Reading the News: Highway Widenings Are Undermining Climate Goals
NRDC
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
National, state and local news outlets have picked up on a key theme: reaching our ambitious climate goals requires rethinking how we invest in transportation.
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More Climate News You Don’t Often Hear
Energy & the Law
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Its time again to report on climate-related news from a perspective other than the alarmists. First, have you wondered why all the news your Google search finds seems to spell climate D-O-O-M? How reliable are climate-change forecasts? Bjorn Lomborg shows us that there’s plenty of good news about the environment.
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In Australia, Murdoch-Owned News Outlets Vow to Back Away From Climate Denial
Yale E360
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Though long hostile toward climate science, News Corp Australia is planning an editorial campaign calling for a zero-carbon economy, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. The campaign will be supported by Sky News and will run in metropolitan tabloids. Read more on E360 ?.
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2023 in Climate News
Inside Climate News
DECEMBER 27, 2023
The push and pull of progress and catastrophe made 2023 one of the most discordant—and consequential—years for the world’s climate. By ICN Staff In 2023, clean energy progress and the horrors of a radically warming climate fought almost to a draw.
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The Most Important Climate Stories of 2023 Aren't All Bad News
Scientific American
DECEMBER 27, 2023
In 2023 climate news was a mixed bag: we saw unrelenting heat but also glimmers of hope of progress toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions
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Inside Climate News introduces Climate 101 FAQ
Environmental News Bits
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Inside Climate News has built a database of answers to climate questions commonly asked by their readers. Users can search by keyword or browse by topic and submit questions of their own. Read more →
Staff News: Emma Shumway Joins the Sabin Center as Climate Justice Fellow
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Today, Emma Shumway joins the Sabin Center as a Climate Justice Fellow. Her work focuses on the environmental justice and equity implications of developments in climate change law and policy at the national, state, and local levels. Emma graduated from Columbia Law School in 2023, where she was a Ruth Bader Ginsburg Scholar.
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Staff News: Dan Metzger Joins the Sabin Center as a Smart Surfaces Fellow for the Cities Climate Law Initiative
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Dan has joined the Sabin Center as a Smart Surfaces Fellow, as part of our Cities Climate Law Initiative. Prior to that role Dan was a Climate Law Fellow at the Sabin Center focused on international climate change litigation, climate risks and opportunities in the reinsurance industry, and the law and science of climate change attribution.
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Inside Climate News: Abandoned Conventional Oil/Natural Gas Wells Emit Carcinogens, Other Harmful Pollutants In PA, Study Shows
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 6, 2023
On June 6, Inside Climate News reported a study in the journal ACS Omega , researchers have reported the discovery of harmful volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, leaking from 48 conventional abandoned wells in Western Pennsylvania.
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Inside Climate News: DEP Took 9 Days To Inspect Natural Gas Liquids Plant That Caught Fire On Christmas Day In Washington County
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
On February 11, Jon Hurdle of Inside Climate News reported the Department of Environmental Protection took nine days to inspect the Energy Transfer Revolution Cryogenic Natural Gas Processing Plant in Washington County after an explosion and fire on Christmas Day. Click Here to read the entire Inside Climate News story.
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Nixon Advisers’ Climate Research Plan: Another Lost Chance on the Road to Crisis
Inside Climate News
APRIL 26, 2024
By Marianne Lavelle In 1971, President Richard Nixon’s science advisers proposed a multimillion dollar climate change research project with benefits they said were too “immense” to be quantified, since they involved “ensuring man’s survival,” according to a White House document newly obtained by the nonprofit National Security Archive and shared exclusively (..)
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California is Suing Big Oil Thanks to Journalism
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
By “party” I mean the increasingly ambitious climate liability litigation against Big Oil. Gavin Newsom answered a question by the New York Times’ David Gelles, who leads the Climate Forward newsletter. It’s not unusual for legal complaints to cite news stories in the fine-print citations. I didn’t know.” That’s how Gov.
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Governor Gavin Newsom announces he will sign landmark climate disclosure bills SB 253 and SB 261!
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
Breaking news! Once enacted by the Governor, these two bills will set a new national standard for greenhouse gas emissions reporting and for disclosure of climate-related financial risks consistent with the framework established by the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD).
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COP26 news: Daily updates from the global climate summit in Glasgow
New Scientist
OCTOBER 29, 2021
The latest news from the COP26 climate summit taking place in Glasgow, UK.
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PA Natural Heritage Program News Spotlights Climate Change Vulnerability In Plants; Allegheny National Forest Ecological Surveys; Zombie Moths; Much More!
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
The latest issue of Wild Heritage News from the PA Natural Heritage Program features articles on-- -- Climate Change Vulnerability Of Plants In PA -- Tracking Changes In Pennsylvania’s Peatlands -- Invertebrate Discoveries -- A Thousand Invertebrates Get Some Love For State Wildlife Action Plan -- Limestone Cliff Updates -- Specimen Data Sharing Improvement (..)
