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Alabama Power, the state’s largest electric utility, has agreed to delay a controversial rate increase by one year following widespread public backlash over rising electricity bills. The proposed rate hike was originally scheduled to help recover costs from the company’s…
The COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, marked a watershed moment for Indigenous participation in global climate negotiations, though outcomes were decidedly mixed according to Indigenous delegates who attended the two-week event. The summit featured the largest Indigenous representation in…
New photo series captures climate crisis reality across Philippine islands as the archipelago nation bears heavy consequences of global warming. Meanwhile, COP30 summit in Brazil draws criticism for inadequate fossil fuel commitments despite scientific warnings.
Brazil's COP30 climate summit concluded after 18-hour extensions without new fossil fuel phase-out agreements, while environmental journalists across Africa face increasing harassment for reporting on ecological damage from China's Belt and Road infrastructure projects.
Environmental journalists across Africa are facing increasing intimidation and police harassment when reporting on the ecological damage caused by China’s massive overseas infrastructure projects, according to a new investigation. The pressure campaign appears to extend far beyond China’s borders, targeting…
Communities in Lesotho are pushing back against one of Africa’s largest water infrastructure projects, filing a formal complaint with the African Development Bank over what they describe as environmental “greenwashing” that has brought poverty instead of promised development. The Lesotho…
Bipartisan opposition emerges to massive coastal drilling plans as governors from both coasts push back. Meanwhile, COP30's revolutionary forest fund will directly pay communities for tree protection, and California's environmental justice disputes highlight carbon market tensions.
A significant rift has emerged within California’s environmental leadership as a top environmental justice advisor resigned from the California Air Resources Board this week, citing irreconcilable differences over the state’s carbon trading policies. The resignation came while Governor Gavin Newsom…
Along the industrial shores of San Francisco Bay, Luna Angulo surveys a landscape where decades of chemical manufacturing have left a dangerous legacy. Behind razor wire and warning signs, former chemical plants sit on contaminated marshlands—a toxic time bomb that…
In a move that has sparked fierce debate among environmentalists and climate advocates, Brazil has authorized offshore oil drilling operations dangerously close to the Great Amazon Reef System, even as the country hosts COP30—the world’s most important climate summit dedicated…
