Nevada had one of the fastest-growing rooftop solar industries in the country — until state regulators changed the rules governing it, and the industry all but collapsed within months. From Boom to Bust in a Single Ruling The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada voted unanimously in December to eliminate one-for-one net metering, the system that…
As the Dakota Access Pipeline fight in North Dakota reaches a lull, a new pipeline battle is taking shape 1,500 miles away in the swamps of southern Louisiana — and opponents there are borrowing directly from the playbook that made Standing Rock a national story. A Map Built From a Year of Accidents Ahead of…
A federal appeals court has ruled that regulators cannot keep exempting the Indian Point nuclear plant from fire safety rules behind closed doors — a decision that could force the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to open a practice it has used at dozens of plants nationwide to public scrutiny for the first time. A Safety Standard…
Across much of Sub-Saharan Africa, the biggest threat to a farmer’s harvest often isn’t drought, pests, or a failed crop — it’s what happens after the harvest is already in. Smallholder farmers across the continent lose more than 30 percent of their fresh fruits and vegetables to spoilage before they ever reach a buyer, according…
Just weeks after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government approved two major tar sands pipeline projects, the Indigenous-led alliance formed specifically to block them says the approvals change nothing — the pipelines, they insist, simply will not be built. A Treaty Built for This Exact Moment The Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion was signed…
For a few days in mid-July, something happened on Greenland that hadn’t been recorded in more than three decades of satellite observation: nearly the entire ice sheet — from its thin coastal edges to its two-mile-thick interior — began melting at its surface, all at once. A Scientist Who Didn’t Believe His Own Data The…
Two of the officials most directly implicated in poisoning an entire city’s water supply sat before Congress this week, and neither one accepted responsibility for it. “I Don’t Think Anyone at EPA Did Anything Wrong” Susan Hedman, who resigned in January as the EPA’s Region 5 administrator overseeing Michigan, told the House Oversight and Government…
Arctic sea ice has shrunk to its smallest extent ever recorded by satellite this year, scientists announced this week, shattering the previous record by a margin so large it has surprised even researchers who have spent decades watching the ice cap steadily decline. A Record Broken by an Unusually Wide Margin Satellite data analyzed by…
What began in April with a handful of Standing Rock Sioux tribal members camped on a small piece of land has grown into one of the largest Indigenous-led demonstrations in decades — and with no resolution to the underlying dispute in sight, the encampments along the Missouri River watershed show no sign of winding down….
Hundreds gathered in Charleston, West Virginia this weekend to celebrate the life of Larry Gibson, the diminutive but relentless activist who spent decades single-handedly refusing to let coal companies erase the mountain his family had called home for more than two centuries. A Life Defined by One Mountain Gibson died of a heart attack on…