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Medical device warehouses can be a source of cancer-causing ethylene oxide emissions. Georgia is the only state doing anything about it.
Federal and state officials have sued the company behind the blast, but Roseland, Louisiana, residents say the case won’t bring relief to their town.
After a string of discouraging rulings for other cities, a court upheld NYC's efforts to decarbonize its buildings.
The city's climate goals include cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2035.
Farmers and fisherfolk across the world are shifting into nighttime work to escape perilous heat.
Activist investors want the company to trim its biggest source of emissions. Exxon sees that as a threat.
As federal incentives for home electrification disappear, an innovative state law lets utilities meet energy-efficiency mandates by getting people off gas.
"You really cannot address a problem that you can’t identify."
The bill, which just passed Congress, is a bailout for commodity growers and leaves small farmers — and U.S. consumers — out to dry.