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As the Georgia Public Service Commission writes, "Very few governmental agencies have as much impact on people's lives."

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Shareholder advocacy groups have already won plastics-related concessions from companies including Disney, Hormel, and Choice Hotels.

At least, not fast enough to reach international climate targets.

Activist investors want the company to trim its biggest source of emissions. Exxon sees that as a threat.

With cheap land and a competitive market irresistible to energy storage developers, the Lone Star State will even overtake California in battery deployments this year.

Residents in Pomona’s industrial zone have dealt with pollution from waste facilities, warehouses, and other polluting industries for close to a century.

A new report asks whether supposedly green livestock practices have proven benefits.

The new guidelines will save people $2.2 billion a year in utility costs and eliminate 71 million tons of planet-warming CO2 emissions.

Medical supply warehouses can be a significant source of cancer-causing ethylene oxide emissions. Only one state is doing anything about it.

A revised CDC reporting system led to a 70 percent increase in reported cases of Lyme disease, but experts say more can be done.

Some of the world's largest pension funds bet big on Brazilian farmland. Communities, and the climate, are paying the price.

Tribal climate action plans are being stymied by state-owned land within reservation borders.

Some activists view the industry's response as a badge of success.

Many turbines rely on high-demand rare-earth minerals. A new Department of Energy program aims to keep them out of landfills.

Biden’s green transition could overlook towns heavily reliant upon fossil fuels for industries like steelmaking and fertilizer production.

The Hague can only prosecute four types of crimes. Ecocide could become the fifth.

“It shouldn't have to be this hard to get these common sense rules in place.”

A new report says melting ice sheets and rising seas could disturb waste from U.S. nuclear projects in Greenland and the Marshall Islands.

The elevated photovoltaic panels can actually improve grazing conditions, a novelty that could help make solar projects more land-efficient and accepted in the ranching-heavy state.