The social justice protests sweeping the country have forced mainstream environmental groups to confront their largely white staffs, a history of tensions with people of color, and, in some cases, racist and anti-immigrant pasts.
Gov. Roy Cooper had barely finished talking about the need to make North Carolina a clean energy state when a group held up signs and started chanting, "Act, act, act."
A freshman moderate who worked on clean energy issues before Congress and campaigns on fighting climate change wants to inject nuance and his wonky expertise into the debate.
President Trump yesterday ordered his administration to accelerate permitting for major projects — sparking blowback from critics who say it will inflict damage on communities of color.
Global carbon dioxide emissions may have finally peaked because of the coronavirus. But halting the global temperature rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius is another matter.
President Trump this morning said the Green New Deal is one of the only things that can stop an economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Just as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was setting the stage for floor consideration of a sweeping conservation measure years in the making, there's a threat to its passage.
Thirty-four years ago, Ronnie Levin's research on lead in drinking water sounded the alarm for many Americans about risks lurking in their tap water. As the Trump administration propels forward a new rule, Levin is still fighting to make sure communities, especially the most vulnerable, have safe drinking water.
Hundreds of studies on nature-based solutions to extreme events show that "green infrastructure" is often cheaper and more effective than engineered projects like dams, levees and sea walls, according to a new analysis.
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