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Trump’s crackdown brought offshore wind development to a near standstill. Louisiana companies are trying to keep the industry alive until the political winds change.

When it comes to perhaps the most significant climate change-related case to reach the high court in nearly two decades, environmentalists aren’t yet writing Thomas off, even though he has consistently sided against them.

Democrat-led states and cities argue that the rollback harms public health and the environment.
Weakened US fuel-efficiency rules and promises of cheaper cars could yet see drivers pay higher running costs while increasing planet-heating emissions.
The Environmental Protection Agency is rolling back greenhouse gas emission requirements for U.S. power plants, which the agency said will save $310 billion, in a press release earlier this month. 
Even farmers who were already promised funds from the REAP program may never get them under the Trump admin’s new restrictions. Some are suing.
California regulators broke state environmental laws by allowing polluters to buy clean fuel credits from large farms that are extracting gas from manure, a policy that harms poor communities and perverts the state’s clean air program, four advocacy groups allege in a lawsuit.

Senior public servant says bureaucrats will speak up about misinformation that risks policy progress.

The current El Nino could cause 451,000 excess heat deaths. Researchers warn it offers a glimpse of temperatures that may become normal within 20 years.
Just days after a plea for global climate action, Nepal faces yet another disaster.
An unusual study aims to estimate the pollution and health costs from a cluster of proposed data centers, instead of considering each one separately.
Experts expect flows to soon drop to a level that could upend the byzantine “Law of the River” that has governed the river for more than a century.
As climate change increases the risk of flooding across many parts of the United States, fewer people are buying flood insurance.

The Clean Air Act was not designed to shield fossil fuel companies from legal accountability or to eviscerate states’ authority to protect their citizens from conduct that brings harm to communities and costs the taxpayers billions.

Spain's southern coast produces up to 25% of Europe's fruit and vegetables. But amid intensive farming, climate change, and illegal wells, the water it takes to grow them is drying up.

Half a century of corporate influence set the stage for Trump's attacks on higher education, a new study argues.

Justice Samuel Alito decided Monday to sit out one of the most consequential climate change cases to reach the Supreme Court, but legal experts expected continuing ramifications due to his ownership of individual corporate stocks, including in the fossil fuel industry.

In a previously-unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.

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