October 2023 – Climate Desk

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Mainers see promise in ballot initiative to create a statewide nonprofit electric utility

The state’s shareholder-owned utilities have outspent its supporters nearly 30 to 1 to stop it.

Annie Ropeik · October 30, 2023
Inside Climate News

Study explores how toxic chemicals are ‘stealing children’s future potential’

Children of color are not only exposed to more dangerous substances but also experience disproportionate harm to their brain development.

Victoria St. Martin · October 26, 2023
Mother Jones

EPA promised to address environmental racism. Then conservatives struck back.

It’s part of an effort to end decades-old federal policy by redefining what counts as discrimination.

Yvette Cabrera, Jamie Smith Hopkins and Grey Morgan · October 26, 2023
Inside Climate News

Pennsylvania’s gas industry used 160 million pounds of secret chemicals from 2012 to 2022

Researchers say unidentified additives may have included “forever chemicals” linked to serious health problems.

Jon Hurdle · October 25, 2023
Guardian

‘There’s still beauty’: a national park bounces back after California’s biggest single fire

The recovering ecosystem of Lassen Volcanic national park offers lessons on how to protect public lands in a climate crisis era

Dani Anguiano · October 23, 2023
Inside Climate News

In Florida, Gen Z activists step into the fight against sugarcane burning

Every year, farmers in South Florida set fire to more than 400,000 acres of sugarcane fields pre-harvest, creating a “black snow” of ash and soot that falls on the low-income communities nearby.

Michelle Mairena and Kyndall Hubbard · October 23, 2023
Mother Jones

The climate crisis has hit pharmacies

Drug supply chains are built for profit, not resilience. Will lawmakers act?

Julia Métraux · October 20, 2023
Grist

To obscure the risks of gas stoves, utilities borrowed from Big Tobacco’s playbook

Industry-funded research downplayed health hazards as far back as 1974, documents show.

Kate Yoder · October 19, 2023
Grist

Climate change has toppled some civilizations but not others. Why?

The link between environmental disasters and societal collapse, explained.

Kate Yoder · October 18, 2023
Inside Climate News

Coal Communities fear Justice40 excludes them from clean energy funds

As they compete for federal grants, it’s reigniting debate over which communities should be considered “disadvantaged.”

Kristoffer Tigue · October 18, 2023
Grist

Marco temporal: The anti-Indigenous theory that just won’t die

A recent effort by Brazilian lawmakers would be a disaster for Indigenous land claims and efforts to protect the Amazon rainforest.

Lyric Aquino · October 18, 2023
Guardian

UAW says workers at GM battery plants will be covered by contract

As the autoworkers’ union grapples with the big three automakers for a contract, it expands its coverage to electric vehicle workers

Dharna Noor · October 16, 2023