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Scientists have been sounding alarm bells. The catastrophic flooding the nation has experienced in recent years with increasingly alarming frequency — from Los Angeles to Yellowstone National Park to Houston to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Scituate — has a common cause: the rapidly changing climate. In 2021 the Federal Emergency Management Agency took a critical…

The Biden administration on Tuesday moved closer to imposing unprecedented cuts in how much water Arizona, California and Nevada could pull from the Colorado River, while raising the possibility that these reductions could be distributed in ways that contradict long-standing water rights that favor powerful farming regions. In releasing a new environmental review of how…

Jody Freeman, a renowned environmental lawyer at Harvard, is under fire for her ties to the fossil fuel industry. Freeman, a White House adviser under Barack Obama, is founding director of Harvard University’s environmental and energy law program. As co-chair of Harvard’s presidential committee on sustainability, she helps shape the institution’s response to climate change.…

The Rev. Darryl Johnson rejoiced when he received a text message that a deal to sell the remaining 100 acres of the historic Robert Hungerford Preparatory High School property in Eatonville, Florida, fell through a week ago. After hearing the news that a developer dropped out of the controversial plan to buy the land, the…

The Biden administration will soon unveil stringent limits on auto tailpipe pollution, aiming to ensure that as many as two-thirds of all new passenger vehicle sales are electric by 2032, according to three people briefed on the proposal. The Environmental Protection Agency plan — the toughest ever from the EPA on auto emissions — threatens…

The federal government on Tuesday laid out two options for preventing the Colorado River’s depleted reservoirs from falling to critically low levels, saying it could either impose cuts across the Southwest by following the water-rights priority system or by using an across-the-board percentage. The stakes of this decision are high for California, which receives the…

A UN resolution was adopted on Wednesday that should make it easier to hold polluting countries legally accountable for failing to tackle the climate emergency, in a vote which was hailed as a historic victory for climate justice. The UN general assembly adopted by consensus the resolution spearheaded by Vanuatu, a tiny Pacific island nation…

PAJARO, Calif. — It was happening again. A broken levee, a frantic flight from fast-approaching floodwaters. The prospect of losing everything. Nearly 28 years to the day since the first time the Huezo family and hundreds of their neighbors were forced from their homes, the rain-soaked Pajaro River was swallowing this small farming community once…

KETTLEMAN CITY, Calif.  —  Here at the western edge of the Tulare Lake Basin dwells a smelly industrial site the size of 150 football fields. Roughly eight times a day, its operations are replenished with a truckload of human waste from the residents of Los Angeles County. Since 2016, the Tulare Lake Compost facility has…

Last year, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which authorizes sweeping investments and policies to tackle the climate crisis and advance environmental justice. This historic bill invests nearly $3 billion in the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate and Environmental Justice Block Grants, expanding funding for existing environmental justice grant programs and creating new opportunities.…