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Conservative justices focused on industry costs when blocking the Clean Power Plan, the first climate rule proposed for the power sector.
Record growth in solar, especially in China and India, was a driving factor for clean energy sources surpassing the world’s strong demand for electricity in 2025.

Climate leaders say Democrats need to promote clean energy as a way to cut costs for Americans as war roils oil markets.

Officials at the annual Rio Grande Compact Commission meeting said they expect river flows this year to be among the lowest in history.

Opponents of the project, known as Kaskida, say an accident could be even worse than the Deepwater Horizon spill. The company says it’s learned from the past.
Yuvelis Morales Blanco, 24, helped halt fracking along Colombia’s largest river and one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. She’s faced death threats and exile for her advocacy.
FERC is pushing to get data centers onto the grid, and fast. The high-stakes move could tip the balance of regulatory power against the states.
Countries are navigating between the desire to speed up the green transition and worries over Beijing’s clean-tech dominance.
The Trump administration will pull its emergency levers to head off a major water and power crisis.

At Heartland’s climate conference, fossil fuel allies warn MAHA chemical rules could threaten the oil industry, exposing a rift in Trump’s base.

The Albanese government overhauled policy and promised significant pollution cuts — but carbon offsets are still being used as an excuse.

Jackie Chesnutt, who lives outside San Angelo, is tired of pollution from wells she says should have been plugged years ago. Experts say Texas rules allow companies to defer plugging wells for far too long.

SunZia has quietly begun sending enormous amounts of wind power to California as President Donald Trump works to thwart the wind industry.

The Trump administration’s fuel blockade against Cuba has resulted in widespread power outages and gas shortages, but also a surge in solar installations.

Environmental groups are suing the Trump administration over its decision to exempt oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from complying with the Endangered Species Act.

In a setback for federal efforts to thwart climate litigation, the judge ruled that the suit, which tried to block the state from suing oil companies, was too speculative.

The European Union's top court says Hungary's tax on CO2 emission allowances, introduced in 2023, is against EU law, as it removes the operators' incentive to invest in measures to cut emissions.

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