by Ariel Gans | Mar 4, 2022 | Environment
Last year, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who ran an historic—if unsuccessful—climate-centered campaign for president in 2019, signed two major climate initiatives into law, as part of his state’s Climate Commitment Act. The first initiative established a cap-and-trade...
by Jonathan Lehrfeld and Isabel Miller | Mar 2, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — The climate crisis, which President Joe Biden has previously called an “existential threat to humanity,” received little attention during his first State of the Union. “We’ll create good jobs for millions of Americans, modernizing...
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by Isabel Miller | Feb 28, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday considered an Obama administration regulation to regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants. Coal companies and several Republican states, led by West Virginia, want to limit the Clean Power Plan from 2015 that never...
by Courtney Degen | Feb 22, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, a federally funded research center led by UW-Madison, would receive an additional $5 million in funding each year through 2026 from legislation that passed the House earlier this month but still faces...
by Cristobella Durrette | Feb 22, 2022 | Environment, Featured
The Beijing 2022 Olympics wrap up this weekend, but construction and artificial snow use in the alpine and sliding sports competitions in Zhangjiakou and Yanqing could create long-term changes to the areas’ ecosystems. Before the world’s top winter athletes took to...
by Hannah Schoenbaum and Isabel Miller | Feb 10, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — New York is slated to receive nearly $70 million to plug thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells scattered across the state as the Biden administration begins distributing funds from the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law. The infrastructure...
