As climate change turbocharges temperatures, more workers across the country will face stifling conditions with deadly consequences. A POLITICO and E&E News investigation reveals how difficult setting a national standard to protect them could be.
There is a growing sense that the state is creating Flex Alert fatigue by making the asks too frequently, on days when easing air conditioner usage is most uncomfortable.
There was a time when rural Guatemalans never left home. But back to back hurricanes, failed crops and extreme poverty are driving them to make the dangerous trek north to the U.S. border.
The European Union’s leadership is set to unveil a proposal on Wednesday to tax imports from countries — including the U.S. — that lack aggressive carbon-reducing policies.
The population is fleeing, jobs are disappearing and coal isn’t coming back. West Virginia’s boldest plan to reverse the slide is bribing white-collar workers to move from out of state.
That threat to Latinos has grown in the past decade, and they are twice as likely to live in areas most threatened by wildfires relative to the overall U.S. population.
Governor Kate Brown warned that events like the Pacific Northwest heat wave could be a "harbinger of things to come" if politicians do not urgently confront the issue of climate change.
The painkiller, taken by half of pregnant women worldwide, could be contributing to rising rates of reproductive system problems and neurodevelopmental disorders like ADHD and autism.
"If we look at the rate of carbon emissions, most is emitted by the developed and industrialized countries, but the problem is poor countries like Bangladesh are the main sufferers."
