July 2024 – Climate Desk

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Vox.com

Wildfires will put even more pressure on the country’s housing crisis

California’s Park Fire displaced thousands of people. What will happen to them?

Li Zhou · July 30, 2024
Inside Climate News

Should companies get paid when governments phase out fossil fuels? They already are.

It's a common part of free trade agreements—the US narrowly avoided a $15 billion claim over the shuttered Keystone XL pipeline.

Nicholas Kusnetz and Katie Surma · July 28, 2024
Guardian

“This used to be a beautiful place:” How the US became the world’s biggest petrostate

No country has ever in history produced as much oil and gas as America now does. And Louisiana is ground zero.

Oliver Milman; photos by Bryan Tarnowski · July 26, 2024
Mother Jones

Bears, fish, and wolves’ new predator: the Supreme Court?

The Chevron ruling might be bad news for wild animals—though not all environmentalists think so.

Jackie Flynn Mogensen · July 24, 2024
Guardian

Kamala Harris could set “new high bar for climate ambition,” advocates say

VP's record strikes a stark contrast with Trump in race for the White House

Oliver Milman · July 23, 2024
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Peak water in an era of climate change

A climate expert weighs in on the status of our most precious resource.

Peter Gleick · July 20, 2024
Grist

What Project 2025 would do to US climate policy

"It's real bad."

Zoya Teirstein · July 19, 2024
Guardian

Some climate groups urge Biden to stand down, fearing a Trump win

"Nominating Biden is a recipe for electing Trump," says founder of Climate Defiance, while other groups stay quiet.

Dharna Noor and Oliver Milman · July 19, 2024
Vox.com

Storm chasing has changed—a lot—since “Twister”

These days, anyone can follow a tornado, but you’ll want to leave that to the professionals

Alex Abad-Santos · July 16, 2024
bioGraphic

The social cost of carbon credits

Multinational firms funded a $4.4 million carbon offset project. Senegalese locals did much of the work—and saw almost none of the money.

Jack Thompson · July 16, 2024
Mother Jones

The problematic chemicals fueling America’s EV revolution

Ramped-up production of toxic "forever chemicals" used in lithium-ion batteries has communities worried.

Craig Welch, Jana Cholakovska, Pooja Sarkar, Alec Gitelman, Emilie Rosso, and Clare Fieseler · July 12, 2024
Vox.com

The US is failing renters during extreme heat waves

Laws require landlords to provide heat. It’s not the same for cooling.

Li Zhou · July 12, 2024