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Science in the Arctic — and Greenland — is on the frontline of pressing challenges facing humanity, like climate change and genetics. Some researchers worry international collaboration is at risk.
Trump officials have delayed finalizing the repeal of the agency’s “endangerment finding” over concerns the proposal is too weak to withstand a court challenge.
The president’s assaults on wind and solar projects could become a playbook for disrupting fossil fuel plans in the future.
Trump has attacked renewable power from every angle, but energy justice scholar Sanya Carley envisions an affordable green future.

A Permian Basin landowner alleges in a lawsuit that saltwater injection wells contributed to well blow-outs that caused extensive pollution on his property.

Houston has its own Climate Action Plan to meet Paris Agreement targets, set in motion when Trump announced his first withdrawal from the UN treaty in 2017.
To keep the lights on, states like New York and Massachusetts will need to build projects that are currently “impossible.”

Judgment in The Hague orders Netherlands to do more to protect Caribbean people in its territory from impacts of climate crisis.

A year into Trump’s second term, critics say the EPA is rolling back dozens of protections and giving a leg up to polluters.

The U.S. Forest Service announced revisions to its oil and gas leasing rules today that the agency promises “modernizes and streamlines” the permitting process to drill for fossil fuels in the nation’s forests and grasslands.

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot.

Companies are adding factory capacity across the whole supply chain, even as new tariffs and national security concerns loom on the horizon.

A group of senior advertising executives has released an anonymous memo warning that “a vacuum of responsible leadership” means the ad industry is morally failing itself and society.

Tech companies are turning to green concrete to help reduce the massive environmental footprint of building out data centers.

Regulators mull the first big utility plan to provide electricity to data centers flocking to the state, igniting disputes over consumer protection and clean energy.

With rising concerns over where data centers are able to be built, one bill looks to keep them in industrial areas.
Following a Times investigation, a state lawmaker is proposing the first health-based standards for assessing smoke contamination after wildfires.

Manufacturers use method that labels plastic as ‘circular’ and climate-friendly, despite being mostly fossil-based.

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