stLouISTDisabled drivers can’t use many electric car chargers. It doesn’t have to be this way.
If electric cars are the future, people with disabilities need to drive them.
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What the eclipse reveals about the progress and shortfalls of US energy
When an eclipse blocks out the sun, we get a glimpse of how our grid uses fossil fuels to compensate — and a future where it won't have to.
In Chicago, one neighborhood is fighting gentrification and climate change at the same time
The secret to success? Build affordable housing next to transit.
These ‘green banks’ are getting billions to decarbonize disadvantaged communities
The Biden administration just distributed $20 billion in IRA funding to loan to individuals and communities across the country.
As Amazon eliminates plastic packaging abroad, it’s using even more in the US
A new report finds Amazon has reduced plastic packaging the most in countries with stringent regulations.
How big-box stores and schools can help marginalized communities go solar
Installing solar arrays on commercial and public buildings could bring renewable energy to two-thirds of the nation's disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Jane Goodall’s legacy of empathy, curiosity, and courage
As the iconic scientist and activist celebrates her 90th birthday, her message for younger generations is one of hope — and not fearing the next adventure.
US experienced staggering growth in solar and wind power over the last decade
Nearly a quarter of the nation's grid now runs on renewables, bringing the country closer to its climate goals.
North Carolina tried to rebuild affordable housing after a hurricane. It took half a decade.
Documents show how federal paperwork delayed the state’s recovery from Hurricane Florence and left low-income renters in the lurch.
The EPA wanted to clean up steel mills. Then a group of Rust Belt senators got involved.
Steel towns will see some reductions in toxic pollution from new regulations — but not as much as they’d hoped.
Indigenous peoples’ climate labor benefits everyone. Should it be paid?
“I don’t think money is going to solve it. But I also feel like we do have a responsibility to ensure that we are taking care of the people who are working for all of us.”
The EPA’s push to clean up trucking goes way beyond 18-wheelers
Delivery trucks, school buses, and other short-haul vehicles will electrify much faster than big rigs, easing air pollution in urban neighborhoods.
Indigenous Pacific wildfire survivors on Maui can finally get FEMA help
Three Pacific nations signed treaties with the U.S. Then Congress changed the rules.
In Texas, ex-oil and gas workers champion geothermal energy as a replacement for fossil-fueled power plants
Texas has become an early hot spot for geothermal energy exploration as scores of former oil industry workers and executives are taking their knowledge to a new energy source.
Midwest maple syrup producers adapt to record warm winter, uncertainty as climate changes
Human-caused climate change is having varied and unpredictable effects on maple harvests in Wisconsin, Iowa, and elsewhere, experts say.
With energy demand surging, utilities fall back on their old standby: Fossil fuels
Federal incentives for clean energy are struggling to overcome old-school planning.
Puerto Rico declares an emergency as cases of dengue fever spike
Warmer temperatures are driving outbreaks of dengue worldwide, with millions of cases already reported in 2024.
Landfills bake the planet even more than we realized
Aerial monitoring finds they emit methane at levels at least 40 percent higher than previously reported to the EPA.
Elizabeth Kolbert wants us to rethink the stories we tell about climate change
In "H Is for Hope," Kolbert explores the contradictions of a global problem, from A to Z.
As climate change threatens cultural treasures, museums get creative to conserve both energy and artifacts
Museums are reckoning with their own carbon footprints as they work to safeguard their collections from heat and storms.