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Lifting the Veil on Tens of Billions in Oil Company Payments to Governments
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22102024/oil-company-government-payment-disclosures/
Published: October 22, 2024 09:00
Tutu Alicante was studying in the United States when his sister, suffering from an ectopic pregnancy, was rushed to the hospital back home in Equatorial Guinea. It was 1996, a year after Mobil had discovered oil off the country’s coast. When she arrived at…
Millions Pour in to Reelect Texas Oil and Gas Regulator
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22102024/millions-pour-in-to-reelect-texas-oil-and-gas-regulator/
Published: October 22, 2024 08:55
The list of campaign contributions to incumbent oil and gas regulator Christi Craddick reads like a who’s who of Texas fossil fuel billionaires. There’s West Texas oilman Tim Dunn, Energy Transfer CEO Kelcy Warren and recently deceased Endeavor Energy…
Alabama Mine Expansion Could Test Biden Policy on Private Extraction of Publicly Owned Coal
Published: October 21, 2024 23:01
BERRY, Ala.—An Alabama mining company is taking final steps toward a major buildout of its operations in the central part of the state. The expansion, which is proposed to include the mining of federally owned coal, comes in the wake of a settlement over…
Advocates, Legislators Are Confident Maryland Law to Rectify Retail Energy Market Will Survive Industry’s Legal Challenge
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21102024/maryland-retail-energy-market-industry-legal-challenge/
Published: October 21, 2024 09:00
Laurel Peltier felt her blood boil as she scanned the news on her cell phone. She slid back in the chair, uncrossed her legs and put down her reading glasses. A stack of energy bills lay scattered next to a file she was supposed to review. After seven…
Pacific and Caribbean Island Nations Call for the First Universal Carbon Levy on International Shipping Emissions
Published: October 21, 2024 08:55
For remote island nations like Tuvalu, shipping services provide a critical lifeline to international markets, food and healthcare. But their dependence comes at a cost they want shipowners to help pay. The global shipping industry is responsible for 90…
The Futures of Right Whales and Lobstermen Are Entangled. Could High-Tech Gear Help Save Them Both?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20102024/lobster-traps-harm-right-whales/
Published: October 20, 2024 09:00
It was a blessedly calm day as Scott Landry’s team set out in their inflatable boat to scan the glistening waters of Great South Channel between Rhode Island and Massachusetts for an endangered whale affectionately known as Wart. They were on a mission to…
Chronic Health Problems Amplify Heat Risk in the Rio Grande Valley
Published: October 20, 2024 08:55
A collaboration between Inside Climate News and the San Antonio Express-News BROWNSVILLE—Something seemed amiss when police officer Oscar Lizarraga arrived at the Conquistador Apartments Maria Ester Singh hadn’t yet paid that month’s rent, and the…
Election Throws Uncertainty Onto Biden’s Signature Climate Law
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19102024/inflation-reduction-act-election/
Published: October 19, 2024 09:05
President Joe Biden’s signature climate change law passed Congress by the narrowest of margins, without a single Republican in favor. GOP leaders have attacked the bill and promised to repeal it. Yet despite the law’s hyper-partisan creation story, the…
In Inaugural Tribal Energy Summit, Carbon Capture, Critical Minerals and Sovereignty Take Center Stage
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19102024/inaugural-tribal-energy-summit/
Published: October 19, 2024 09:00
“Critical minerals are Indian minerals,” said Daniel Cardenas, a member of the Hammawi Band of the Pit River Tribe of California, at the Tribal Energy Summit held Thursday at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. “The energy transition must go through…
On the Wisconsin-Iowa Border, the Mississippi River Is Eroding Sacred Indigenous Mounds
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19102024/mississippi-river-eroding-sacred-indigenous-mounds/
Published: October 19, 2024 08:55
CLAYTON, Iowa—The Sny Magill Unit of Effigy Mounds National Monument is a hidden wonder. A dozen miles downstream from the park’s visitor center along the Mississippi River, the path starts with a turn you might miss if you’re not looking closely. Follow…
The Earth’s Colors Are Changing—and Climate Change Could Be Partially to Blame
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18102024/todays-climate-earth-changing-color/
Published: October 18, 2024 19:34
Earth is made up of a kaleidoscope of colors—from the lush greens of tropical forests to the glistening turquoise of coastal shores. But over the past few decades, many of the hues that people have come to expect in nature have been thrown out of whack or…
After Hurricane Helene, Therapists Dispense ‘Psychological First Aid’
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18102024/hurricane-helene-psychological-first-aid/
Published: October 18, 2024 09:00
Makayla and Maddux Jamerson slept through a 6:30 a.m. flash flood warning and woke to their three kids screaming that water was coming into the house. In less than an hour there was already more than a foot of water flooding their first-floor duplex…
Appalachian Hydrogen Hub Plan Struggles Amid Economic Worries, Study Says
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18102024/appalachian-hydrogen-hub-plan-struggles/
Published: October 18, 2024 08:55
Plans to build a hydrogen “hub” in western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia are under strain as a third of its projects have been scrapped and four development partners have left, according to a new report. Driving those changes at the Appalachian…
A Data Center Fight Touches on a Big Question: Who Assumes the Financial Risk for the AI Boom?
