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Why are politicians from both parties targeting measures that have saved Americans trillions of dollars?
The U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is facing questions about its effectiveness amid a broader U.N. budget crisis.
A legacy of mining means that toxic metals could be carried along plumes of smoke.
A unanimous decision will allow a controversial Utah oil project to go forward, while easing climate review standards for future major energy projects.
“Our goal is to remind negotiators that behind every policy decision are real people and real lives at risk.”
Disasters are big business. These charts show just how big.
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.
The rules would hold pollution magnets like warehouses, ports and railyards accountable for the trucks and ships they attract.
Carbon isn’t an enemy to “combat” or “tackle,” the environmentalist Paul Hawken writes, but the animating force of life.
