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I'm going to level with you: sometimes I think I might know too much about climate change. Before you stop reading and delete all your news apps, stay with me for a minute. I know I chose this, after all, and I see my job as a privilege in many ways. But reporting on climate change means I get a front-row seat to the millions of ways humans' rising greenhouse gas emissions are fueling a hotter, more dangerous, more chaotic world. That takes a toll.
When Donald Trump’s in a hole, he digs deeper. As he does with other policies affecting immigration, trade and culture wars, Trump is still — or once again — pushing coal, beautifully clean coal as he calls it, as an energy goal. In pursuit of his belief that coal is being overlooked or displaced by “woke” concerns for solar, wind and alternative energy sources, last month Trump signed a series of executive orders towards reviving the dying coal industry. Whatever political sense it makes for Trump to court miners (or mine owners) in West Virginia and Wyoming, his efforts seem a tad shy of recognizing environmental, economic or market condition realities.
Through interviews with Flint residents, Alaa Al Ramahi captured the stress and resentment families are feeling from the Flint Water Crisis.
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Legislation that would "kill renewable energy in Texas" failed to progress in the state's House of Representatives.
Park and forest managers can’t rely on the past any longer to understand future risks. Fires, pests and climate change are changing the game.
Colton George felt sick. The 9-year-old Indiana boy told his parents his stomach hurt. He kept running to the bathroom and felt too ill to finish a basketball game. Days later, he lay in a hospital bed, fighting for his life. He had eaten tainted salad, according to a lawsuit against the lettuce grower filed by his parents on April 17 in federal court for the Southern District of Indiana. The E. coli bacteria that ravaged Colton’s kidneys was a genetic match to the strain that killed one person and sickened nearly 90 people in 15 states last fall. Federal health agencies investigated the cases and linked them to a farm that grew romaine lettuce. But most people have never heard about this outbreak, which a Feb. 11 internal Food and Drug Administration memo linked to a single lettuce processor and ranch as the source of the contamination. In what many experts said was a break with common practice, officials never issued public communications after the investigation or identified the grower who produced the lettuce. From failing to publicize a major outbreak to scaling back safety alert specialists and rules, the Trump administration’s anti-regulatory and cost-cutting push risks unraveling a critical system that helps ensure the safety of the U.S. food supply, according to consumer advocates, researchers and former employees at the FDA and U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Anthropic has recently raised concerns regarding the behavior of its AI model, Claude Opus 4, which has demonstrated a tendency to engage in blackmail-like behavior under specific conditions. In a con
As a proud Nevadan and Lake Tahoe resident who cherishes our public lands and forests, I feel compelled to speak out against the so-called “Fix Our Forests Act” (FOFA). Don’t let the title fool you! This federal legislation is no fix. In fact, it’s a reckless attempt to hand over the keys to our national […]
BARNSTABLE – As continuous rainfall in much of the state restores stream flows to the Connecticut River Valley, Western, and Northeast regions of the state, the Department of Energy and Environmental Affairs reports that drought conditions continue in the Southeast Region and the Cape and Islands.
CHATHAM – The carcass of a stranded whale that has set size records has been laid to rest off of Chatham’s coast by experts. The international Fund for Animal Welfare said the fin whale that …
Eight months after a Cook County judge found Trump Tower repeatedly violated clean water laws, the president’s business operators agreed Thursday to pay $4.8 million to settle lawsuits alleging the skyscraper’s cooling system killed untold numbers of fish in the Chicago River. The glass-and-steel tower, emblazoned with a sign spelling “TRUMP” in letters more than 20 feet high, is one of the city’s largest users of river water for its cooling systems. It siphons nearly 20 million gallons a day through intakes so powerful the machines could fill an Olympic swimming pool in less than an hour, then pumps the water back into the river up to 35 degrees hotter. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and two environmental groups discovered Trump Tower had been operating for years without a valid Clean Water Act permit, unlike other downtown buildings that limit the power of water pumps to protect fish and other aquatic organisms from being pinned against intake screens or killed by sudden changes in pressure and temperature.
In a recent interview with CNBC's David Faber at Tesla's headquarters in Austin, Texas, CEO Elon Musk announced the anticipated rollout of Tesla's robotaxi service, slated to begin by the end of June.
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More than a thousand people who worked to keep American agriculture free of pests and disease have left the federal workforce in President Trump's massive government downsizing.
Newport RI flood map, from the Rhode Island Floodplain Viewer. White area is current 500-year (.2 percent annual risk) flood zone; light blue is 100-year (1 percent annual risk) flood risk area; darker blue is combined storm surge and flooding 1 percent annual risk. Map does not incorporate projected risk due to accelerating climate change. Housing was a key issue in the 2024 election. We're short between 4 and 7 million homes, and Americans believe affordable housing is a particularly thorny problem. The Trump administration is taking advantage of this crisis to push for deregulation of building standards—particularly those that relate to flood and other climate-related risks. Both developers and lenders want federal regulators to loosen whatever rules they can. Their pitch—that lowering standards will provide opportunities to build and finance more housing—meets the moment. Federal regulators now in office will be happy to oblige, even if that means encouraging building in areas that insurance companies are already exiting because of concerns about exposure to losses driven by the physical effects of climate change.
There are more than 130 active wildfires across the country, half of which are considered out of control
The ruling marks a legal victory for the MTA, but does not end the agency's court battle with the feds over the future of the tolling program.
Hurricane season in the United States kicks off this Sunday, June 1st, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is not prepared. In an internal memo obtained by The Handbasket that was sent on Thursday to Acting FEMA Administrator David Richardson by Stephanie Dobitsch, Associate Administrator for Policy & Program Analysis, Dobitsch outlined the status of “critical functions” at the agency that a working group determined were at “high risk” of not properly functioning because of “significant personnel losses in advance of the 2025 Hurricane Season.” It offers justifications for certain functions being included in the report, and “corrective action” staff can ostensibly take to fix them. The document paints a picture of an agency in charge of mitigating disasters that’s in the midst of its own.
Nothing’s CEO speaks to WIRED about how he sees the smartphone market playing out in an era of AI, and where he thinks the competition is going wrong.
It’s kinda weird how, the more oligarchic our society gets, the more racist it gets. Why is the rise of billionaires attended by a revival of discredited eugenic ideas, dressed up in modern euphemisms like “race realism” and “human diversity”? I think the answer lies in JK Galbraith’s observation that “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” The theory of markets goes like this:
Brazil’s data center policy moves it further from true sovereignty, deepening dependence on Silicon Valley firms, writes Laís Martins.
BARNSTABLE – Local chambers of commerce are opposing EV regulation planned for next year that will eventually phase out new sales of internal combustion engines. The Cape Cod Canal Region and…
Openreach has its 25 million premises passed by full target for the end of 2026 and based on the build rates observed over the last 3 to 12 months we are expecting to report on that sometime between November 2026 and January 2027. In the last 12 months Openreach has said it built full fibre to some 4.3 million premises and is aiming to go further in the 12 months starting 1st April 2025 and ending 31st March 2026 with its engineers and contractors delivering full fibre to 5 million premises.
SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — A vanishing species of whale gave birth to few babies this birthing season, raising alarms among scientists and conservationists who fear the animal could go extinct. The …
Multiple FEMA employees tell WIRED that they did not know of another time when a strategic plan was rescinded without another in place.
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