by Emma Ricketts and Grant Schwab | Jan 26, 2023 | Environment, Featured
While the prospects for a bitterly divided Congress to produce further ambitious climate legislation are almost nonexistent, newly named Republican leaders of key House committees say they want to help bring the U.S. closer to its emissions goal. “There’s...
by Christina van Waasbergen | Jan 9, 2023 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON—The Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean School Bus Program has hit a speed bump. Part of the bipartisan infrastructure law passed last year, the program will provide $5 billion over the next five years to help school districts switch to clean energy...
by Emma Ricketts | Nov 7, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — After the Securities and Exchange Commission held more than 150 meetings this year with investors and other stakeholders interested in its pending regulations that would require companies to disclose climate-related risks and greenhouse gas emissions,...
by Emma Ricketts | Nov 7, 2022 | Environment
Environmentalists in Beaver County alarmed by harmful emissions from the plant once it opens say they are discouraged by most voters’ inattention, but not deterred. ALIQUIPPA, Pa. — From the tranquility of her garden in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Terrie...
by Emma Ricketts | Oct 27, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Antarctica is home to the coldest place on Earth and 70% of the planet’s freshwater, but the absence of human occupation makes it easy to overlook the continent’s rapidly changing climate. This week, however, Antarctica took center stage in both the...
by Emma Ricketts | Oct 19, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — With just three weeks to go until the opening of the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, known as COP27, small island states and coastal communities from across the globe are calling for greater...
