"What Would It Take to Bring Renewable, Reliable Power to Puerto Rico?"
"The island is struggling to build a more stable electrical grid. What’s taking so long?"
"The island is struggling to build a more stable electrical grid. What’s taking so long?"
"The Navajo Nation has approved emergency legislation meant to strengthen a tribal law that regulates the transportation of radioactive material across the largest Native American reservation in the U.S."
"On the day he would become homeless, Wesley Bryant was awoken by his wife, Alexis. “Get up,” she told him. “There’s a flood outside.”"
American Jews are heavily involved in climate action in both the political and civic realms. But current events in Israel and Gaza can make it hard for U.S. journalists to cover environmental stories important to Jews at home or abroad. Jewish freelancer Ethan Brown on differences and synergies between Israeli and American Jewish environmentalism and how to approach stories within each community.
If former President Donald Trump recaptures the White House this fall, it would likely bring back a radical deregulatory, climate change-oblivious, fossil fuel-intensive environmental policy. But could the fallout be even greater? The new Issue Backgrounder examines how the Project 2025 agenda of Trump’s allies takes aim, in particular, at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
"As president, Donald J. Trump slashed protections for clean air and water and weakened school nutrition standards."
"Gavin Newsom’s late session proposal to extend deadlines — by more than four years in one case — for oil companies to comply with a new law fizzled and died late this week."
"The nation’s largest dam removal project is nearly complete after a lengthy campaign by Native tribes to restore the river at the California-Oregon border."
"A $5 million prime-time ad campaign is aimed at climate policies the industry claims make life miserable for Californians."
"In an iconic corner of the Grand Canyon, a uranium mine may threaten a tribe’s sole water source"