys-contribution-global-methane-problem-more-thought 27 comments science
- Without Emissions Cuts, Summer Heat Will Get Even Deadlier | 90 percent chance that every summer will be at least as warm as the hottest to date across large parts of North and South America, Central Europe, Asia and Africa. http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20062016/without-emissions-cuts-summer-extreme-heat-waves-deadlier 10 comments science
- Methane May Leak From 40% of Gas Wells in Parts of Pennsylvania http://insideclimatenews.org/carbon-copy/20140710/methane-may-leak-40-gas-wells-parts-pennsylvania 3 comments science
- China's Plan to Clean Up Air in Cities Will Doom the Climate, Scientists Say http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20140213/chinas-plan-clean-air-cities-will-doom-climate-scientists-say 8 comments worldnews
- U.S. Keystone Report Relied Heavily on Alberta Govt-Funded Research | Keystone would fall between 1.3 million tons of carbon dioxide and 27.4 million tons.The 1.3 million figure came from Jacobs; the 27.4 million figure from NETL. A spokesman for Jacobs did not return a call. http://insideclimatenews.org/content/us-keystone-report-relied-heavily-alberta-govt-funded-research 3 comments politics
- With Drought Season Off to a Bad Start, Scientists Forecast Another Bleak Year Current climate-induced drought is slipping into a trend that scientists say resembles some of the worst droughts in U.S. history, like the Dust Bowl. http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130328/drought-season-bad-start-scientists-forecast-another-bleak-year 822 comments science