Corbin Hiar
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Bank's implosion puts climate tech companies on edge
Silicon Valley Bank's failure dealt a blow to climate startups. It was the bank that would "always pick up the phone when other large money center banks → Read More
Democrats shame Big Oil in hourslong hearing
A marathon hearing of the House Oversight and Reform Committee featured expert testimony, a dive into oil and gas advertisements, a shouting match — and → Read More
Hot deals: A consumer's guide to the new climate law
Electric vehicles. Solar panels. Even farm improvements. Here's your tip sheet on how to take advantage of the incentives and tax credits in the Inflation → Read More
Bill McKibben Q&A: Fighting banks, surfing sofas and booming
The celebrity climate activist is recruiting older Americans to stop banks from financing fossil fuel projects. → Read More
Shareholder climate activists aim for 'watershed year'
Sustainable investment advocates passed three dozen environmental, social and governance-related shareholder resolutions in 2021, a record-breaking annual → Read More
The cash behind carbon removal: Big Oil, tech and taxpayers
A wave of investors are betting on the world-saving potential of small, privately held carbon dioxide removal companies. → Read More
Exxon sting ensnares think tanks with climate credentials
A lobbyist for Exxon Mobil revealed in a secretly recorded conversation that the oil giant uses the analyses of respected think tanks to influence congressional action on climate change. Here's how it works. → Read More
BUSINESS: New powder could cut cow burp emissions. Will FDA say OK?
There is no silver bullet for climate change. But a Dutch conglomerate thinks there just might be a powder. → Read More
TRANSPORTATION: Tires are big emitters. EVs could worsen their pollution
The tire industry has a sustainability problem and electric vehicles could make it worse, experts say. → Read More
PANDEMIC: Interior Secretary Bernhardt tests positive for COVID-19
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has tested positive for COVID-19. → Read More
EMISSIONS: Biden campaign's carbon offset plan full of holes
The Biden campaign says it's offsetting aviation emissions. That amounts to about half of its greenhouse gases. → Read More
OIL AND GAS: Slip-up reveals Chevron ties to architect of climate attack
An audacious messaging campaign accused white environmentalists of hurting black communities by pushing radical climate policies. It accidentally left a trail leading to Chevron. → Read More
CARBON MARKETS: Pandemic ends offsets boom. Is a bust in the offing?
At the end of last year, the market for projects to prevent carbon dioxide emissions was booming. The growing demand for the carbon offset credits such projects produced was driven by companies and consumers that — due to regulations or virtue — sought to balance their pollution by preventing emissions elsewhere. → Read More
EPA: Trump admin provides 'customer' service to troubled refinery
A pollution-plagued oil refinery that shut down in 2012 is now on the verge of reopening in the U.S. Virgin Islands, thanks to the aid of EPA chief Andrew Wheeler. Some EPA officials believe Wheeler's rubber-stamping campaign for the project could serve as a road map for rushing through other environmentally destructive schemes. → Read More
EPA: Cancer testing revamp races on, worrying greens and industry
EPA leaders are pushing forward with an overhaul of the way the agency evaluates the dangers of environmental contaminants after a brief consultation with outside scientists — a process that environmentalists claim was rushed and could be misused. → Read More
OIL AND GAS: EPA leaders helped bail out failed Philadelphia refinery
Top EPA officials, including former Administrator Scott Pruitt and outgoing air chief Bill Wehrum, were involved in efforts to revive the Philadelphia Energy Solutions oil refinery that went bankrupt last year and is now shutting down after a fiery explosion last week. → Read More
Health experts wary of EPA rush to revise carcinogen testing
Agency seeking to quickly revise rules for key risk studies → Read More
EPA plan to end funding for children’s health research leaves scientists scrambling
The headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Rob Crandall/Alamy Stock Photo EPA plan to end funding for children’s health research leaves scientists scrambling Despite repeatedly expressing public support for children’s health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ending funding for a network of research centers focused on environmental threats to… → Read More
SCIENCE: EPA cuts off funding for kids' health research centers
The Trump administration is ending funding for a network of research centers focused on environmental threats to kids, imperiling several long-running studies of pollutants' effects on child development. The move comes despite EPA officials' repeatedly expressing public support for children's health, and critics say it is part of a broader effort to downplay science that could lead to stricter… → Read More
ENFORCEMENT: Inside top EPA officials' secret polluter meetings
Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and high-ranking aides held several off-the-books meetings with an electric utility company that EPA has for years accused of violating the Clean Air Act, according to agency documents that critics say provide an extraordinary glimpse at the way environmental enforcement can be deferred by industry players with direct access to political leaders. → Read More