Hard hats are back. So is “beautiful, clean” coal. President Trump signed four executive orders on Tuesday to try to bolster the country’s declining coal industry, including the lifting of restrictions on mining and burning […]
Tag: Global Warming
Finding Positive Climate News, One State at a Time
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. On a warm, sunny day last July, Cara Buckley traipsed through a former hog farm […]
How Climate Change Could Make Homes Disappear
Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll look at how one consequence of climate change, coastal flooding, could make New York’s housing shortage worse. We’ll also get details on testimony by Columbia University’s former interim president, […]
‘Getting Heavier’: Climate Change Primes Storms to Drop More Rain
The severe storm system that has inundated the central and southeastern United States with heavy rain and high winds for days fits into a broader pattern in recent decades of increasing rainfall across the eastern […]
Trump Tariffs May Make It Too Expensive to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’
President Trump’s tariffs are posing a major barrier to his plans to expand U.S. oil production — or, in his words, “drill, baby, drill.” Since the tariffs were announced last week, oil prices have fallen […]