Kate Aronoff

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The mining giant Rio Tinto is moving ahead with a novel form of lithium extraction in Serbia’s Jadar Valley. Powerful governments want to see it succeed. But critics say it could contaminate drinking water for a third of the population.

The private-sector approach to creating a national charging network isn’t working.

Harris’s climate answer was bad by design. And the immigration segments of the debate show why that’s a bad strategy.

Kevin Roberts believes environmentalism is something between a “pseudo-religion” and a conspiracy. Yet he’s one of the speakers at the paper’s Climate Forward event later this month.

The investment vehicles have stoked right-wing rage for being “woke.” But with these funds bulking up on military money, it’s hard to know what that term means anymore.

Deaths from extreme heat, landslides, and other severe weather seem to be rising. Can they be added to fossil fuels’ death toll?

The fossil fuel company released a report this week forecasting business as usual through 2050.

At its convention this week, the party largely avoided two crises that are the cause of mass suffering: climate change and Israel’s war in Gaza.

Democrats seem to be struggling to identify a winning narrative on climate policy. Maybe they should try this one.

Speaking to undercover reporters, Micah Meadowcroft privately admitted that Republicans tend to think that if “you just produce enough wealth, and then you can just buy your way out of whatever pollution deficit you put yourself into later.”

By its own standards, the landmark piece of climate legislation was a smashing success. Its future, however, could be decided on Election Day.

A toxic combination of climate change and poor governance is leaving Floridians in a crunch.

Kamala Harris’s V.P. pick matters more as a political signal than a policymaker.

NATO seems worried about climate change. But stopping climate change probably means cutting defense spending.

This election should never have been as close as it’s now gotten.

By refusing to do so, he’s not only imperiling American democracy.

Conservative justices this week confused nitrous oxide with nitrogen oxides and then insisted that they, not the EPA, were the final word on environmental regulations.

Spraying the site with orange cornstarch paint is irritating but temporary. What enrages people is their feeling of impotence in the face of problems they can’t fully acknowledge.

From impeding rest and water breaks to blocking climate policy, the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act will make life harder and hotter in the Lone Star State.

Tenants often lack protections like maximum temperature regulations, and can even be barred from installing air conditioners themselves. As the world warms, that’s increasingly dangerous.