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Puerto Ricans are powering their own rooftop solar boom

Residents and shop owners are installing solar-plus-battery systems in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Will the government get on board?

Maria Gallucci Climate & Energy June 11, 2022

A tank of produced water used for farming. For decades, Kern County has used oil field wastewater, known as

A California water board assured the public that oil wastewater is safe for irrigation. Experts say evidence is flimsy.

Studies in Kern County, performed by oil industry consultants, cannot answer fundamental safety questions about irrigating crops with “produced water,” the board’s own panel of experts conceded.

Liza Gross Accountability April 9, 2022

Local climate initiatives FTW

Two cities approved taxes to fund climate plans and another voted for 100% renewable electricity.

Emily Pontecorvo November 6, 2020

Collage: Pieces of a broken smartphone put together with pieces of a new smartphone

Electronic waste will go down because of COVID, but for all the wrong reasons

"It is a reduction, though it is not good for the world."

Maddie Stone Technology June 15, 2021

From Alaska to California, the climate is off-kilter in the West

20 pieces of evidence that the climate crisis is here — and wreaking havoc.

Jonathan Thompson, High Country News Science December 4, 2020

Can ‘the people’ solve climate change? France decided to find out.

France asked 150 ordinary people to make climate policy. They ended up clashing with President Macron.

Shannon Osaka International November 15, 2021

The Bluestone Coke plant in Birmingham, Alabama.

The tragedy of North Birmingham

Industrial plants in Birmingham, Alabama, have polluted the air and land in its historic Black communities for over a century. In an epicenter of environmental injustice, officials continue to fail to right the wrongs plaguing the city’s north side.

Max Blau, ProPublica Accountability September 17, 2022