Nina Lakhani
The Guardian
United Kingdom
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A leading private equity firm claimed to be a climate leader – while increasing emissions
The Carlyle Group’s 2011-22 greenhouse gas footprint was roughly equivalent to Alaska’s ‘carbon bomb’ Willow drilling project → Read More
2023 Goldman environmental prize winners include Texas Gulf coast defender
Diane Wilson took on Formosa Plastics and won a $50m settlement to help clean up decades worth of toxic plastic waste → Read More
Nearly 120 million people in US exposed to unhealthy levels of soot and smog – report
American Lung Association’s study also found great disparity between coasts, with 10 of 11 most polluted counties in California → Read More
Biden urged to free Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier after decades in prison
Amnesty urges president to grant clemency to Peltier convicted of killing two FBI agents in trial rife with due process violations → Read More
Colorado River snaking through Grand Canyon most endangered US waterway – report
Unique ecosystem on the brink of collapse due to climate crisis and mismanagement, says conservation group American Rivers → Read More
Environmental defenders reel from Mexico and Central America attacks
At least two dozen activists in Indigenous and rural areas murdered, disappeared and jailed in wave of attacks → Read More
Green groups sue to stop Ohio from leasing state parks for oil and gas drilling
New law – condemned as ‘illegitimate giveaway to the oil and gas industry’ – requires state parks to be leased to interested parties → Read More
Harvard professor lobbied SEC on behalf of oil firm that pays her lavishly, emails show
Environmental law professor Jody Freeman urged to cut ties with ConocoPhillips, which pays her more than $350,000 a year → Read More
Disney chief Bob Iger calls Ron DeSantis ‘anti-business and anti-Florida’
CEO’s comments are latest round in bitter feud between governor and state’s largest corporate employer over ‘don’t say gay’ law → Read More
Majority-Black town fights to stop land being seized for gravel quarry rail link
Residents of Sparta, Georgia, are trying to stop the Sandersville railroad and its influential owners from building a spur to a quarry → Read More
Harvard professor’s fossil fuel links under scrutiny over climate grant
Colleagues and students query role of Jody Freeman, who won prestigious research grant despite sitting on ConocoPhillips board → Read More
United Nations adopts landmark resolution on climate justice
Resolution hailed as ‘win for climate justice of epic proportions’ should make it easier to hold countries legally accountable for environmental failures → Read More
First global water conference in 50 years yields hundreds of pledges, zero checks
Non-binding commitments, paucity of scientific data and poor representation of global south left a lot to be desired at summit → Read More
UN conference hears litany of water disasters linked to climate crisis
Accounts of global impact of floods, droughts and storms at New York meeting add to pressure to make water central to Cop28 → Read More
Biden approves controversial Willow oil drilling project in Alaska
Environmentalists and some Alaskan Native communities had opposed the plan over climate, wildlife and food-shortage fears → Read More
New Utah oil railroad by Colorado River raises health and climate fears
Railway is forecast to quadruple crude oil production in the Uinta Basin and will damage Biden’s climate credentials, campaigners say → Read More
What’s in the air in East Palestine, Ohio?
When a train derailed in a small town in Ohio last month, it shed its toxic load, spewed smoke and set off a political firestorm that is still raging → Read More
‘No one is coming to save us’: residents of towns near toxic train derailment feel forgotten
People living near the chemical disaster are wary of contamination, and even across the state line Pennsylvanians are worried → Read More
What’s in the air in East Palestine, Ohio?
When a train derailed in a small town in Ohio last month, it shed its toxic load, spewed smoke and set off a political firestorm that is still raging → Read More
‘You’re not forgotten‘: how the right racialized the Ohio train disaster
Fox News, Trump and JD Vance claim Biden overlooked East Palestine’s plight, citing residents’ whiteness as the reason → Read More