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The Enigmatic ‘Climate Chancellor’ Pulls Off a Grand Finale A new EU climate target cements Angela Merkel’s global legacy, but many in Germany say she has often been an obstacle to progress. December 31, 2020 German Chancellor Angela Merkel throws her voting card into the ballot box during passage of sweeping climate legislation in December 2019. Credit: Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images Related Power Switch: Last in a series about the German energy transition. Inside a council building on Brussels’ Rue de la Loi, a landmark climate deal was hanging in the balance. Ang...

On the morning of Dec. 8, about 30 workers at a George's poultry plant in Springdale, Arkansas, staged a walkout to protest their working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The family-owned company, one of the 10 biggest poultry producers in the U.S., is headquartered in Springdale and also operates processing plants in Virginia and Missouri as well as a prepared foods division in Tennessee, with more than 4,800 employees across all locations. The plant that workers walked out of is one of the company's three plants in Springdale and is not unionized. The Springdale walkout, which the w...

Nine workers died and hundreds were sickened in a COVID-19 outbreak at the plant earlier this year.

Share this article For Darilyn Turner and her neighbors, living in the bottomlands along the banks of the Mississippi River south of New Orleans is particularly perilous from June through November. Those months encompass the Atlantic hurricane season. Even in a normal year, people are on edge, she said, worried about storms that blow over the Gulf of Mexico, bringing walls of water, high winds and, often, widespread destruction when they find land. But 2020 was no normal year.  A record Atlantic basin hurricane season was fueled by warmer than normal ocean and Gulf waters that scientists sa...

Inside Clean Energy: Clean Energy Wins Big in Covid-19 Legislation Wind energy on land and offshore, along with solar, get tax credits in the U.S. stimulus bill; Belgium to get energy storage for its grid from a Google backup battery. December 24, 2020 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, walks to his office from the Senate Floor at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Dec. 18, 2020. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Related Share this article Clean energy industries got their biggest legislative win in a long time this week, thanks to provisions tucked into the...