The USDA has become an inefficient monster that often promotes products that are bad for consumers and the environment. Let’s replace it with a Department of Food.

Disease changes urban life. But humans have to decide what shape that change takes.

Behind the scenes at COP26, those representing developing nations said the Biden administration continues the American tradition of intransigence.

As a city of high inequality faces rising tides, the newly elected mayor charts a path to solving both problems simultaneously.

A well-regulated domestic program for recycling lithium batteries could be the key to making renewable energy truly sustainable.

The politics of climate and the politics of care are closely linked. An alliance is overdue.

Humans kill wolves when they want to privatize nature.

An annual ExxonMobil report shows the company routinely giving six-figure sums to Brookings, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and similar institutions.

For the communities already at climate change’s mercy, Governor Roy Cooper’s support for joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is just another top-down management misstep.

The 2022 Florida gubernatorial race is going to be a lesson in how to talk a lot about climate while doing nothing.

Tax credits don’t give people money for solar panels and wind turbines up front. That’s where investors come in.

Landowners who lease their land to gas companies aren’t always pleased with the results.

The oil giant owns a carbon sequestration company that could benefit from the law, allowing BP to play both sides of the emissions ledger.

Are you giving people stuff, or giving companies money to give people stuff?

His infrastructure plan was supposed to be his big shot at climate legislation. It’s not nearly enough.

The centrist policy framed as a win-win on fiscal and environmental sustainability is a red herring.

The U.S. government long knew about lead poisoning in a public housing complex in Indiana and it did nothing—an all-too-familiar combination of federal apathy and structural racism.

Colorado River drought and water supply issues could soon affect 12 percent of Americans.

If Joe Biden wants to expand the railway, he’ll have to learn from historical failures.

Saving the planet starts with saving the communities the fossil fuel industry tends to trample.