Business & Finance

A New Law Regulating the Cosmetics Industry Expands the FDA’s Power But Fails to Ban Toxic Chemicals in Beauty Products

The Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act empowers the FDA to recall harmful cosmetics. Advocates want to know why manufacturers still don’t have to prove their products are safe before they’re sold to millions of consumers.

By Victoria St. Martin

A New Solar Water Heating System Goes Online as Its Developer Enters the US Market

By Dan Gearino

As New York Officials Push Clean Hydrogen Project, Indigenous Nation Sees a Threat to Its Land

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Corruption and Rights Abuses Are Flourishing in Lithium Mining Across Africa, a New Report Finds

By Katie Surma

Dominion’s Proposed Virginia Power Plant Casts Doubt on Its Commitments to Clean Energy

By Jake Bolster

Wood Pellet Giant Enviva Discloses a Financial Crisis

By James Bruggers

UAW Settles With Big 3 U.S. Automakers, Hoping to Organize EV Battery Plants

By Dan Gearino and Aydali Campa

Who Were the Worst of the Worst Climate Polluters in 2022?

By Phil McKenna

Watchdog Finds a US Chemical Plant Isn’t Reporting Emissions of Climate Super-Pollutants and Ozone-Depleting Substances to Federal Regulators

By Phil McKenna

Apple Goes a Step Too Far in Claiming a Carbon Neutral Product, a New Report Concludes

By Phil McKenna

In the Ambitious Bid to Reinvent South Baltimore, Justice Concerns Remain

By Aman Azhar

A Drop in Emissions, and a Jobs Bonanza? Critics Question Benefits of a Proposed Hydrogen Hub for the Appalachian Region

By Jon Hurdle

Some Rare, Real Talk From a Utility About Competition With Rooftop Solar

By Dan Gearino

More Than 100 Protesters Arrested in New York City While Calling on the Federal Reserve to End Fossil Fuel Financing

By Keerti Gopal

Errors In a Federal Carbon Capture Analysis Are a Warning for Clean Energy Spending, Former Official Says

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Industrial Plants in Gary and Other Environmental Justice Communities Are Highlighted as Top Emitters

By Aydali Campa, Phil McKenna and Victoria St. Martin

As Federal Money Flows to Carbon Capture and Storage, Texas Bets on an Undersea Bonanza

By Amal Ahmed

Private Equity Giant KKR Is Funding Environmental Racism, New Report Finds

By Keerti Gopal

New Rules Help to Answer Whether Clean Energy Jobs Will Also Be Good Jobs

By Dan Gearino