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Byline: Victoria St. Martin, Phil McKenna A small Native American reservation in northern Wisconsin is home to the 'Everglades of the North,' a vast wetlands on the shores of Lake [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna LUDINGTON, Mich.-- Boarding the S.S. Badger, a 410-foot freight and passenger ferry that crosses Lake Michigan each summer, is like stepping back in time. A National Historic [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna NEW YORK--As scientists, policymakers and environmental advocates seek to accelerate efforts to address climate change, they're zeroing in on a pollutant long considered the 'forgotten greenhouse gas.' [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna ODANAH, Wis.--'This is the last turn and the end of the fourth hill of life, when Bad River, as a spirit, transforms into something other, something extraordinary,' [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna In a final chapter of his new book, climate scientist Rob Jackson profiles several individuals he considers to be climate heroes. One is Rose Abramoff, a fellow [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna WASHINGTON, D.C.--The first details of a potential, and possibly massive, climate agreement between the U.S. and China were announced at a climate summit at the White House [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna A growing effort by the fossil fuel industry to sell natural gas as a low-carbon fuel is little more than greenwashing, according to a new report by [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--After years of planning and months of drilling, a first-in-the-nation, neighborhood-scale geothermal heating and cooling project came online here on Tuesday. Geothermal energy--using the steady temperature [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna MEDFORD, Mass.--Inside a cinder block office building perhaps best known for the Hindu temple and table tennis club next door, a startup company is testing what may [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna With a pair of fossil-fuel friendly senators at his side, former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on Tuesday released a favorable report on U.S. natural gas and [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna The U.S. Department of Justice weighed in on a federal court case between the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of the Chippewa Indians and [...]

Byline: Lee Hedgepeth, Erin Schulte, Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense, Liza Gross, Phil McKenna ROLAND, Ark.--First came the gasps. As the final sliver of sunlight disappeared behind the persistent moon, eclipse [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna, Liza Gross California emits more sulfuryl fluoride, a potent greenhouse gas and toxic pesticide, than the rest of the lower 48 states combined, a new study concludes. [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna HOUSTON--When U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm addressed oil and gas executives last week at CERAWeek by S&P Global, one of the energy industry's largest conferences, the [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna An ambitious new climate change initiative at MIT's Sloan School of Management seeks to harness the collective knowledge of the university to help tackle the climate crisis [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna A satellite that could soon play a key role in combating climate change by monitoring methane emissions entered Earth's orbit aboard a SpaceX rocket launched from the [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna, Noel Lyn Smith Eleven years after easements for a pipeline buried beneath the Bad River reservation in northern Wisconsin expired, five years after the tribe first sounded [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna 'Let's get sh*t done!' That's the motto of Americans Together, a political organization recently formed by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who kicked off a [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna In her recent memoir, presidential candidate Nikki Haley recounted a telling anecdote about her role in pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2017 [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna A California state grant program designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions results in the direct release of approximately 225,000 to 300,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide into [...]

Byline: Georgina Gustin, Phil McKenna Anyone feeling compelled to look into a bill passed recently by the House of Representatives will see some familiar language. It may seem wonky--the concern [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna The Environmental Protection Agency announced(https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-finalizes-standards-slash-methane-pollution-combat-climate) new regulations at the COP28 global climate summit in Dubai on Saturday that will reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kusnetz, Lee Hedgepeth, Amy Green, Phil McKenna, Dylan Baddour, Aydali Campa, Wyatt Myskow, Marianne Lavelle and Kristoffer Tigue If there is one overarching message from the nation's latest [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna Emissions from the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the U.S. were down slightly in 2022, but thousands of industrial facilities with substantial emissions remain, according to the [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna U.S. chemical manufacturer Honeywell International released chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)--climate super-pollutants and ozone depleting substances that are banned except for limited uses under an international environmental agreement--according to a [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna Apple's recent announcement of its first-ever 'carbon neutral' product was questioned in a new report by a Chinese environmental research organization that gathers and tracks data on [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna Aluminum is crucial for a clean energy economy, but its production is a leading source of greenhouse gas emissions as well as toxic air and water pollution, [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna Federal regulators have sent a proposed safety order to the developers of the contentious and highly politicized Mountain Valley Pipeline citing concerns over potential pipe corrosion and [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna, Georgina Gustin, Peter Aldhous Three years ago, North Dumas Farms was an empty field near the northern edge of the Texas Panhandle. Today it is a massive [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna, Georgina Gustin, Peter Aldhous Forty miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in Southern California's Imperial Valley, the Brandt Company cattle ranch is the largest single point source [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna, Inside Climate News Nearly all refrigerators in use in the United States today use chemical refrigerants that are some of the most potent greenhouse gases on the [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna Two weeks before President Trump was elected President in November 2016, then Secretary of State John Kerry held court in a hotel room in Kigali, Rwanda, to [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna BOSTON--Daevon Walker-Jones and Bia Mazhar stood deep inside a throng of protesters here on Wednesday night united in anger over climate change, racial injustice, a botched pandemic [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna For natural gas pipeline developers hunting for a good deal on a 100-mile section of steel pipe, a recent advertisement claimed to have just what they are [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna Emissions of nitrous oxide, a climate super-pollutant hundreds of times more potent than carbon dioxide, are rising faster than previously thought--at a rate that not only threatens [...]

Byline: Phil McKenna, Lili Pike A Chinese industrial gas company recently took a noteworthy step toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions from chemical plants in China by capturing and reusing waste [...]