Inside Climate News

As Nepal’s mountains warm, Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are spreading dengue, once strictly a lowland disease in the tropical Terai region, to higher-elevation, densely-populated areas like the Kathmandu Valley. insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

Germany launches voluntary “Global SF6 Pledge” to curb emissions of the world’s most potent greenhouse gas. Success will hinge on pollution mitigation in China, which releases more than half of global sulfur hexafluoride emissions. insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

A grassroots effort to normalize a local, sustainable food oil in Pennsylvania. insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

In Florida, Republicans maintained a weakened grip on state politics. How will that affect policies on issues such as climate change? insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

Fears over air quality and greenhouse gas emissions have plagued plans for a natural gas plant outside Iowa’s second-largest population center. insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

Will emboldened Democrats reject a bipartisan permitting reform bill that would speed up construction of energy projects? insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

The election was transformative for statehouses, with Democrats gaining ground all over the map. This signals significant movement on climate and energy policy. insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

Lauren Pagel, policy director at nonprofit Earthworks, called the midterm results “a rebuke of Trump.” insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

Need further evidence that energy affordability, clean energy and data centers played major roles in last night's blue wave? Look no further than Georgia’s energy regulator, which Democrats flipped for the first time in 30 years. insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

From energy costs to data centers, climate concerns formed part of the backdrop to Cait Conley’s victory over Mike Lawler in New York’s Lower Hudson Valley. insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

In the home of the nation’s oil and gas industry, long controlled by Republicans, a fleet of new Democratic state leaders could ignite a wave of environmental reform in Texas. insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

The Democratic wave overcame millions of dollars that the tech industry, led by Elon Musk, invested in maintaining Republican control and their unregulated status quo. Now, the industry will likely be a key target of Congressional scrutiny. insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

A plan to raise thousands of homes in and around Miami, aimed at preventing future flooding, could face opposition from residents. insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

If Democrats succeed in winning the Pennsylvania state Senate for the first time since 1993, energy and environmental reform could follow. insideclimatenews.org/news/2…

Voters in Senate battlegrounds want more climate talk, not less, by 59 percent to 17 percent. Candidates went quiet anyway. Here’s why, and what it could cost. insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

The EPA says it’s ending “uncertainty” for farmers. But a new decision means a lot less certainty about factory farm air pollution. insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

The number of buildings across the contiguous United States threatened by wildfires could almost triple by 2060, according to a new study, if the country continues to ignore the perils of climate change, mismanage its forests and build homes in places where large fires naturally occur. insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

Two Indigenous leaders from Brazil traveled into Ecuador’s Amazon to learn from people who once faced an oil company on their own territory—and forced it out. insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

Extreme heat raises the risk that domestic violence escalates. Hurricanes destroy the shelters survivors flee to. Florida is getting both, and the state no longer reports the data that would show it. insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

A family sold 87 acres for $10 “to be held in trust for future use as a parkland.” Later, the economic development arm of Taylor, Texas, sold it to a data center developer for $10 million. insideclimatenews.org/news/0…