Published: October 17, 2024 13:00
Some of the largest companies in the world are fighting with an electric utility over how to allocate financial risk from the growth of data centers. The case before Ohio regulators helps to make real the scope—and the stakes—of forecasts that data centers…
Pollution From World’s Militaries in Spotlight at UN Summit
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17102024/world-military-pollution-un-summit/
Published: October 17, 2024 11:00
This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. In the winter of 2022, Lennard de Klerk was running a carbon-neutral ecolodge in a tiny…
Latest Dominion Energy Development Forecasts Raise Ire of Virginia Environmentalists
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17102024/virginia-dominion-energy-development-forecasts/
Published: October 17, 2024 09:00
Dominion Energy, Virginia’s monopoly utility, did little to escape scrutiny from the state’s environmental community earlier this week when it released its integrated resource plan, a document that underscored the company’s commitment to natural gas…
As Solar Booms in the California Desert, Locals Feel ‘Overburdened’
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16102024/california-desert-solar-development-burden/
Published: October 16, 2024 09:10
RIVERSIDE, Calif.—For four hours, Mark Carrington sat quietly with his neighbors at the front of his county’s supervisors’ late August board meeting, waiting for his chance to speak. They were there for the final agenda item: a vote from the county board…
Alabama Coal Plant Tops US Greenhouse Gas Polluter List for 9th Straight Year
Published: October 16, 2024 09:05
A coal-fired power plant in Alabama is again the nation’s top greenhouse gas emitter, according to new data released Tuesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. For the ninth consecutive year, Alabama Power’s James H. Miller Jr. Electric…
ReBuild NC Has a Deficit of Over $150 Million With 1,600 People Still Displaced by Hurricanes Matthew and Florence
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16102024/rebuild-nc-deficit-after-hurricanes-matthew-florence/
Published: October 16, 2024 09:00
Floodwaters barreled up the front steps of Shadina Toudle’s trailer in Kenly, North Carolina, and lapped near her legs. She had slept through the worst of Hurricane Matthew, a historic 2016 storm that had strafed much of southeastern North Carolina. But…
New Report Condemns Increasing Violence and Legal Retaliation Against Environmental Activists
Published: October 16, 2024 08:55
Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo was watching television in his living room in May when a group of motorcyclists pulled up outside the gates of his home in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the riders fired nine bullets into the house. Seven bullets struck his…
From Displacing Alligators to Stranding Manatees, How Hurricanes Disrupt Wildlife
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15102024/todays-climate-hurricanes-disrupt-wildlife/
Published: October 15, 2024 20:21
Hurricanes Milton and Helene killed dozens of people, destroyed full neighborhoods and left many without power or water. But humans aren’t the only ones affected by these devastating storms. Gale-force winds, storm surge and intense flooding disrupted…
Biobanking Corals: One Woman’s Mission to Save Coral Genetics in Turks and Caicos to Rebuild Reefs of the Future
Published: October 15, 2024 09:00
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos—On a recent Wednesday afternoon, a group of high school students studying marine science crowded inside a 540-square-foot office turned scientific lab set atop a police station at a popular marina. The students hovered over…
An Election for a Little-Known Agency Could Dictate the Future of Renewables in Arizona
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14102024/arizona-corporation-commission-election/
Published: October 14, 2024 09:00
PHOENIX—Approval of the construction of two gas power plants without public comment. Another’s expansion approved without an environmental review. New fees for homeowners with rooftop solar that the Arizona attorney general has called “discriminatory” and…
‘Legacy’ Forests. ‘Restoration’ Logging. The New Jargon of Conservation Is Awash in Ambiguity. And Politics
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14102024/new-conservation-jargon-awash-in-ambiguity-politics/
Published: October 14, 2024 08:55
In 2019, conservation activist and longtime Washington state resident Stephen Kropp did something he’d never done before: he explored a forest managed as state trust land by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. “It was this beautiful, old…