Climate Change

"Major businesses and their lobbying groups have seized on a set of recent Supreme Court decisions that sharply limit the government’s regulatory powers, aiming to advance dozens of lawsuits that could invalidate a vast array of federal climate, education, health and labor rules."

"Ten states are gearing up to elect the legal officials who will duke it out in court on their behalf on issues such as the nation’s response to climate change and the transition to renewable fuels."

"Russian and Chinese-linked influence actors and the Cuban government have been amplifying misinformation following two deadly U.S. hurricanes, including false claims that the U.S. was denying disaster relief claims, a U.S. official said on Monday."

"At least 1,800 bots on the social media site X are promoting the controversial choice of Azerbaijan, a major oil and gas producer, to host next month’s U.N. Climate Change Conference known as COP29, according to a new analysis shared exclusively with The Washington Post."

"For this October, the month before the presidential election, Yale Climate Connections has identified enough timely titles to fill two bookshelves: one on climate action, the other on electoral politics."

"Almost nothing stood in the way of the pounding waves that crashed into seaside homes in Staten Island’s Tottenville neighborhood when Superstorm Sandy struck the city 12 years ago.... But after years of work, a system of artificial reefs largely completed this summer could help soften the blow of future hurricanes."

"Wind-strewn dust from California’s lithium-rich, shrinking Salton Sea may be triggering respiratory issues in children who live nearby, a new study has found."

"More than a third of the world’s tree species are threatened with extinction, according to the first comprehensive assessment of trees by the world’s leading scientific authority on the status of species."