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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from challenging California’s longstanding authority to set vehicle pollution stan tdadards stricter than federal requirements. The legal dispute stems from a decision announced in June by EPA administrat

PUYO, Ecuador—People fighting oil wells, mines and other threats to their homelands did not come to this Amazonian city to lobby politicians at an environmental conference hosted by governments. They built the conference themselves.  The 12th Pan-Amazonian Social Forum, known as

KERMAN, Calif.—One hundred degrees on a steamy Thursday afternoon and not much can be seen along the dust-blown avenue in Kerman. A school bus cruises by. Cows lap up water or feed behind a fence. A tractor crosses the road.  What’s most evident in this span of the San Joaquin Va

Tech billionaires say they want to make life better on Earth. Here's what they're not talking about.

TAMPA, Fla.—Ross Fabian’s low-slung apartment building sits beside a pond that sometimes smells of dead fish. He has seen dead dogs in the pond. For many years the pond has served an important purpose, as a repository of sorts for the pollutants and contaminants that flow with Fl

In Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, policy makers, scientists and global negotiators are gathering to convey an urgent message: The world’s rangelands, which make up about half of Earth’s land surface, are in trouble. But these same lands offer an opportunity. If, collectively, farmers and

A collaborative project about Chicago’s handling of its massive number of lead water pipes—a public health hazard—has won a reporting award from the National Association of Black Journalists. The “Salute to Excellence” award is the latest in a list of honors for “Lead City,” a se

STONE HARBOR, N.J.—Against a lush carpet of marsh grasses, the five-and-a-half acre island of muddy sediment, shallow pools and tufts of straggly vegetation stood out like a sore thumb.  It wasn’t enough to catch the eye of young visitors to The Wetlands Institute, who were far m

Sales of used EV sales continued their surge in July, according to the latest data.

For thousands of years, Mexican howler monkeys have inhabited the lush rainforest canopy of what is now Los Tuxtlas—a 155,000-acre UNESCO biosphere reserve in the eastern state of Veracruz, 325 miles southeast of Mexico City. Every morning at around 4:30 a.m., these dark-haired p

Reservoirs have rebounded, but the fight over water isn’t over in Corpus Christi. The City Council has ordered a public referendum on a citizen-led petition that would sharply increase the price of water for industrial facilities during drought.  The proposal is expected to face

With Virginia’s Aug. 4 primaries in the rearview mirror, the ballot is set in one of the nation’s most competitive congressional districts.  In the state’s second congressional district, Republican incumbent Jen Kiggans will fight to hold her seat against former U.S. Rep. Elaine

Fossil fuel emissions are pushing Earth’s climate toward a dangerous new phase of climate “overshoot,” scientists warned Wednesday in a new report from the United Nations Environmental Programme. The report, Limiting Overshoot, projects that global temperatures will exceed the 1.

Tech billionaires say they want to make life better on Earth. Here's what they're not talking about.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from challenging California’s longstanding authority to set vehicle pollution standards stricter than federal requirements. The legal dispute stems from a decision announced in June by EPA administrator L

Texas officials told lawmakers at a state Senate hearing on Tuesday that they want to know how much water data centers across the state are using, but there is no master mailing list. The regulators are thus uncertain whether they’re reaching facility operators at the right addre

As data centers and other large users drove demand higher, U.S. power plants increased their output by 2.1 percent in the first half of the year compared to the first half of 2025.  This week, I looked at which states rose and fell the most and which power sources drove those cha

When the Trump administration last fall unveiled its cornerstone policy for carrying out the Clean Water Act—new language spelling out the reach of the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority—it said one of its goals was to return power to states and tribes. “This proposal re

HOMESTEAD, Fla.—It was too hot to sleep.  When the lights turned off and the air conditioning unit went quiet that night in July, it didn’t come as a surprise for Mirella Estrada, 51. She and her husband, both farmworkers, had long been struggling to pay off their climbing electr

From the Southwest to the Jersey shore, climate change is altering the traditions and norms that have defined summer for generations.

The technology could help create an early-warning system for changes in ice stability.

China’s carbon pollution fell modestly in recent months after the country’s consumers and industries sharply cut their use of oil, according to a new analysis. With oil and gas markets still in turmoil due to war in the Middle East, the trend could translate into a full-year decl

This story is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and Honolulu Civil Beat. Three years after the deadly Lahaina wildfire destroyed her childhood home, Raquel Utrillo cannot bear the thought of returning to the block where she grew up.  Others in the neighborhood have fini

A proposed offshore oil project near the Falkland Islands threatens sensitive marine ecosystems—and Argentina’s sovereignty—and must be halted, an Argentine environmental group and a veterans’ organization alleged in a new lawsuit.  The complaint, filed in a federal Argentine cou