Greenhouse gas rules offer leeway, but come packaged with new standards for air, water and waste that put big restraints on coal. By Marianne Lavelle The Biden administration punctuated Earth Week by finalizing a sweeping set of regulations for power plants—the source of one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas pollution—that are designed to hasten the transition to clean electricity across the nation ..read more

It’s tempting but also perilous to try to draw larger conclusions from the short-term ups and downs of the EV maker and the oil giant. By Dan Gearino One of the sideshows in a wild week for Tesla is how its market capitalization tumbled behind and then jumped back ahead of ExxonMobil ..read more

By affirming Indigenous land ownership, British Columbia and the Haida Nation are signaling a new era for Indigenous relations. By Serena Renner, Hakai Magazine Twenty years ago, Geoff Plant, the then attorney general of British Columbia, made an offer to the Haida Nation. Many West Coast First Nations, including the Haida, had never signed treaties with the Canadian government ceding their traditional lands or resources, and Plant was trying to revive the faltering process of treaty making. He wanted to smooth over relations with Indigenous peoples, but he also wanted to help the province ext ..read more

The former presidential candidate spoke privately with reporters in New York while helping to train the next generation of climate activists. By Kristoffer Tigue NEW YORK CITY—Former Vice President Al Gore paid a visit to the Big Apple earlier this month to help train a new cohort of climate activists just ahead of Earth Day ..read more

As a competing bill emerges, supporters defend RAWA as the ’gold standard.’ By Erin X. Wong, High Country News This story was originally published by High Country News ..read more

In its annual “State of the Air” report, the group noted that while poor air quality is pervasive, communities of color are more than twice as likely to experience the worst impacts. By Victoria St. Martin Within five miles of Kim Gaddy’s home in the South Ward of Newark, N.J., lies the nation’s third-busiest shipping port, thirteenth-busiest airport and roughly a half dozen major roadways. All told, transportation experts say, the area where Gaddy and her neighbors live sees an average of roughly 20,000 truck trips each day ..read more

Experts say Biden is hoping to solidify his environmental record in the leadup to the presidential election. By Kiley Price For the Biden administration, Earth Day is a month-long affair.  ..read more

Advocates from across the Americas hosted a mock hearing to call out Citibank’s fossil fuel financing, kicking off a week of protests targeting Wall Street’s climate impacts. By Keerti Gopal NEW YORK—About 100 people gathered in a Manhattan church on Earth Day to hold a mock legal hearing on claims that Citibank is financing environmental injustice.  ..read more

Grants totaling $7 billion are based on an idea from Sen. Bernie Sanders that aims for cleaner air and lower utility bills. By Dan Gearino For people who have spent their careers trying to expand access to rooftop solar energy, the announcement on Monday of $7 billion worth of project support from the Biden administration is almost unfathomable in its size and scope ..read more

The EPA has spent over $30 million to clean up a Pensacola site contaminated with dioxin, yet has failed to install adequate controls to prevent the spread of tainted groundwater and soil. By Katie Surma The Environmental Protection Agency may have wasted or risked millions of dollars by failing to prevent the spread of contamination hazardous to human health at a Superfund site in Pensacola, Florida, an agency watchdog report found.  ..read more