Environment

Technology

Shein Embraces AI, Sending Its Emissions Through the Roof

Sachi Kitajima Mulkey / Grist Sep 10, 2024 The fast-fashion giant nearly doubled its emissions in 2023, making it the biggest polluter in the industry. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Environment

Jordan Peterson’s Climate Culture War

Geoff Dembicki / DeSmog Sep 10, 2024 The Canadian influencer and his Project 2025 allies in the U.S. want people to see climate action as a ‘pseudo-religion.’ Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Environment

Can the U.S. Census Keep Up With Climate Displacement?

Zoya Teirstein / Grist Sep 4, 2024 In a portent of things to come, residents of Lake Charles, Louisiana, are still on the move four years after Hurricane Laura. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Economic Justice

The Effect Back-to-Back Storms Had on Lake Charles

Zoya Teirstein / Grist Sep 4, 2024 Taking a look at the toll extreme weather has had on the “most unfortunate city in the United States.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Environment

The Forgotten Struggle To Ban Gas-Powered Cars in the 1960s

Scott W. Stern / Grist Aug 30, 2024 Half a century ago, an obscure state senator fought to ban vehicles that used combustion engines—and almost won. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Environment

Northwest Coastal Tribes Are Drowning in Paperwork Amid Sea-Level Rise

B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster / High Country News Aug 29, 2024 A new study shows how federal grant funding has become an obstacle to climate adaptation. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Activism

Nuclear ‘Downwinders’ Deserve Justice

Aspen Coriz-Romero, Anila Lopez Marks / OtherWords Aug 29, 2024 Funding for the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act has expired, but the poison legacy of the nuclear arms race in New Mexico lives on. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

TD Original

Cull of the Wild

Daniel Elkind / Truthdig Aug 28, 2024 A new bill threatens to bring Washington’s long, bipartisan war on wolves to a bloody close. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Environment

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Target Greenwashing

Emily Sanders / DeSmog Aug 27, 2024 Inspired by a Canadian law, a proposed bill would compel polluters to scrub misleading content. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Environment

How Climate Change Is Driving Up Food Prices Around the World

Orla Dwyer / Carbon Brief Aug 26, 2024 Extreme weather disrupts supply, pushing up prices on common supermarket items everywhere. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Politics

The DNC Is Aware of Its Climate Paradox

Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco / Grist Aug 20, 2024 How do you talk tough about sustainability at a gathering that pulls in 50,000 people from across the country, most of them by plane? Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Health & Wellness

Defense Department Defies EPA Order on ‘Forever Chemicals’

Nick Cleveland-Stout / Responsible Statecraft Aug 15, 2024 The U.S. Air Force cites the Supreme Court’s overturning of the Chevron Doctrine in evading the directive. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )