Inside Climate News

3 days ago | insideclimatenews.org | Lisa Sorg

RED SPRINGS, N.C.—Early one evening this April, Kim Overstreet had just turned off the stove when she heard a boom. The panel box in the kitchen swung open and fuses shot out of their holders, bouncing off the fridge. Less than a block away, Debra Duncan’s robot vacuum bolted off its charging station toward her, trailed by a blue flame. In a home across the street, a light bulb exploded near a teenage boy, showering him in glass shards.

6 days ago | insideclimatenews.org | Dennis Pillion

Alabama environmental regulators have agreed to update standards used to limit the amounts of 12 toxic and carcinogenic substances in the state’s waterways, a move that clean water advocates say will help protect those who fish and swim in Alabama’s rivers. Seven Alabama environmental groups petitioned the state’s Environmental Management Commission to update those standards in April, and that petition was approved at the June 13 commission meeting.

6 days ago | insideclimatenews.org | Katie Surma

It was an audacious moment. During a recent government hearing, allies of former President Jair Bolsonaro berated Brazil’s environment and climate minister, telling Marina Silva she was “hindering our country’s development,” didn’t deserve respect and should “know your place.”“You just want me to be a submissive woman,” Silva replied.

1 week ago | insideclimatenews.org | Arcelia Martin

John Belizaire says he has a secret hiding in plain sight. But before revealing it, the CEO of Soluna, a green data center development firm headquartered in Albany, New York, asks people to picture the last time they drove through a gusty stretch of countryside and saw wind turbines in the distance. But when they zoom into that frame, he asks, did they notice that not all of those turbines were spinning despite it being windy? It’s not typically because they’re broken, Belizaire said.

1 week ago | insideclimatenews.org | Anna Mattson

The Jones Road fire in New Jersey scorched 15,300 acres for nearly three weeks this spring. Its sickly orange haze vanished hours after the blaze was doused, but a stench from the blackened landscape, including parts of the Pine Barrens, lingered for days. New Jersey public health experts now are trying to understand what, if any, health risks are hidden in the smoke from wildfires, whether they originate at home or faraway forests.