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California Governor Signs Bills to Tighten Restrictions on Oil and Gas Drillers

“We will hold the oil industry accountable for their pollution and public health impacts,” said Assemblymember Gregg Hart, author of one of the bills.

By Liza Gross

Children play soccer next to active oil wells in Los Angeles County’s Inglewood Oil Field, the largest urban oil field in the nation. Credit: Gary Kavanagh
An adipic acid plant in Liaoyang, in northeast China's Liaoning Province, owned by Liaoyang Petrochemical Company, a subsidiary of Petrochina. Credit: Yang Qing/Xinhua/Yang Qing via Getty Images

Focus on the ‘Forgotten Greenhouse Gas’ Intensifies as All Eyes Are on the U.S. and China to Curb Pollution

By Phil McKenna

Streets were flooded in South Williamsburg as Tropical Storm Ophelia hit the city on Sept. 29, 2023. Credit: Gwynne Hogan/THE CITY

How New York City Has Lost Out on $4.2 Billion in State Green Bonds

By Samantha Maldonado, THE CITY

Sunrise Movement activists march to the Democratic National Committee’s office to urge Kamala Harris to make bold climate policy central to her campaign on July 29. Credit: Rachael Warriner/Sunrise Movement

Will Young Voters’ Initial Excitement for Harris Build Enough Momentum to Get Them to the Polls?

By Keerti Gopal

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moves between interviews in the Pennsylvania Convention Center before the first presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris on Sept. 10 in Philadelphia. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

RFK Jr.’s ‘Sad’ Slide From Environmental Hero to Outcast

By Phil McKenna

CalFire manages a prescribed controlled burn in Northern California on Nov. 14, 2023. Wildfire prevention, among other climate solutions, is on the state's ballot as Proposition 4. Credit: Penny Collins/NurPhoto via Getty Images

California Ballot Asks Voters to Invest in Climate Solutions

By Liza Gross

Former President Donald Trump debates Vice President Kamala Harris for the first time during the presidential election campaign at the National Constitution Center on Sept. 10 in Philadelphia. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

A Trump Debate Comment About German Energy Policy Leaves Germans Perplexed

By Dan Gearino

Honduras Próspera built a 14-story mixed-use tower perched at the bottom of a once-forested hillside near Crawfish Rock, a fishing village of a few hundred people on the island of Roatán. Credit: Nicholas Kusnetz/Inside Climate News

In Honduras, Libertarians and Legal Claims Threaten to Bankrupt a Nation

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma

People walk in front of the Goldman Sachs Headquarters in New York City. Goldman Sachs left the Climate Action 100+ investor group last month. Credit: Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress

Departures From Climate Action 100+ Highlight U.S.-Europe Divide Over ESG Investing

By Mathilde Augustin

A house is surrounded by floodwaters from Tropical Storm Debby on Aug. 6 in Charleston, South Carolina. Credit: Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images

The Promise and Challenges of Managed Retreat

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, a Democrat and Nevada’s junior senator, is challenged by Republican Sam Brown in the upcoming election. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call and Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

In Nevada, Clean Energy Divides the Senate Race

By Wyatt Myskow

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are set to debate on Tuesday night. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images and Melina Mara/The Washington Post

10 Tough Climate Questions for the Presidential Debate

By Marianne Lavelle, Kiley Bense, Liza Gross

Andrea Childers stands in the creek on her property, which sits next to the Moriah Energy Center site in southeastern Person County.

As the Planet Warms, Activists in North Carolina Mobilize to Stop a Gathering Storm

Story by Lisa Sorg, Inside Climate News and photos by Julia Wall, The Assembly

Fossil Fuel Funding Is ‘Embedded’ Across Academia. What Does That Mean for Climate Research?

By Kiley Price

An aerial view of produced water ponds constructed by Martin Water in Lenorah, Texas. Credit: Julian Mancha for The Texas Tribune/Inside Climate News

Debate Flares Over Texas’ Proposed Oil and Gas Waste Rule

By Martha Pskowski

The Cape Fear River has been contaminated with forever chemicals, such as PFAS and 1,4-Dioxane from industrial dischargers upstream. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Nonprofit Law Center Asks EPA to Take Over Water Permitting in N.C.

By Lisa Sorg

Assemblymember Dawn Addis (D-San Luis Obispo) talks about her bill to reaffirm local governments’ authority to regulate oil and gas production at a rally outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento on Monday. Credit: Last Chance Alliance

California Climate and Health Groups Urge Legislators to Pass Polluter Pays Bills

By Liza Gross

Under the final Rock Springs Resource Management Plan, the wildlands surrounding Adobe Town will still be available for oil and gas drilling. Credit: Bob Wick/Bureau of Land Management

In Final Rock Springs Resource Management Plan, BLM Sticks With Conservation Priorities, Renewable Energy Development

By Jake Bolster

An offshore oil drilling rig is seen in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Ron Buskirk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

US District Court Throws Out Federal Agency’s Assessment Allowing More Drilling for Fossil Fuels in the Gulf of Mexico

By Aman Azhar

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