Climate

For Jingjing Zhang, this work isn’t about money. She’s never chased contingency fees or the kind of fame some crusading lawyers seek. Her rewards are quieter: a nonprofit salary, the trust of community partners, fragile progress. “I believe every case is a step forward,” she said during a recent interview. “Even if we lose, we show people that the law can be a tool for them — that they have rights.”

In Srinagar’s famous Dal Lake area, climate change is changing the lifestyles of subsistence farmers and fishers, causing women who rely on these resources to pick up needlework to generate income.

Budget cuts at federal agencies such as NOAA doesn't just impact employees, but puts the millions who rely on their essential services at risk.

At the halfway point of the Feed-in Tariff program, Hong Kong’s solar energy production still lags behind most developed countries or regions.

Unlike the 2022 plan, the proposed extension doesn’t include any pre-approved rate hikes, but there’s a catch. Georgia Power signaled it will file a separate rate case in 2026 to recover an estimated $860 million in storm costs, mostly due to Hurricane Helene, from its 2.7 million customers. It will also file a case to recover fuel costs from customers by February 2026. If the PSC agrees, that could further raise consumers’ power bills. 

As people migrate to urban areas in search of a better lifestyle, cattle-rearing, prevalent in rural Nepal, is declining. As a result, three decades in, biogas’s impact on the country remains up in the air.

गुणस्तरीय जीवनको खोजीमा मानिसहरू शहरी क्षेत्रतर्फ पलायन हुँदै गर्दा नेपालका ग्रामिण भेगमा भने पशुपालन कार्य क्रमस: कम हुँदै गएको छ ।यसको परिणामस्वरूप, तीन दशक बितिसक्दा पनि, बायोग्यासको प्रभाव देशमा अझै अनिश्चित अवस्थामा छ। 

A rainbow coalition of Texas Coastal Bend residents tried every tool in the regulatory process to stop the crude oil export industry. Did they ever have agency?

A playing field tilted towards regional officials, Texas Republicans, and foreign energy companies turned sleepy Ingleside on the Bay, Texas, into the Crude Oil Export Terminal of the United States, and did local residents in. 

Three export terminals that captured half of the U.S. crude oil export industry have formed around Ingleside on the Bay, turning the Texas Coastal Bend town into an unlikely fenceline community.