A draft assessment of the health of nature in the United States is grim but shot through with bright spots and possibility.
Politics
Nearly a dozen states are suing the oil and gas industry over climate. The fossil fuel industry is pushing back.
The administration’s decision to rescind the Obama-era endangerment finding undercuts its own legal arguments against state-level climate superfund laws.
Utility-scale solar soared in 2025 across the country; coal also grew, while natural gas was down.
Washington’s cap-and-trade program could soon link with carbon markets in California and Quebec, a move that agency officials say would decrease and stabilize decarbonization costs.
Even without war, experts in energy markets expressed doubt that the tech companies’ promises can check fast-rising electricity prices.
Though tech companies are secretive about water usage, Arizona’s 150-plus data centers and chip factories use a tiny fraction of its supply.
‘I’ve never seen anything like this,” longtime denier Marc Morano said recently of climate action advocates going ‘silent’ on the issue.
New Mexico has spent $225,000 in staff time fighting Targa over emission infractions, some that the company reported itself.
Fed up with a lack of action on climate change, some students are researching dimming the sun despite the pushback from other scientists.
The report says more than 1,000 Federal Emergency Management Agency contracts, grants or disaster aid awards have been delayed or remain pending, including for victims of July’s deadly flooding in Texas and Hurricane Helene in 2024.
Higher energy prices could make green alternatives more attractive, but harder to deploy.
A high-level EU diplomat says Europe is focused on nuclear and renewables, as India makes a play for Canadian oil and gas.
The proposed expansion of Signal Peak Energy’s Bull Mountains Mine has also revived scrutiny of a controversial land swap bill that would deprive Musselshell County of tax revenue.
The healthcare sector is caught in a climate paradox: it is under increasing pressure from the impact of climate change on people’s health, yet it also contributes heavily to global warming through its high emissions.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed to share key datasets behind its climate risk tools after environmental and farming groups sued over the removal of climate-related webpages.
Conservationists are struggling with their mental health for many reasons, but one of the largest is watching ecological destruction in real time.
A halt to shipping in strait of Hormuz and attacks on Middle East refineries are threatening supplies and stoking inflation.
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