Environment & Sustainability

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Guggenheim scraps Basque Country expansion plan after local protests

Campaigners celebrate defeat of proposal to extend Bilbao institution into areas including nature reserve Environmental groups and local campaigners in the Basque Country have welcomed the scrapping of a controversial project that would have seen an outpost of Bilbao’s Guggenheim…

A Long Wait for Flooding Help in Chicago May Be Nearing an End

The city’s pending budget is expected to unlock more assistance for West Side residents, more than two years after summer flooding damaged their homes. By Leigh Giangreco CHICAGO—Two-and-a-half years after Dorothy Rosenthal’s home on the West Side flooded, she is…

Here’s the global playbook being used to crack down on climate protest

A new study published this month in the journal Environmental Politics reveals that efforts to repress climate and environmental protest are growing worldwide through a combination of new legislation, novel uses of existing legal processes, police actions, vilification of activists,…

BP Names New Boss After Its C.E.O. Steps Down

Meg O’Neill of Australia’s Woodside Energy will lead the London energy giant, replacing Murray Auchincloss, who will exit after less than two years in the role.