Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. Lawsuits accuse State Farm of secretly working to cut insurance payouts

   Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:21:00 -0000

   The storm swept into Tulsa County, Okla., around dinnertime on May 21, 2024, hammering people's houses with hail the size of golf balls. It was so loud that when a neighbor called Tim Willard, he couldn't make out what they were saying on the phone. Afterward, Willard walked outside his home to see …

2. Trump Administration Will Pay More Energy Firms to Cancel Wind Farms

   Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:40:22 -0000

   In exchange, the companies will invest in oil and gas projects, echoing an earlier deal with the French energy giant TotalEnergies. The Trump administration will pay energy companies hundreds of millions of dollars to abandon their plans to build two wind farms off the U.S. coast, the Interior …

3. The War in Iran Is Causing China to Sell So Many Solar Panels That Your Jaw Will Drop

   Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:01:00 -0000

   Look on the bright side. The ongoing war on Iran may have drastically reduced the amount of oil passing from West Asia to the rest of the world, but …

4. Here’s what we know about the climate cost of white trails aircraft leave in the sky

   Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:10:19 -0000

   Contrails, short for condensation trails, are the white streaks often seen in the sky behind aircraft. The international cloud atlas, which …

5. EPA chief Lee Zeldin slams ‘uninformed’ Democrat lawmaker who suggested he drink weed killer during heated congressional hearing

   Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:20:39 -0000

   EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin slammed Rep. Rosa DeLauro for being “uninformed” Monday after the Connecticut Democrat completely lost it and suggested …

6. 'We represent a new force': Nearly 60 nations push ahead with fossil fuel exit

   Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:28:40 -0000

   Some 60 countries are gathering in the coastal city of Santa Marta in Colombia to tackle an issue that has deadlocked UN climate talks: how to exist fossil fuels. It's the first global conference of its kind, bringing together nations that want to accelerate a fossil fuel phaseout, despite a …

7. This Supreme Court 'victory' for oil giants is not what it seems

   Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:30:00 -0000

   A recent ruling puts $745 million to restore Louisiana's coastline in doubt. But the effort to get Chevron and other oil majors to pay is far from …

8. Is oil king again? China’s surging cleantech exports show the opposite is true

   Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:13:26 -0000

   Over the last two months, nations have scrambled to shore up oil supplies as the Iran war prevented oil tankers moving through the Strait of …

9. The MAHA movement is mad about glyphosate and Trump's EPA

   Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   In a sign of the simmering discontent within the Make America Healthy Again coalition, some of its most visible figures rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, lobbing criticism at the Trump administration for siding with a pesticide-maker. Inside, the justices were hearing arguments in a …

10. We Are Bombarding America’s Forests With Roundup

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:30:00 -0000

    Data reporting by Melissa LewisIn remote Northeast California, about 10 miles outside the lumber mill town of Chester and a half-hour’s drive from …

11. Canada's Arctic noise is no party for narwhals

    Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:01:42 -0000

    Known as the "unicorns of the sea," narwhals are fleeing Canada's far north. Researchers suspect a link to noise pollution from increasing ship …

12. Waymos Aren’t Going to Solve Traffic Deaths

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Boosters paint a future in which driverless vehicles drastically improve road safety. The reality looks pretty different. Every week, it seems, Waymos …

13. Toxic chemicals are raising infertility in humans, fish, birds, and insects: ‘A whisper that is powerful enough to redirect a hurricane’

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:29:32 -0000

    Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that fertility rates, the average number of births women are projected …

14. Top Trump official ignites heated exchange after stumping House Dem on landmark SCOTUS case

    Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:00:16 -0000

    Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., the ranking member on the House Appropriations Committee, got into a heated exchange with Lee Zeldin, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday over whether she was familiar with precedents governing the EPA’s mission. "You’re upset that you …

15. Supreme Court grapples with multibillion-dollar wave of lawsuits over Roundup cancer claims

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:08:54 -0000

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed divided Monday over whether to block thousands of lawsuits alleging the maker of the weedkiller Roundup failed to warn people it could cause cancer. The case came before the justices after a tidal wave of litigation that included some multibillion-dollar …

16. Wildfires are torching state budgets

    Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0000

    Oregonians buying nicotine pouches like Zyn and Rogue were met with a surprise at the cash register starting this year. Each tin had new 65-cent tax …

17. Peter Raven dies; Missouri Botanical Garden president was named a ‘Hero for the Planet’

    Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0000

    Peter Raven, a world-renowned botanist who is credited with the dual achievements of elevating the Missouri Botanical Garden to an internationally …

18. The Colonial Bungalow: Combatting Climate & Creating Separation

    Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:56:56 -0000

    With its thick walls, high ceilings, large rooms, and wide verandahs, the colonial bungalow was constructed to meet the challenges of hot climates. …

19. Trump administration to pay 2 more companies to walk away from US offshore wind leases

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:45:22 -0000

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced two more payouts Monday for energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects under development. Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind have agreed to end their offshore wind leases in exchange for reimbursements totaling nearly $900 …

20. How the Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the E.P.A.

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:16:21 -0000

    The agency’s prestigious research office spent decades doing scientific work insulated from political pressure. Now it’s being dismantled. For more than a half-century, a prestigious scientific arm of the federal government did groundbreaking research aimed at saving American lives. It studied …

21. The world is getting too hot to feed itself

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:45:00 -0000

    A new U.N. report maps how extreme heat is tearing through every layer of the global food system — and mostly overlooks the people at the heart of it. …

22. Former president of Costa Rica on de-risking fertilizer shocks: how $700 billion in subsidies can do more

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:33:47 -0000

    In 2022, my final year in office, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent fertilizer prices surging several-fold, and farmers across Central America—and …

23. Thousands of People Say Roundup Caused Their Cancer. The Supreme Court May Quash Their Lawsuits.

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:43:29 -0000

    The case centers around the regulation of glyphosate, the world’s most commonly used herbicide, which researchers have linked to health problems in …

24. Key Biscayne spent $8M to make a climate-resilient flood plan. Then they tossed it

    Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:30:00 -0000

    On days with heavy rain in Key Biscayne, golf carts can stall out in the middle of the street, electric cars get stranded in rising water and …

25. The Iran War Is Impacting the Environment in Unseen Ways

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:30:00 -0000

    From toxic smoke and oil spills to rising emissions, poisoned soil, and damaged ecosystems, war can reshape the environment long after the fighting …

26. War in Iran spotlights the risk to drinking water for millions in the Persian Gulf

    Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    Iran has a drinking water crisis. And the war with the U.S. is making matters worse for Iran—and the entire Gulf region. That’s in part because of …

27. The 10 U.S. Cities With the Cleanest Air

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:50:32 -0000

    Carbon dioxide emissions – a byproduct of fossil fuel consumption – have surged in recent decades. According to data from the World Bank, 39.6 …

28. Spain, France, Portugal: Renewables race heats up as governments scramble to keep energy bills down

    Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:00:47 -0000

    "As long as we depend on oil and gas, we will continue to ​pay the price of other people's wars,” said French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu. With …

29. Scientists Reveal The Potentially Devastating Danger Beneath Yellowstone National Park

    Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:30:00 -0000

    Yellowstone National Park is a regular fixture on many travelers' bucket lists since it was declared America's first national park back in 1872. …

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    Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:11:29 -0000

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