The International Energy Agency moved up the date when it expects oil demand to peak to before 2030. Electric vehicle growth is a big part of the reason.

In a major win for community members in South Memphis, Tennessee, a facility emitting a toxic air pollutant—ethylene oxide (EtO)—announced late last month that it will close its doors. UCS featured the facility in its analysis earlier this year of the public health threat EtO poses to communities across the country. The facility in question,

In the hottest summer on record, only some had means to escape brutal heat.

Climate denial disinformation surged on X, formerly known as Twitter, after Musk takeover.

Like many other public-serving institutions throughout society, electricity and gas utilities are facing calls to be more equitable in their operations, planning, and treatment of customers. But exactly what is energy equity and what does it mean for utilities to address energy equity directly or consider energy justice more broadly in their work? Energy equity

With $369 billion in funding for climate from the IRA, we must focus on equity and justice right from the start.

The food and farm bill that is about to expire had good and bad qualities. Congress can do better with the next bill.

Systemic racism rooted in Jim Crow era policies has cost Black farmers an estimated $326 billion in land lost because it was inherited without a legal will or title.

California is the first major fossil fuel-producing state to file a climate accountability lawsuit.

Regulatory scientists should focus on better protecting overburdened communities from pollution and environmental harms of nuclear materials.

The decision is a failure to engage with the urgency of the climate threat.

Alarmingly, about half the people exposed to wildfires in Washington and Oregon were those least able to afford to protect their homes, evacuate safely and recover.