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Cambridge, Massachusetts, got a surprise warning as it considered a natural gas ban to reduce its climate impact.
By Phil McKenna
With concerns about natural gas's impact on climate change rising, several Massachusetts cities and towns have started exploring outright bans on new natural gas hookups in commercial and residential buildings.
Berkeley, California, passed the first such ban in the country this past summer, and other West Coast cities have since followed with similar restrictions.
But in Massachusetts, as Cambridge discovered on Wednesday, it might be harder—if not impossible—to do.
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The plan, designed to 'reconcile the economy with our planet,' includes a carbon border tax and money for a just transition for poorer Eastern European countries.
By MEHREEN KHAN, FINANCIAL TIMES
The European Union unveiled a sweeping set of environmental initiatives on Wednesday aimed at creating the world's first carbon-neutral continent by 2050, touching everything from state aid rules to a green industrial policy and a carbon border tax on imports.
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For indigenous communities on the Bering Sea, a way of life is at risk as climate change hits fish populations and ricochets through ecosystems.
By Sabrina Shankman
When dead salmon wash ashore along the coast of the Bering Sea, the problem is much bigger than dead fish. It's a sign of deeper trouble cascading through the Arctic's ecosystems.
It's been happening more and more the last few years—fish, dead or dying, rolling in with the tide, said Mellisa Johnson, executive director of the Bering Sea Elders Group. "The seals, they don't want to eat those types of fish. They know they're unhealthy for consumption. So then they don't have enough fat reserves to last them."
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The judge excoriated the New York AG, but also said: 'nothing in this opinion is intended to absolve Exxon from responsibility for contributing to climate change.'
By Nicholas Kusnetz , David Hasemyer
A New York judge has cleared ExxonMobil of allegations that it misled investors about the risks posed to its business by climate regulations, handing the oil giant a major victory in the first trial of a fossil fuel company involving climate change.
Justice Barry Ostrager sided entirely with Exxon on the claims brought against it by the New York Attorney General's Office, saying that he found all the company's witnesses to be truthful and that the state had failed to present any evidence that convincingly cast doubt on their testimony.
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Until this year, the EU's top polluters were mostly coal-fired power plants. But shipping is among the few industries not covered by the Paris climate agreement.
By BETHAN STATON, FINANCIAL TIMES
ICN occasionally publishes Financial Times articles to bring you more international climate reporting.
A ranking of the top 10 corporate polluters in Europe includes a shipping group for the first time, in a sign of how some emissions-heavy industries are escaping the environmental clampdown imposed on others.
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