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Biden his time: how the US president is failing on the climate crisis

After the Trump administration gutted environmental agencies and abandoned the Paris agreement, Biden’s climate legacy is starting to take shape – and it doesn’t look good

Emily Holden

16, Feb, 2022 @5:21 PM

Solar pushback: how US power firms try to make people pay for going green

In states such as Kansas, energy companies are seeking to impose financial charges on people who install rooftop solar arrays

Haines Eason for the New Territory and Emily Holden for Floodlight

13, May, 2021 @11:00 AM

The young people taking their countries to court over climate inaction

Children and young adults around the world are demanding action from governments on global heating and the ecological crisis

Matthew Taylor, Emily Holden, Dan Collyns, Michael Standaert and Ashifa Kassam

07, May, 2021 @8:21 AM

Why won’t this giant oil pipeline reveal its secret backers?

Expansion will stretch hundreds miles and is fiercely opposed by numerous groups – but despite repeated calls the Canadian government has not forced the pipeline reveal its insurers

Carl Meyer for Canada's National Observer and Emily Holden for Floodlight

04, May, 2021 @10:00 AM

New Mexico fights to escape powerful grip of big oil and gas

New Mexico seeks to become an economy less reliant on oil and gas, but the extractive industries continue to exert their might on the state and its people

Cody Nelson in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Emily Holden for Floodlight

23, Apr, 2021 @9:00 AM

Banks pledge to fight climate crisis – but their boards have deep links with fossil fuels

Analysis finds 77% of directors on boards of seven US banks have ties to ‘climate-conflicted’ groups

Emily Holden for Floodlight and Emily Atkin for Heated

07, Apr, 2021 @4:01 AM

Natural but deadly: huge gaps in US rules for wood-stove smoke exposed

The government spent millions subsidizing new wood heaters supposed to burn more cleanly. But an investigation has discovered critical flaws

Liz Ruskin in Fairbanks for Alaska Public Media and Emily Holden for Floodlight

16, Mar, 2021 @3:30 PM

Republicans new favorite study trashes Biden's climate plans – but who's behind it?

Wyoming representative Liz Cheney says the study proves Biden’s policies would destroy state economies. But it has the oil and gas industry’s fingerprints all over it

Emily Holden for Floodlight and Cooper McKim for Wyoming Public Media

09, Mar, 2021 @11:00 AM

A Texas city had a bold new climate plan – until a gas company got involved

The fossil fuel industry is using the same playbook to fight city climate plans around the country

Emily Holden , Amal Ahmed for the Texas Observer and Brendan Gibbons for San Antonio Report

01, Mar, 2021 @11:00 AM

More than 25m drink from the worst US water systems, with Latinos most exposed

Guardian investigation shows systems in Latino areas violate federal drinking water rules twice as much as those serving the rest of the US

Emily Holden, Caty Enders, Niko Kommenda and Vivian Ho

26, Feb, 2021 @11:00 AM

Trump’s California water plan troubled federal biologists. They were sidelined

Exclusive: Although scientists recommended otherwise, Trump officials favored political allies over endangered wildlife, internal emails show

Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler for the Sacramento Bee and Jimmy Tobias and Emily Holden for the Guardian

13, Feb, 2021 @10:45 AM

Trump auction of oil leases in Arctic refuge attracts barely any bidders

Coastal plain was up for sale as part of the Trump administration’s plan to pay for Republicans’ tax cuts with oil revenue

Emily Holden in Washington

06, Jan, 2021 @8:33 PM

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