Biden Administration Backs Plastic as Coal Replacement to Make Steel. One Critic Asks: ‘Have They Lost Their Minds?’ After a Pennsylvania business scored $182.6 million in loan guarantees with promises the project would fight climate change, environmentalists called on Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to change course. By James Bruggers
In Wisconsin Senate Race, Voters Will Pick Between Two Candidates With Widely Differing Climate Views By Kristoffer Tigue
Wisconsin Environmentalists Campaign Against Amendments Altering Federal Grant Allocation By Lydia Larsen
New Federal Grants Could Slash U.S. Climate Emissions by Nearly 1 Billion Metric Tons Through 2050 By Kristoffer Tigue, Marianne Lavelle
New NOAA Initiative Will Provide $60 Million in Funding to Train Workers for Green Jobs By Ruchi Shahagadkar
Using Less of the Colorado River Takes a Willing Farmer and $45 Million in Federal Funds By Alex Hager, KUNC and Heather Sackett, Aspen Journalism
Toyota Opens a ‘Megasite’ for EV Batteries in a Struggling N.C. Community, Fueled by Biden’s IRA By Nicole Norman
Want to See Community Solar Done Right? A Project in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Can Serve as a Model By Dan Gearino
The Department of Agriculture Rubber-Stamped Tyson’s “Climate Friendly” Beef, but No One Has Seen the Data Behind the Company’s Claim By Georgina Gustin
Q&A: What’s the Deal with Bill Gates’s Wyoming Nuclear Plant? Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth