September 2025 – Climate Desk

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Mother Jones

RFK Jr. promised to take on plastic. Now he’s part of an administration embracing it.

Plastic is everywhere—including in us.

Jackie Flynn Mogensen · September 29, 2025
Canary Media

Plug-in solar bills are in the works in New Hampshire and Vermont

DIY “balcony” solar kits, which can save residents money and give them more independence, are piquing interest from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

Sarah Shemkus · September 28, 2025
High Country News

The dismantling of the Forest Service

The Trump administration’s plans would remake the agency and public lands. The deadline to comment is Sept. 30.

Jonathan Thompson · September 26, 2025
Canary Media

Utilities are doing even worse on climate than they were five years ago

Major U.S. utilities earn an “F” on a new report card because they’re planning to build far too little clean energy and far too many gas-fired power plants.

Jeff St. John · September 24, 2025
Vox.com

Inside Texas’s grand laboratory of dangerous mosquitoes

While the rest of the country turned a blind eye to ancient disease threats, these scientists leaned in.

Umair Irfan · September 22, 2025
Guardian

Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’

Researchers from Imperial College London say 16,500 deaths caused by hot weather brought on by greenhouse gases

Ajit Niranjan · September 21, 2025
Grist

Republicans are using an arcane oversight rule to permanently dismantle federal land protections

Republican lawmakers want to use the Congressional Review Act to permanently erase federal land use plans in Alaska — and beyond.

Lois Parshley · September 20, 2025
Guardian

US senator calls on big oil to disclose suspected lobbying over Trump plan to axe key climate rule

Senate committee investigates suspected push that led administration to overturn EPA’s endangerment finding

Damian Carrington · September 18, 2025
Mother Jones

Trump’s war on wind power has one very big exception

The president’s sons are using scarce clean energy to mine for bitcoins.

Russ Choma · September 16, 2025
Canada's National Observer

Ontario commits millions toward North America’s first battery-grade cobalt refinery

China currently controls the vast majority of the refining capacity for this key EV component.

Abdul Matin Sarfraz · September 15, 2025
High Country News

Resistance to data centers rises on the border

In Doña Ana County, New Mexico, residents have long struggled to access clean water. Now, developers plan to spend $165 billion on a massive data center complex.

Annie Rosenthal · September 13, 2025
Grist

How do we feed billions without wrecking the planet? A Q&A about our food systems.

From fermented fungi to gene-edited pesticides, Michael Grunwald explores innovative solutions to boost food production while protecting the planet in his latest book.

Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco · September 12, 2025