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Recent
satellite monitoring
revealed that actual
emissions from the
West Texas and
southeast New Mexico
basin are four times
higher than official
estimates.
By
Phil McKenna
U.S.
Sen. Sheldon
Whitehouse (D-RI)
launched an
investigation into the
discrepancy between
reported and observed
methane pollution from
the Permian Basin—the
largest-producing oil
field in the United
States and one of the
largest in the world.
 
Oil
companies bid on more
than 1 million acres
in the first lease
sale in the Western
Arctic since 2019. The
tracts included areas
where leasing appears
to be prohibited.
By
Nicholas Kusnetz
Oil
companies won the
right to drill on more
than 1.3 million acres
across the Alaskan
Arctic on Wednesday,
including areas that
local Alaska Native
leaders consider
critical to wildlife
and subsistence
hunting and land set
aside for
conservation.
While
the electric vehicle
company has a permit
to discharge effluent
into a ditch, the
local drainage
district said it
didn’t permit use of
its easement.
By
Arcelia Martin
The
Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality
on Friday approved an
investigation report
on Tesla’s
battery-grade lithium
compounds
manufacturing facility
near Robstown in
Nueces County, finding
no violation of the
plant’s wastewater
discharge permit.
Honda’s
decision to cancel
production of three EV
models in Ohio
continues a grim
trend.
By
Dan Gearino
Honda
is being whipsawed by
a decreasing emphasis
on electric vehicles
in the United States
and a rapid shift to
EVs in China.
The
data center would be
on 1,844 acres that
abut or include farms,
homes and the burial
grounds of Native
American and enslaved
people.
By
Lisa Sorg
WALNUT
COVE, N.C.—Tim and
Deborah Mabe gazed off
their back deck and
into a deep cleft
where Town Fork Creek
flows through their
land and on to the Dan
River. The creek where
60 years ago Tim’s
younger sister floated
in a washtub a
quarter-mile
downstream before he
and his twin brother
nabbed her.
Discussing
climate change can
make a difference.
Focusing on the
impacts in everyday
life is a good place
to start, experts say.
By
David Sun
When
Bad Bunny climbed onto
broken power lines
during his Super Bowl
halftime show,
millions of viewers
saw a spectacle.
Climate communicators
saw a lesson in how to
talk about climate
change.
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