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County
officials have said
they will eventually
close the incinerator,
located in a
predominantly Black
community. Advocates
want a concrete plan.
By
Keerti Gopal
Minneapolis
activists are
escalating a
decades-long fight by
going on a hunger
strike to demand that
local officials shut
down a polluting trash
incinerator.
 
N.C.
Gov. Josh Stein wants
state lawmakers to
rethink tax breaks for
data centers. The
industry’s opacity
makes it difficult to
evaluate costs and
benefits.
By
Lisa Sorg
Tax
breaks for data
centers in North
Carolina keep as much
as $57 million each
year from state and
local government
coffers, state figures
show, an amount that
could balloon to
billions of dollars if
all the proposed
projects are built.
Rising
temperatures and
overfishing have seen
the U.K.'s iconic cod
decline for over a
decade. Now, consumers
are warned to
“completely avoid”
eating the fish.
By
Johnny Sturgeon
The
days of Britain’s fish
and chip shops might
be numbered.
The
state Senate’s version
of the bill offers
more opportunities for
utilities to profit,
leading some observers
to question whether
the legislation will
substantively lower
costs for customers.
By
Aman Azhar
In
its most recent energy
affordability
legislation, the
Maryland Senate has
reversed key utility
accountability
proposals passed by
the state House and
added new ways for
utility companies to
earn profit, including
by reviving a
billion-dollar gas
subsidy that requires
all ratepayers to
cover the cost of
running new gas
pipelines to housing
developments.
A
company has proposed
to build a crude oil
pipeline crossing the
Canadian border near
where the
long-contested project
would have entered the
United States.
By
Nicholas Kusnetz
No
project better
embodies the nation’s
wild swings in climate
and energy policy than
the Keystone XL
pipeline.
A
team including
scientists, Indigenous
people and
conservationists point
to the ecosystem
connecting Yellowstone
and the Yukon as an
example of a region
where humans and
nature are flourishing
together.
By
Jake Bolster
Governments
cannot reach their
climate goals without
rethinking humanity’s
relationship to the
Earth.
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