The water level at Utah’s Great Salt Lake is at a record low. 

Wayne LaPierre and his wife, Susan, used NRA funds to turn the feet of an elephant they shot into footstools, an umbrella stand, and a trash can.

Representative Don Young (R) wants NOAA to investigate whether nuclear submarines might be behind diminishing salmon runs in Alaska waters.

Montana restricts fly fishing on its famed trout streams amid a severe drought. 

West Virginia senator Joe Manchin (D) earns more than twice as much selling coal to the state’s dirtiest power plant as he does from being a US senator.  

The Bureau of Land Management agrees to let Arch Coal mine ore on federal lands in Colorado and Wyoming for dramatically reduced royalty rates.  

The United States exported a record high amount of liquefied natural gas in the first six months of 2021.

The Biden administration opens two areas off California’s central coast to offshore wind farms.

Oregon commits to using 100 percent clean energy by 2040, the eighth state to do so. 

Carbon emissions from the US power sector dropped by 10 percent between 2019 and 2020. Zero-carbon sources now provide 38 percent of US electricity. 

Bayer, owner of Monsanto, says that it will stop selling glyphosate-based herbicides by 2023 because of costly lawsuits against its product, Roundup.

Gasoline super users—“a subset of middle-income people who often live in rural or exurban areas and cover vast distances at the wheel of Ford and Chevy pickups”—make up 10 percent of drivers but consume 32 percent of the nation’s gas.  

From 2000 to 2019, the number of SUVs and other large vehicles on US streets tripled, and pedestrian deaths increased by 30 percent. 

Ohio utility FirstEnergy Corp. will pay $230 million for attempting to bribe state lawmakers to bail out its two nuclear power plants. 

Australia’s massive bushfires in 2019 and 2020 put so much soot into the atmosphere that they cooled temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere.

The COVID-19 pandemic reduced the life expectancy of Americans, on average, by a year and a half: 1.2 years for white people, 2.9 for Black people, and three years for Latinos.