Environment

Protecting publicly owned federal lands essential for reaching net-zero emissions

April 28, 2021 By Kaya Axelsson, Kate Cullen And Stephen Lezak

American public lands already sequester 250 million tons of carbon dioxide each year - equal to all commercial flights. More can be done.

Japanese Communists denounce plan to dump radiation-tainted water into ocean

April 22, 2021 By Shimbun Akahata

The contaminated water is left over from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Ambitious Earth Day target: Biden announces 50% emissions cut

April 22, 2021 By John Bachtell

“It’s a massive investment in people and recognition that climate change is about human beings,” according to White House climate advisor Gina McCarthy.

Unions, lawmakers, Biden administration unite on carbon capture as a job creator

April 20, 2021 By PAI

Absent: Any mention of the Green New Deal.

New satellite network to locate and monitor methane super-emitters

April 16, 2021 By Climate Nexus

Between 2016 and 2018, using airplane-based instruments, scientists found 600 "super-emitters" were to blame for more than one-third of the state's methane pollution.