Crews have begun chainsawing and shredding thousands of protected Joshua trees to make way for a sprawling solar field in the Mojave Desert. Century-old trees become a pile of dust. “Once the trees go through the shredders, they vanish” bit.ly/4dSFEm6

“I thought, Of course we can stop this. It’s a democracy.” Imagine waking up one morning to learn your new neighbor would be a 50 million gallon LNG plant. And that your elected county officials would dismiss your concerns Inside Climate News 1/2 insideclimatenews.org/news/08092024/…

Climate questions usually get short shrift at presidential debates. But my colleagues and I at Inside Climate News did some brainstorming and came up with plenty of tough questions that should be asked tomorrow night. insideclimatenews.org/news/09092024/…

Spotted the school my mom works at on this map. School, of course, has not been canceled. Smoke and ash are in the air, and Mom reports it is smokey in the building.

"We’re going to get our asses sued. Mark my words, we’re going to get sued over this.” Those are the words of a former water district supervisor in Arizona, regarding a plan the district had to build a new water well. He ended up being right. My latest insideclimatenews.org/news/07092024/…

I spoke to workers at the Ultium Cells plant in northeast Ohio to try to figure out if the shift to EVs is good for workers, both in terms of the quantity and quality of jobs: insideclimatenews.org/news/10092024/…

Everyone is trying to make EVs into a political issue this year, except for the workers who are actually making the batteries, as my colleague Dan Gearino Inside Climate News found in Lordstown, Ohio. insideclimatenews.org/news/10092024/…

Just learned that Rio Tinto, one of the world's largest mining conglomerates, starts quarterly earnings calls with a land acknowledgement

The entire city of Wrightwood, California, is under an evacuation order as webcam footage from Mountain High Ski Resort shows the #BridgeFire burning through the resort. Multiple fast-moving wildfires are beginning to impact communities across Southern California.

Nevada is 80% public land, and the Biden-Harris admin has pushed solar. Sprawling solar panel installations have become a hot issue in the Senate race pitting climate goals against landscape preservation. From the indelible Wyatt Myskow for Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/11092024/…

NEW on Searchlight New Mexico: It's the most powerful public body you've never heard of. Members of the Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham-appointed NM Racing Commission broker power and cut business deals with the very people they're appointed to oversee. By Noah Raess and yours truly 🧵 searchlightnm.org/racehorses-slo…

In November’s election, Nevadans will vote between two U.S. Senate candidates with vastly different climate and energy positions — particularly regarding solar energy. Via Inside Climate News: thenevadaindependent.com/article/in-nev…

INVESTIGATION: Exposes multiple instances of alleged human smuggling by former Arizona Christian University football players who were arrested by Border Patrol and released without criminal charges.” Stunning revelations by Jason Wolf🐺🌵 via azcentral azcentral.com/story/sports/c…

Fish Talk With Wyatt. (aka I spoke with the folks Western Priorities about the Devil's Hole pupfish and how it's united a community against a proposed mine near Ash Meadows in Nevada) streaming wherever you find your podcasts. or read the story here: insideclimatenews.org/news/15072024/…

Ten years ago, California adopted landmark legislation aimed at curbing chronic overpumping of groundwater. As the state works toward the goals of SGMA, major challenges remain. "What we do in these next years is critical." latimes.com/environment/st…

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes calls for immediate action after azcentral investigation reveals "astronomical" death rate in Maricopa County jails azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

The EPA has directed Wyoming to redo a plan to reduce pollution from several of its fossil fuel power plants after the state proposed taking no further action. The agency's goal? Protecting views in national parks across the West. insideclimatenews.org/news/17092024/…

“It is no longer in doubt for us that most of the global land will experience an increase in dry extremes in the future.” New study on drought being underestimated in major climate reports also IDs Southwest US states as a drought hotspot. From Bob Berwyn insideclimatenews.org/news/18092024/…

Here's how those things ended up for climate regions this meteorological summer (Jun/Jul/Aug). The Southwest (AZ/UT/CO/NM) had their hottest summer on record (130 years of record). #azwx