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Alerts In an aerial view, boat docks at the Browns Ravine Cove sit on dry earth at Folsom Lake on May 10, 2021 in El Dorado Hills, California. Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) California is in trouble. Drought has returned to the state in a major way, and bone-dry docks are just the tip of the devastating problems facing the state. Currently, 41 of California’s 58 counties are in a drought state of emergency, affecting approximately 30% of the state’s population. As we move into the summer, experts anticipate the drought’s impacts will only get worse. Advertisement List slides P...

Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP (Getty Images) In the pantheon of climate change concerns, more space junk isn’t high on my list. But apparently it should be. Advertisement Two striking recent findings show that excess carbon dioxide is messing with the composition of the atmosphere dozens to hundreds of miles above Earth’s surface. The shifts taking place could turn low Earth orbit into a landfill (or skyfill, I guess?) and impact the functionality of GPS and other technology vital to modern life. Most climate change happenings that preoccupy us take place here on the surface of Earth as we...

Photo: Megan Varner (Getty Images) Americans are a panicky bunch, and the latest thing to set them off is the Colonial pipeline hack. Reports of the possibility of gas shortages have sent people streaming to gas stations, engaging in hand-to-hand combat, and maybe even filling bags with gas. (????) All this hoarding has created actual gas shortages. Advertisement Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm likened it to “hoarding toilet paper at the beginning of the pandemic.” And lo and behold, the Colonial pipeline was back online by Wednesday evening, bringing an end to this semi-national nigh...

Advertisement Kids in Massachusetts received propaganda from a local utility extolling the virtues of natural gas. On Twitter last week, Cambridge, Massachusetts resident Gleb Bahmutov shared photos of two different booklets he said his son brought home from elementary school that were produced by Eversource Energy. The pictures Bahmutov posted show activities in the booklets (one of which is titled “Natural Gas: Your Invisible Friend”) that encourage kids to identify appliances in the house that are powered by natural gas and complete a simple maze leading from gas stores underground to ...

Photo: Michigan Office of the Governor (AP) Seizing the profits of a major oil company, making Canadians angry, tugboats causing havoc: It’s all happening in Michigan right now. The mandated shutdown of a major oil pipeline is brewing into a nasty fight that pits Michigan’s governor and environmental groups against a fossil fuel company—as well as the country of Canada. Advertisement At issue are two pipelines owned and operated by Enbridge, an energy company headquartered in Canada, that ferry crude oil and natural gas to the U.S. via the Straits of Mackinac, a shipping channel in Mich...