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...
by Quinn Clark | Mar 18, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Environmental activist and singer-songwriter Carole King criticized the U.S. Forest Service’s use of logging as a way to combat wildfires at a House hearing Wednesday, saying that logging operations contribute to carbon emissions. “I...
by Andrew Marquardt | Mar 9, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers from both parties Wednesday vowed to develop a federal plan to “deliver actionable tools and resources” to fight climate change in the wake of a series of recent climate reports that outline the urgent need to reduce carbon...
