A "potentially life-threatening," blizzard is slamming the Sierra Nevada with up to 12 feet of snow — making mountain travel "extremely dangerous to impossible" into the weekend, the National Weather Service warns.
The big picture: This "extremely potent" winter storm also threatens the higher terrain of Washington and Oregon, parts of the Great Basin and Rockies as well, per an NWS forecast discussion Friday.
Newly-released data shows a bifurcated world when it comes to energy transition and carbon emissions.
Why it matters: Climate-friendly technology is moving much more slowly in developing economies — often the same places emissions and energy demand are rising fast.
Biden officials face a complicated political landscape as they spare existing gas-fired power plants — at least for now — from looming electricity carbon emissions rules.
Why it matters: Power generation is the nation's second-largest source of CO2, but neither Obama-era regulations, nor a more modest Trump-era rule, survived court challenges.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable hope to join Exxon's litigation against shareholder climate activists.
Why it matters: It signals that the K Street powerhouses see this case as an important front in wider battles over shareholder activism on climate and other topics.
Why it matters: The analysis in Climatic Change offers fresh insight intorisks facing six countries at different levels of warming — Brazil, Ghana, Ethiopia, China, Egypt and India.
Texas' massive Smokehouse Creek Fire exploded into the state's second-largest wildfire on Wednesday after forcing the evacuation of residents and workers at a nuclear facility on Tuesday.
The big picture: The sprawling wildfire, burning from the Texas town of Stinnett into parts of neighboring Oklahoma, was 3% contained as it burned across some 850,000 acreson Wednesday afternoon, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.
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