Inside Climate News: Gov. Shapiro Provides Fresh Support To Key Changes Recommended In 2020 Grand Jury Report To Tighten Regulation Of The Natural Gas Drilling Industry To Better Protect Public Health, Environment
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 16, 2023
On April 26 Inside Climate News published a comprehensive article by Stacey Burling on issues surrounding the disposal of 2.6 Inside Climate News quoted Manuel Bonder, a spokesman for Gov. More On Article The Inside Climate News article is a comprehensive report on what happens to the 2.6 27 Released 1.1
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The Allegheny Front/Environmental Health News: Pollution’s Mental Toll: How Air, Water And Climate Pollution Shape Our Mental Health
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
The Allegheny Front and Environmental Health News investigated the mental health impacts of air and water pollution and climate change in western Pennsylvania. Reporting also uncovered the growing gap in mental health care as more people are traumatized by worsening climate change. -- Part 1: Feeling anxious about climate change?
‘Nobody Really Knows What You’re Supposed to Do’: Leaking, Abandoned Wells Wreak Havoc in West Texas
Inside Climate News
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News and Carlos Nogueras, Texas Tribune IMPERIAL, Texas—Mounds of dirt towered over Bill Wight, who stared helplessly at the piles that had once been pasture for his cattle. A recent well blow-out in West Texas highlights the challenges of finding and plugging thousands of wells across the state.
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The IPCC Should Just Say 1.5 C is Dead
Legal Planet
MARCH 22, 2023
IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee called the report ” a fundamental policy document for shaping climate action in the remainder of this pivotal decade.” limit is achievable but it will take a quantum leap in climate action.” You know what makes news? You know what doesn’t make news? Is that the right outlook?
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Great Lakes News Collaborative Examines Water’s True Cost
Circle of Blue
APRIL 27, 2022
It means that vulnerable systems are even more at risk in a changing climate. As the nation prepares to pour hundreds of billions of federal dollars into rescuing water systems, the Great Lakes News Collaborative investigates the true cost of water in Michigan. Great Lakes News Collaborative Examines Water’s True Cost.
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Zambians Feel the Personal Consequences of Climate Change—and Dream of a Sustainable Future
Inside Climate News
APRIL 7, 2024
But it hasn’t gotten enough this year, and likely won’t in the future, a victim of a climate crisis it didn’t cause. By Georgina Gustin CHONGWE, Zambia—Benson Chipungu sits in a leather armchair and reaches for the remote to switch off the news. Pieces of fabric hang over the windows, darkening the room against the heat.
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Fresh, May 2, 2023: Mississippi River Flooding Reaches Historic Levels Along Illinois-Iowa Border
Circle of Blue
MAY 2, 2023
May 2, 2023 Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. We work together to produce news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water.
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Will Russia’s Forests Be an Asset or an Obstacle in Climate Fight?
Yale E360
JULY 15, 2021
New research indicating Russia’s vast forests store more carbon than previously estimated would seem like good news. But scientists are concerned Russia will count this carbon uptake as an offset in its climate commitments, which would allow its emissions to continue unchecked. Read more on E360 ?.
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STAFF NEWS: JACOB ELKIN JOINS THE SABIN CENTER AS NEW CLIMATE LAW FELLOW & MARIA ANTONIA TIGRE AS GLOBAL CLIMATE LITIGATION FELLOW
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
This month , Jacob Elkin joins the Sabin Center as the 2021-2022 Climate Law Fellow. He holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago. Prior to the Sabin Center, she was a senior attorney at the Environment Program of the Cyrus R.
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Q&A: A Reporter Joins Scientists as They Work to Stop the Killing of Cougars
Inside Climate News
OCTOBER 7, 2023
Inside Climate News’ Liza Gross had her own thrilling brush with a cougar kitten in a den discovered deep in the forest on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state.
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FRESH, October 4, 2022: Carbon Dioxide Storage and Transport Emerges as Political Flashpoint
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. Climate change could hike the cost of maintaining Ontario ’s transportation infrastructure by over $1.5 Fresh from the Great Lakes News Collaborative. In the News.
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Is California Overstating the Climate Benefit of Dairy Manure Methane Digesters?
Inside Climate News
DECEMBER 30, 2023
CO2 released by burning biogas from cow manure is counted as an emission reduction, rather than a climate pollutant, and multiple state programs are taking credit for the cuts that some see as phantoms.
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The Stream, May 17, 2023: Morocco Boosts Funding, Ambitions for 30-Year Water Plan
Circle of Blue
MAY 17, 2023
In south and central Florida , where decades of Everglades restoration projects are already underway, climate change is forcing engineers to pivot. Extreme rains and a warmer climate are uprooting fishing and farming in Trinidad and Tobago. 4 Number of Category 5 storms experienced so far in 2023, Yale Climate Connections reports.
