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Collage of drought, water tower, and dollar bill

Drought is quietly pushing American cities toward a fiscal cliff

Drought is set to pose a greater risk to the $4 trillion municipal bond market than floods, hurricanes, and wildfires combined.

Tik Root Cities October 27, 2025

Power transmission lines span toward San Antonio, Texas, the United States, on July 18, 2022.

Who’s afraid of a 300-mile transmission line that could help decarbonize the Southeast?

Louisiana lawmakers and local utilities.

Gautama Mehta Energy April 17, 2024

A map of the United States’ vulnerability to dangers such as fire, flooding, and pollution

How does climate change threaten your neighborhood? A new map has the details.

All 10 of the country’s most at-risk counties are in the South, according to the Climate Vulnerability Index, and half of them are in Louisiana.

Kate Yoder Extreme Weather October 2, 2023

A photo shows a billowing smokestack in the background of a small waterfront town

Installing heat pumps in factories could save $1.5 trillion and 77,000 lives

A new report finds that replacing conventional boilers with heat pumps could also avoid 33 million asthma attacks by 2050, thanks to improved air quality.

Matt Simon Energy August 14, 2025

Texas flag flies in front of flooded property

Texas lawmakers grill Kerr County officials as flood recovery plods on

Local officials emphasized the need for river gauges and real-time rainfall monitoring to better predict flash floods.

Naveena Sadasivam Extreme Weather August 1, 2025

Electric workers in a boom lift work on a transmission line with a snow-capped mountain in the background.

America’s grid isn’t ready for a renewable future. A new federal rule could change that.

The regulation requires grid operators to develop plans to build out the transmission needed to deliver on Biden’s climate agenda.

Syris Valentine Energy May 14, 2024

Louisiana already has 4 LNG terminals. It just added another.

The Trump administration fast-tracked the project approval, reversing a Biden directive.

Tristan Baurick Energy May 6, 2025

Several electric cars sit next to Tesla chargers in front of idyllic red cabins nestled below green mountains

Norway is all in on electric cars. What can the U.S. learn?

Norway’s crusade to eliminate gasoline powered cars was years in the making. Can that achievement be replicated?

Rod McCullom, Undark Transportation June 15, 2025

How reducing the US military budget would also reduce emissions

New research shows that even with modest reductions in military funding, the United States would keep a whole lot of carbon out of the atmosphere.

Matt Simon Climate July 16, 2025

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