NEWS + RESEARCH
COP30: Key Outcomes and Implications
(December 10, 2025) COP30 sparked hope with new forest and Indigenous protections and climate funding, but the fossil fuel deadlock shows we’re still far from the action the planet urgently needs.
Change the Chamber Warns: EPA’s Methane Delay Endangers Our Future
(December 8, 2025) The EPA’s delay of vital methane rules gives polluters a pass while communities face escalating heat, dirtier air, and mounting health risks. Choosing industry shortcuts over public safety threatens our climate, our economy, and the future young people are fighting to protect.
Soil Erosion, Soil Weathering, or Soil Degradation: What’s the Difference and Why Should We Care?
(December 5, 2025) Soil erosion, weathering, and degradation each impact the land differently, but erosion is stripping away fertile topsoil at alarming rates, threatening food systems, water quality, and ecosystems.
Climate Change’s Threat to Agriculture & Global Food Supply
(December 4, 2025) Farmers everywhere are watching once-reliable harvests wither under extreme heat and drought. The science is clear: warming is eating our food supply faster than we can adapt.
A Humanitarian Alarm in Cox’s Bazar
(November 28, 2025) USAID cuts are worsening the crisis in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh leaving Rohingya families struggling to survive. The future for millions hangs in the balance.
The Gambia: A Small Nation with a Big Fish Problem
(November 21, 2025) Foreign overfishing and fishmeal factories are stripping The Gambia’s waters, driving up food prices, and polluting coastal communities. Weak regulation and corruption have turned a basic food source into a tool of exploitation.
What Are Asbestos and Lead, and Why Should We Care?
(November 16, 2025) Asbestos and lead are dangerous, long-lasting pollutants that threaten our health and environment, even as political battles continue to put their protections at risk. Recent gains, like the asbestos ban and stronger lead standards, now face renewed uncertainty, making it urgent to defend these lifesaving safeguards.
Change the Chamber Urges Congress to Choose People Over Polluters
(November 13, 2025) Change the Chamber calls on Congress: will you choose people over corporate polluters? Americans need clean air, affordable energy, and safe communities, not empty deals. (Full statement below.)
Conflict and Conservation: How War Is Devastating the DRC’s National Parks
(November 11, 2025) War and poverty are tearing through the DRC’s national parks, driving poaching, corruption, and the loss of endangered species. Amid the devastation, a few protected areas like Garamba offer rare hope for recovery.
The Real Cost of Hog Farming: How North Carolina’s Pork Industry Fuels an Environmental Justice Crisis
(October 29, 2025) Billions of gallons of hog waste are poisoning Eastern North Carolina, and the communities hit hardest are Black and brown families living nearby.
Brine to Bone: Oil and Gas’s Radioactive Waste Legacy Shapes Our Health
(October 21, 2025) Oil and gas drilling brings radioactive waste to the surface, contaminating air, water, and soil, and posing invisible but lasting threats to human health. As corporations bury this toxic legacy under weak regulations, frontline communities and workers are exposing how our energy system trades public safety for profit.
Working in Extreme Heat: Risks, Responses, and Solutions for Occupational Health and Safety
(October 16, 2025) At NY Climate Week, Change the Chamber united experts and organizers to tackle how extreme heat endangers workers, and the bold solutions needed to keep them safe.
Marine Die-Offs Signal a Climate Emergency
(October 5, 2025) Mass die-offs of sea life are sweeping coastlines as warming seas and pollution trigger toxic blooms and heatwaves. Scientists warn these cascading losses are a glimpse of what’s to come without urgent climate action.
CTC Condemns the Recent Government Shutdown as Harmful and Wholly Avoidable
(October 3, 2025) Change the Chamber calls out the government shutdown that’s putting public health, climate protections, and essential services at risk. Furloughing workers and stalling disaster response isn’t leadership, it’s sabotage of the people and planet Congress is meant to protect.
Womb with a View (of 1.5°C)
(October 2, 2025) Extreme heat is putting pregnancies at risk, increasing the chances of stillbirth, preterm birth, and lasting health complications. At the same time, rising temperatures are making decisions about whether and when to have children even more uncertain.