Emily Holden
The Guardian
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Biden his time: how the US president is failing on the climate crisis
After the Trump administration gutted environmental agencies and abandoned the Paris agreement, Biden’s climate legacy is starting to take shape – and it doesn’t look good → Read More
Solar surcharge: how US power firms try to make people pay for going green
In states such as Kansas, energy companies are seeking to impose financial charges on people who install rooftop solar arrays → Read More
The young people taking their countries to court over climate inaction
Children and young adults around the world are demanding action from governments on global heating and the ecological crisis → Read More
Why won’t this giant oil pipeline reveal its secret backers?
Expansion will stretch hundreds miles and is fiercely opposed by numerous groups – but despite repeated calls the Canadian government has not forced the pipeline reveal its insurers → Read More
New Mexico fights to escape powerful grip of big oil and gas
New Mexico seeks to become an economy less reliant on oil and gas, but the extractive industries continue to exert their might on the state and its people → Read More
Bank boards have conflicts of interest over climate – and it shows in the fossil fuels they back
Analysis finds 77% of directors on boards of seven US banks have ties to ‘climate-conflicted’ groups → Read More
Natural but deadly: huge gaps in US rules for wood-stove smoke exposed
The government spent millions subsidizing new wood heaters supposed to burn more cleanly. But an investigation has discovered critical flaws → Read More
Republicans' new favorite study trashes Biden's climate plans – but who's behind it?
Wyoming representative Liz Cheney says the study proves Biden’s policies would destroy state economies. But it has the oil and gas industry’s fingerprints all over it → Read More
A Texas city had a bold new climate plan – until a gas company got involved
The fossil fuel industry is using the same playbook to fight city climate plans around the country → Read More
More than 25m drink from the worst US water systems, with Latinos most exposed
Guardian investigation shows systems in Latino areas violate federal drinking water rules twice as much as those serving the rest of the US → Read More
Trump’s California water plan troubled federal biologists. They were sidelined
Exclusive: Although scientists recommended otherwise, Trump officials favored political allies over endangered animals, internal emails show → Read More
Trump auction of oil leases in Arctic refuge attracts barely any bidders
Coastal plain was up for sale as part of the Trump administration’s plan to pay for Republicans’ tax cuts with oil revenue → Read More
Trump auctions Arctic refuge to oil drillers in last strike against US wilderness
Sales of drilling rights are the climax to one of the nation’s highest-profile environmental battles → Read More
A Minnesota oil company is bringing in a pipeline – and with it the risk of Covid
Advocates and Native tribes, who have fought the proposal for years, have renewed complaints amid a coronavirus surge → Read More
Why is Joe Biden considering this man to help fight the climate crisis?
The Biden transition team is facing pressure not to hire people with fossil fuel ties, like Obama’s energy secretary Ernest Moniz → Read More
Climate activists ramp up pressure on Biden with protest outside Democratic headquarters
Climate groups plan to camp in Washington DC in protest of Biden’s hires of key staff with connections to the oil and gas industry → Read More
Senior Biden adviser set for key role has ties to oil and gas, climate activists warn
Climate advocates urge Louisiana congressman Cedric Richmond to leverage his new position to help bring attention to their plight → Read More
'We packed long underwear and never wore it': Arctic scientists shocked at warming
Couple finds areas that once required ice-breaking ship have become open water → Read More
Why Republican control of US Senate would kneecap climate action
Spending on green infrastructure likely under Biden, but any hopes for climate requirements for businesses much farther off → Read More
Fate of climate crisis hangs on election as US exits Paris agreement
Trump administration set US withdrawal in motion a year ago but it didn’t take effect until 4 November → Read More