Joe Fassler is a writer and journalist whose work on climate and technology appears in outlets like The Guardian, The New York Times, and Wired. His novel, The Sky Was Ours, was published by Penguin Books. He teaches journalism and creative writing in the MA in Science Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University, where he serves as Program Director.
The state’s reforms aimed to fix well cleanup, but a DeSmog and Guardian investigation found it will take decades to clear the backlog.
The Environmental Protection Agency threw out Colorado’s entire haze reduction plan, in what critics called ‘illegal’ and a possible warning to other states not to close fossil fuel plants.
As Trump pushes to slash the EPA’s budget to its lowest level in four decades, 15 years of state-level cuts have already hollowed out environmental enforcement across the country.
Utilities started reversing coal power’s “irreversible” decline. Will it last?
New study shows top producers’ combined impact surpasses Saudi Arabia’s domestic emissions.
These industry players and allies push a misleading narrative the Trump administration now parrots.
State may be “rubber stamping” some air pollution permits, according to new report on the boom.
More than 50 high-level Trump administration officials have links to groups behind the Heritage Foundation-backed plan, a DeSmog analysis found.
The billionaire rescued the right-wing plan to dismantle the government while at its most toxic moment. Enacting its vision at DOGE, Musk was Trump’s enabler and fall guy.
The tech billionaire is invigorating groups in the U.S. and Europe aiming to sabotage climate action, a DeSmog media analysis shows.
