 (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post) Trump's Bureau of Land Management headquarters move reduced the number of Black employees in the agency while creating mass vacancies, a new Government Accountability Office report says. By Joshua Partlow ● Read more » | | | | As negotiators praised the compromise, the minister from the low-lying Maldives noted, "It will be too late" for her nation and others most vulnerable to climate impacts. By Brady Dennis and Sarah Kaplan ● Read more » | | | | A new poll finds that recent climate disasters have failed to shift views on global warming. By Darryl Fears and Emily Guskin ● Read more » | | | Katherine Sizov is only two years out of college, but her high-tech sensors — which monitor ethylene, a gas key to the ripening of fruits and vegetables — are keeping watch over 15 percent of U.S. apples By Michael Birnbaum ● Read more » | | | | Supply chain problems and climate change each take a fat slice of holiday pies By Laura Reiley ● Read more » | | | | The study casts further doubt on the environmental credentials of hydrogen produced using fossils fuels, which has been envisioned as a next-generation fuel. By Rachel Pannett ● Read more » | | | | The ban on oil and gas drilling at the sacred tribal site in northwestern New Mexico is one of several steps intended to strengthen the relationship between the federal government and American Indian tribes. By Joshua Partlow and Darryl Fears ● Read more » | | | The National Hockey League touts 'green rinks' while promoting refrigerants that warm the planet, according to an undercover probe by the Environmental Investigation Agency. By Rick Maese ● Read more » | | | | President's trip to opening of GM plant building electric Hummers comes as Congress debates his plan. By Seung Min Kim and Dino Grandoni ● Read more » | | | | The new rules would affect coffee, cocoa, soy, beef, palm oil and wood, along with products made from those materials, such as furniture and chocolate. By Bryan Pietsch ● Read more » | | | | The move on hydrofluorocarbons, which are hundreds of times as potent as carbon dioxide, comes just days after global climate talks wrapped up at COP26. By Dino Grandoni ● Read more » | | | President Biden is unwinding Donald Trump's environmental legacy, while forging his own. The Washington Post is chronicling every step. By Juliet Eilperin, Brady Dennis and John Muyskens ● Read more » | | | | The strategy calls for a "circular economy" approach to recycling, with particular attention to environmental justice and climate impacts. But some say the plan is flawed. By Tik Root ● Read more » | | | | It could be responsible for twice as much carbon as the summits in Madrid and Paris, and four times as much as those in Copenhagen and Durban, South Africa, according to figures compiled by The Washington Post. By William Booth and Harry Stevens ● Read more » | | | | Two young women rappelled off coal-handling machinery in protest of what they say is Australia's climate inaction. By Rachel Pannett ● Read more » | | | | Sebastian Everding, a self-proclaimed "lobbyist for wild bees," has wildflower seeds flowing across Germany, Austria and Belgium By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff ● Read more » | | | COP26 was hailed as coal's "death knell," but China is massively boosting capacity. By Lily Kuo and Michael Birnbaum ● Read more » | | | | Nicola Sturgeon was keen to remind people that Scotland is a semiautonomous nation — and would like to be independent. By Karla Adam ● Read more » | | | | The covid lockdowns are providing Delhi a blueprint to deal with one of the city's most persistent problems. By Gerry Shih ● Read more » | | | | | | |
