Climate & Energy
These teens are taking their climate lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court
The premise of the case: The sky belongs to everyone, so governments must protect it.
Craft brewers join the fight against natural gas pipelines
At the base of the Blue Ridge, a battle is brewing over a massive pipeline designed to pull shale gas to the Atlantic Coast.
We were promised methane regulations! Where are our methane regulations?!
The U.S. oil-and-gas boom is dumping oodles of methane into the atmosphere, and so far, the feds haven't gotten meaningful regulations together.
This could be the hottest year on record, again
The first nine months of 2014 broke the heat record, and now we're on track for this whole year to be the warmest ever.
Rooftop solar is just the beginning; utilities must innovate or go extinct
Fights over rooftop solar generally focus on "net metering," but the challenge to utilities is far greater than that, and if they hope to survive, their response must be more ambitious.
How skyrocketing development in Texas could suck the state dry
The Lone Star State is losing open space faster than any other, and that's bad news for the water cycle.
U.K. climate activists take divestment to the banks
A new campaign in Britain aims to get banks to stop investing in the fossil fuel industry.
Clean energy advocates need to speak up if they want black lawmakers to hear them
Why are some African-American lawmakers taking their cues from the fossil-fuel industry? They're not getting the other side of the story.
Now congressional Republicans are digging through scientists’ grant proposals
Rep. Lamar Smith has launched an aggressive campaign against what he sees as misguided money management at the National Science Foundation.
