Today s young people will struggle most with the affects of climate change, and a New Mexico youth group brings its concerns to the streets of Albuquerque this week. The United Nations hosts its Sustainable Development Goals summit in New York City next week. Some 2,000 miles away, Jonathon Juarez, an organizer with the group Youth United for Climate Crisis Action or YUCCA, said frontline communities in New Mexico pay the price daily for the state s record surplus of oil and gas. .
By John Carey for the National Academy of Science.Broadcast version by Suzanne Potter for California News Service reporting for the Pulitzer Center-Public News Service Collaboration. Methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases, is the major component of the biogas that seeps from countless landfills and wastewater plants. It makes sense, then, to prevent that methane from escaping into the atmosphere—indeed, hundreds of solid waste facilities across the United States have done so for decades, either flaring the biogas to burn off the methane or burning the biogas to generate electricity or heat. .
When a group of Midwestern Republicans marched into the office of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, it wasn’t spending cuts they wanted to talk about. They were on a mission to preserve billions of dollars in federal support for biofuels and ethanol.
House Republicans are touting their debt limit package as a first step toward fiscal restraint. They say it’s past time for Congress to reduce the swelling deficits that they say
House Republicans are touting their debt limit package as a first step toward fiscal restraint. They say it's past time for Congress to reduce the swelling deficits that they say are threatening the fiscal health of the country.