President Donald Trump is unlikely to see many U.S. oil companies jump in response to his call to tap into Venezuela, industry experts say.
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The United States' decision to withdraw from the United Nations' key climate treaty is a "colossal own goal" that will harm the U.S. economy, jobs and living standards, United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell says.
The U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change underpins global efforts to address rising temperatures.
Given Venezuela’s murky political future, few analysts expect a rush to invest the billions needed to pump more oil from the world’s largest reserves.
“God only knows what the Trump administration will do” if the EU expands its aviation emissions scheme, an EU official says.
As clean energy prices fall, a fast transition to renewable energy is the cheapest option on the table. Experts say it could save us trillions in energy costs alone.
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
The wine industry has lost billions of dollars, largely because smoke makes the drink taste like licking an ashtray. Now a team of scientists is chasing a solution.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that oil released from tankers off Venezuela’s coast would be arriving in the U.S. “very soon.”
The action could make it more difficult for a future administration to rejoin the Paris climate accord, the agreement among most nations to fight climate change.

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France and Italy are seeking to exclude fertilizers from the European Union's carbon border levy, at least temporarily, saying an exemption is needed to protect struggling European farmers.
‘Everybody loses’ if production is supercharged in a country with the largest known oil reserves, critics say.
Environmental justice advocates warn that refining Venezuelan oil will concentrate more pollution and cancer risk in majority-Black communities along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast.
Key indicators, from the cost of fossil gas to the number of heat pumps sold, signal building decarbonization will march onward in the U.S. despite challenges.
Companies like Kairos Power are building new types of reactors with the encouragement of the Trump administration, but their success is far from assured.
The job cuts expected this month are part of a plan by the Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, to remake the agency.
Canada’s outdated flood maps put people at risk. In Montreal, a battle over updating them highlights a nationwide worry over home values and insurance costs
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