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1 month ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Spencer Hsu |Maxine Joselow |Nicolás Rivero
FBI agents this week questioned Environmental Protection Agency employees regarding a Biden administration grant program for climate and clean-energy projects, escalating a criminal probe that already caused one veteran prosecutor to resign, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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2 months ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Dan Keating |Maxine Joselow |Nicolás Rivero |Amudalat Ajasa |Evan Halper
More than two weeks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order pausing tens of billions of dollars in federal climate spending, the funding freeze is continuing to cause chaos and confusion for states and nonprofit groups across the country, despite lingering questions about its legality.
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2 months ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Maxine Joselow |Nicolás Rivero
More than 160 solar energy executives will converge Wednesday on Capitol Hill for what the clean-energy industry is describing as its largest-ever lobbying blitz. And they’ll tailor their pitch for a new audience: President Donald Trump and his political allies. The executives will sport surprising accessories: lapel pins with the message “AMERICAN ENERGY DOMINANCE” below an image of the sun rising over a solar panel.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Nicolás Rivero
It is a great irony of American life that we celebrate Thanksgiving - a holiday meant to commemorate a group of people who narrowly escaped starving to death - by wasting more food than on nearly any other day of the year. On a typical day, U.S. households throw out roughly 230 million pounds of food, according to data from ReFed, an American nonprofit that aims to reduce food waste. This Thanksgiving, ReFed estimates that number will rise to 316 million pounds.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Nicolás Rivero |Emily Wright
SAPPORO, Japan - Ocean winds whip across the beaches, hillsides and sprawling plains of Hokkaido. There’s enough wind energy here for Japan’s northernmost island to power itself and export clean electricity to the rest of the country. But Hokkaido can’t harness all of that power unless it has a way to store energy when breezes are blowing and use it later when the gusts die down.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Nicolás Rivero
Every year, Americans buy tens of millions of decorative pumpkins to carve, paint and display for Halloween. When you throw those pumpkins out, they wind up in the landfill, where they rot and release methane, an extra-powerful planet-warming gas. How scary might those pumpkin emissions be? In 2022, the United States harvested about 2 billion pounds of pumpkins destined to be sold whole (not processed, canned ormade into pie or bread) according to data from the Agriculture Department.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Nicolás Rivero
Donations are organized at Colaborativa La Milpa's disaster response warehouse. (Camille Nevárez-Hernandez)By Nicolás RiveroOctober 22, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDTASHEVILLE, N.C. — Edna Alviter stands in the eye of Hurricane Helene recovery. Behind her towers a mountain of donated clothes, stuffed in garbage bags and piled more than six feet high. In front of her stand nearly 20 volunteers, ranging in age from their 20s to their 60s, chattering in a mix of English and Spanish.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Allyson Chiu |Nicolás Rivero
Extreme WeatherWeatherClimateCapital Weather GangEnvironmentClimate LabHurricanesExtreme WeatherWeatherClimateCapital Weather GangEnvironmentClimate LabHurricanesExperts say when, or if, schools reopen will not only determine how families and school staff recover, but also how battered communities bounce back.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Nicolás Rivero
A woman, who is undocumented, on the front porch of her home, which was flooded and full of mud after Hurricane Helene. (Allison Joyce for The Washington Post)By Nicolás RiveroOctober 17, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. EDTMARION, N.C. — A family of four who lost everything in Hurricane Helene came looking for help. A dad in tan work boots and a faded baseball cap. A mom with dark hair tied back away from her tired eyes. A boy in a Spider-Man tank top.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Allyson Chiu |Nicolás Rivero |Molly Hennessy-Fiske
Ben Phillips scoops mud out a window of his house in Marshall, N.C., on Tuesday in the wake of Hurricane Helene. (Jeff Roberson/AP)By Allyson Chiu, Nicolás Rivero and Molly Hennessy-FiskeOctober 3, 2024 at 11:49 a.m. EDTAs Thursday began in the mountain towns of western North Carolina, it remained a challenge to get through washed-out roads and across crumbled bridges — meaning crews were still trying to reach remote areas devastated by Helene.
