The state’s Council on Environmental Justice needs additional funding, they say, while the Republican Youngkin administration hasn’t made community environmental concerns a priority. By Hannah Chanatry...
With a years-long backlog in the U.S. government’s risk assessments of thousands of potentially hazardous chemicals, the new law requires companies to disclose what chemicals are...
The move to enshrine those rights is part of a flurry of developments advancing the rights of nature movement this year. By Katie Surma Ireland—a nation...
Scores of California farmworkers are dying in the heat in regions with chronically bad air, even in a state with one of the toughest heat standards...
CO2 released by burning biogas from cow manure is counted as an emission reduction, rather than a climate pollutant, and multiple state programs are taking credit...
County officials say they’d need millions of dollars to buy the equipment required to safely carry out rescue operations amid a CO2 pipeline rupture, which can...
The state is considering changes to a program that has incentivized dairy biogas. Neighbors are pushing for an end to the subsidies. By Emma Foehringer Merchant...
Environmental advocates say action is still needed to protect “mature” trees, while industry views the move as hindering timber harvests that provide wildfire protection. By Marianne...
The push and pull of progress and catastrophe made 2023 one of the most discordant—and consequential—years for the world’s climate. By ICN Staff In 2023, clean...
Industrial developers describe facilities as “minor” polluters to avoid federal permitting requirements, and environmental lawyers say the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality lets it happen. By...