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What Are We Willing to Pay to Fight the Rising Sea? A North Carolina community risks washing away, and solutions don’t come cheap. It very likely offers a glimpse of things to come. March 17, 2021 transition to electric vehicles and American exports of plastic waste. Video By Christopher Flavelle As the ocean rises, homeowners in Avon, a tiny town on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, are confronting a tax increase of almost 50 percent to defend the only road into town. Residents want somebody else to pay for it; local officials say they’re on their own. But the proposed fix, spending at...

Reluctantly, a Coal State Pivots to Wind Wyoming shows how energy transformation in the United States is possible March 10, 2021 deadly heat and humidity in the tropics and the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Image By Dionne Searcey Generations of Wyoming residents found a steady paycheck in coal mines and took pride in powering the nation. But now, it’s energy from the region’s other abundant energy resource, wind, that’s creating jobs and much-needed tax revenues in one county. Wyoming stands to become a leader in renewable energy, but not out of an urgenc...

How green are electric vehicles? © Nachiket Deuskar How green are electric vehicles? Around the world, governments and automakers are promoting electric vehicles as a key technology to curb oil use and fight climate change. General Motors has said it aims to stop selling new gasoline-powered cars and light trucks by 2035 and will pivot to battery-powered models. This week, Volvo said it would move even faster and introduce an all-electric lineup by 2030. But as electric cars and trucks go mainstream, they have faced a persistent question: Are they really as green as advertised? While exper...

This is the Feb. 25, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. If you’ve been on the internet this month, you may have seen the General Motors ad that aired during the Super Bowl. It features a bearded Will Ferrell putting his fist through a globe out of frustration that Norway sells more electric cars per person than the United States, then rounding up Kenan Thompson and Awkwafina to help him take on the Norwegians. Much as that made me laugh, I was even more enamor...

The Battle Takes Shape Jan. 27, 2021 a push by firefighters for safer equipment. Image By Coral Davenport and Lisa Friedman President Biden on Wednesday signed a raft of executive orders on climate that focus on three main themes: job creation, environmental justice and weaving climate change into every facet of the government. In a significant step toward one of Mr. Biden’s campaign promises, one of the orders directs the secretary of the Interior Department to “pause” on entering into new oil and natural gas leases on public lands and waters. Mr. Biden will have the support of som...