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. .
Community groups across the U.S. are making their way to New York City for the March to End Fossil Fuels - including some from Connecticut. The Connecticut Citizen Action Group will join the protest, calling on President Joe Biden to end subsidies for fossil fuels. .
New York environmental organizations are looking for a truce in the international trade wars. They re backing what they call a "climate peace clause" - an agreement to halt the practice of making trade-based attacks on climate policies. This comes after the European Union and other nations threatened trade restrictions on clean vehicles and other parts of President Joe Biden s Inflation Reduction Act. .
Colorado wants to reduce climate pollution from apartments and commercial buildings 50,000 square feet and larger, but there is growing concern retrofitting buildings could exacerbate the state s affordable housing crisis if costs are passed along to tenants. Jennifer Gremmert, president and CEO of Energy Outreach Colorado, said as climate mitigation funding becomes available from the Inflation Reduction Act and other sources, it is important to ensure protections for families already struggling to pay their utilities and rent. "We re optimistic about a lot of funding coming in," Gremmert noted. " .