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Red and white striped power plant smokestacks with billowing smoke emitting from the top

Trump’s coal revival keeps Michigan plant open at high cost to residents

Critics say the move to prop up aging coal facilities could lead to dozens of premature deaths annually while shifting financial burdens onto ratepayers.

www.bloomberg.com
A cow staring at the camera with yellow tags in its ears

A new electronic nose’ measures methane ... on the cow

Most existing sensors struggle to isolate methane in the very noisy chemical landscape of a cattle farm. This new invention may change that.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
Children at a climate protest

Federal climate rollback raises new risks for Wisconsin’s energy future

The EPA's climate rollback comes just as Wisconsin communities, farms and businesses invest in clean energy and resilient infrastructure.
wisconsinexaminer.com
Pittsburgh city skyline with the Allegheny River in the foreground

Pennsylvania spent big on a 'petrochemical renaissance.' It never arrived

Visions of a booming hub that would bring jobs and prosperity to Appalachia faded, but the plastic “nurdles” remain.
capitalandmain.com
An old oil well pump jack in a field.

The oil industry's latest disaster: Trillions of gallons of buried toxic wastewater

Industry and regulators knew decades ago that injecting drilling’s toxic liquid leftovers underground wasn’t safe.
www.desmog.com
Pigs at a commercial hog farm are eating and sniffing in pens.

California pays farms to make biogas from hog waste in North Carolina, where locals say it’s fueling pollution

Last year, six hog farms in the state were the first to get funding from California’s program to offset its emissions from transportation fuels. The operations’ permits already have civil rights complaints against them for the pollution from the process.
insideclimatenews.org
Smoggy Los Angeles skyline with skyscrapers in distance.

Democratic senators launch inquiry into EPA’s repeal of key air pollution enforcement measure

Senators said repeal was ‘particularly troubling’ and was counter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's mandate to protect human health.

www.theguardian.com
A residential street with Los Angeles skyscrapers in background.

Notoriously hazardous South L.A. oil wells finally plugged after decades of community pressure

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week that state oil and gas regulators have permanently closed one of the most infamous drill sites in Los Angeles, bringing an end to a decades-long community campaign to prevent dangerous gas leaks and spills from rundown extraction equipment.

www.latimes.com
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Michigan sues fossil fuel companies while Alberta protects them

While Michigan lawmakers are taking fossil fuel companies to court for delaying the green transition, the Alberta government is hampering clean energy.
www.desmog.com
A person holding a drone aloft

Thermal drone footage shows Musk's AI power plant flouting clean air regulations

Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship data centers.
floodlightnews.org
white pollution from smokestack billows over skyline during sunset.

Trump repeals U.S. government’s power to regulate climate

Nearly 17 years after the Environmental Protection Agency declared that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten the public’s health and welfare, the agency on Thursday rescinded the landmark legal opinion underpinning a wave of federal policies aimed at climate change.

www.washingtonpost.com
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum U.S. Secretary of the Interior speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)

Burgum calls energy transition a ‘fantasy’ as EPA guts climate regulations

The Interior secretary cast doubt on widely accepted climate science and touted plans to build out the nation’s reserves of critical minerals.
www.eenews.net
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Banks decline to finance LNG project in Papua New Guinea

Twenty-nine global banks reject financing a Papua New Guinea LNG project led by TotalEnergies, citing climate, environmental and human rights concerns.
news.mongabay.com
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The energy boom is coming for Great Lakes water

Delve into the relationship between Great Lakes water and energy, and its implications for the region's future.
www.circleofblue.org
A small girl holding a model of an airplane

Researchers find a way to make airplanes fly on landfill gas

Specially designed efficient catalysts are at the heart of a reactor that makes sustainable aviation fuels from methane-rich gases created when waste decomposes.

www.anthropocenemagazine.org
Industrial complex with polluting smoke rising from stacks.

As the Trump EPA prepares to revoke key legal finding on climate change, what happens next?

By revoking its 17-year-old scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will demolish the legal underpinning of its authority to act on climate change under the Clean Air Act.

insideclimatenews.org
Factory smokestacks emitting smoke against sunset sky.

European chemical giants plot to weaken EU’s flagship climate policy

The ultra-polluting sector says the EU’s carbon price is putting it out of business.
www.politico.eu
plastic trash bobbing in a river

Floods are sending far more plastic to the ocean than we thought

A new study shows that most plastic pollution from rivers is transported to the ocean during short, intense flood events.
www.earth.com
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