Polluting Industries Say the Cost of Cleaner Air Is Too High
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is about to announce new regulations governing soot — the particles that trucks, farms, factories, ...
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How Green River celebrates its melon farmers (Melon days) — High Country News – Know the West
During the last weekend of summer, the streets of Green River, Utah were filled with melons. Farmers rapidly chopped slices ...
States opposed tribes’ access to the Colorado River 70 years ago. History is repeating itself. — High Country News – Know the West
This investigation is a collaboration between High Country News and ProPublica. Editor’s note: This article references documents from the 1950s and ’60s that ...
As climate change and high costs plague Alaska’s fisheries, fewer young people take up the trade
KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — Lane Bolich first came to work in Alaska for the freedom and excitement that comes with ...
To protect wild bumblebees, people have to find them first (Where the wild bees are) — High Country News – Know the West
In a sunny meadow just beyond Portland, Oregon’s western sprawl, mounds of white lupine buzzed in the late June heat. ...
California high school offers class credit for climate action
Jesika Gonzalez will tell you that she wasn’t the biggest fan of Porterville, California, while she was growing up. “When ...
Heat denial: influencers question validity of high temperatures | Climate crisis
As thermometers creep upwards, it has become harder and harder to deny the reality of the climate crisis. Some, however, ...
What High Heat in the Classroom Is Doing to Millions of American Children
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Producer Paloma Beltran with Dr. ...
Washington to adopt rules protecting farmworkers from wildfire smoke — High Country News – Know the West
Some labor advocates say they don’t go far enough. As wildfires seized Washington in September of 2020, farmworkers in ...
What Florida’s coral bleaching means as high ocean temperatures continue
Good question. Is it a plant? An animal? The answer is: kind of both.Scientists officially classify corals as a type ...