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New study suggests the Atlantic overturning circulation AMOC “is on tipping course”
Real Climate
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
The paper results from a major computational effort, based on running a state-of-the-art climate model (the CESM model with horizontal resolution 1° for the ocean/sea ice and 2° for the atmosphere/land component) for 4,400 model years. In addition they show major shifts in tropical rainfall belts.
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Big Oil’s Denial and Delay Is Endangering Our Future
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 16, 2023
In a few days, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release its latest synthesis report that provides a comprehensive assessment of the current state of scientific knowledge on climate change, including its causes, impacts, and potential solutions. Approaching 1.5
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After 13 Years, No End in Sight for Caribbean Sargassum Invasion
Inside Climate News
APRIL 18, 2024
But local governments have so far failed to coordinate an international response to address the problem, which scientists believe is triggered by global pollution, the climate crisis and a shortage of funds to mitigate it.
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What’s Up With Water—September 13, 2022
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers what to expect at COP27, new research on the link between water and the fossil fuel industry in Texas, and an update on Jackson, Mississippi’s failing water system. Welcome to “What’s Up With Water” – your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue.
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COP26 news: US-China climate pact is important but largely symbolic
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
Two huge emitters agreed to work together to limit global warming, but the agreement is largely symbolic, as is an alliance to stop extracting oil and gas which hasn't been signed by the biggest oil and gas producers
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What High Heat in the Classroom Is Doing to Millions of American Children
Inside Climate News
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023
With too many schools ill-prepared for the impacts of climate change, research shows that excessive temperatures affect students’ ability to concentrate, perform and think clearly.
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Creating Environmental Action by Changing our Message
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
The urgency of implementing change now For decades, scientists have been warning about the upcoming dangers of climate change; however, all we have to do today is look around to see the current impacts. Over the next five years, the temperatures will continue to rise , and we will violate the original goals set in the Paris Climate Accords.
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Do airline climate offsets really work? Here’s the good news, and the bad.
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 7, 2022
Read the full story in the New York Times. Carbon credits could eventually play an important role in fighting climate change, but right now a few dollars’ worth won’t change much.
Sri Lanka Pledges No New Coal, Makes Push Into Rooftop Solar
Yale E360
AUGUST 17, 2021
In its latest climate plan, Sri Lanka is ruling out new coal power and aiming to reach 70 percent clean electricity by 2030, an important milestone on its way to reaching its goal of a carbon-neutral electricity generation system by 2050, Climate Home News reported. Read more on E360 ?.
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We Crossed 1.5 C. Did We Breach the Paris Agreement?
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
If you’re not a climate scientist—and maybe even if you are—reading news headlines this month has been confounding and a little scary. “In Climate Threshold ,” was the version at Forbes. If that weren’t enough, new research on sea sponges made for a second wave of stories that declared the “The World Blew Past 1.5
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Don’t Believe the Lies: Five Facts to Consider as the UN’s COP27 Comes to a Close
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
The 27 th Conference of the Parties (COP27), this year’s UN climate conference, is in its final days. Seeing lies pop up on Twitter and even in news articles is frustrating enough for those of us who are here in person. Seeing lies pop up on Twitter and even in news articles is frustrating enough for those of us who are here in person.
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FRESH, July 26, 2022: Citizens Divided Over Wind Energy in Lake Erie
Circle of Blue
JULY 26, 2022
Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. Climate change is expected to intensify harmful algal blooms, as increased rainfall in the Midwest washes more nutrients into the Great Lakes. In the News.
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FRESH, August 9, 2022: Unmonitored Ag May Account for Majority of Lake Erie Manure Pollution
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 9, 2022
Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. Living near a nuclear plant has caused long-term stress in Prairie Island Indian Community, reports MPR News. Fresh from the Great Lakes News Collaborative.
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Facing Up to Reality
Legal Planet
JUNE 21, 2021
is staring climate change in the face. This is bad, but it’s not the worst news. The worst news is that the situation is only going to get worse as climate change progresses. If we don’t cut emissions quickly and dramatically, climate change will accelerate, putting droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires into overdrive.
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How the Dire Health Implications of Climate Change Are Unfolding Globally
Inside Climate News
JANUARY 6, 2024
“The climate crisis is a health crisis.”
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Duke Energy Is Leaking a Potent Climate-Warming Gas at More Than Five Times the Rate of Other Utilities
Inside Climate News
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
The gas, sulfur hexafluoride, is one of the most potent and long-lasting climate pollutants—known collectively as “the immortals”—because they remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years. By Phil McKenna This article was published in partnership with NBC News.
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