Tag: environment

A visual feature recently assembled by The New York Times reveals in stark detail the dearth of people of color, in the year 2020, in the country’s halls of power. ...

A 2019 report from the N.R.D.C., Environmental Justice Health Alliance, and Coming Clean found widespread violations and poor enforcement of the S.W.D.A., with communities of color hit the hardest. Between ...

Joel Shannon, USA TODAY Published 6:26 p.m. ET Sept. 10, 2020 CLOSE Hurricane Laura battered western portions of Louisiana, tearing apart structures, severing power lines and clogging streets with debris. ...

Democrats now control every branch of government in California, which is home to what are arguably the most ambitious climate policies in the country. California is currently burning. Some 900 ...

On Tuesday, the Bureau of Land Management auctioned off oil and gas leases to 11 parcels of land totaling around 15,000 acres in Nevada. It’s the latest event in a ...

A scientist built a web tool that lets you find out where your town was millions of years ago on Earth.  Earth’s plates have shifted a lot over the eons, ...

A gender reveal party sparked a wildfire that has already consumed 7,000 acres and forced widespread evacuations. A “pyrotechnic” device was used at the party and that, combined with the ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — One option for minimizing the environmental effects of a proposed solar farm in the Nevada desert would be to mow the vegetation where the panels would ...

Subscribers to The Climate Crisis newsletter received this piece in their in-boxes. Sign up to receive future installments.The struggle over climate change is necessarily political and economic and noisy—if we’re ...

Black history in Charleston sits at the water’s edge. On the same spot where thousands of enslaved Africans took their first steps on South Carolina’s shore, a monument to their ...