Tariffs on everything from electric vehicles to grid components could slow the energy transition.
Causes
The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that will drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly maintained, and prone to leaking methane, the highly potent greenhouse gas.
It's one of the first successful legal challenges to the administration’s “energy emergency” agenda.
These climate feedback loops, where climate change triggers more greenhouse gas emissions that in turn feed into even more climate change, could add 20 to 30 percent more warming over current estimates for this century.
Expanding deforestation in Indonesia caused by the country’s wood pellet and chip industry is putting further pressure on tropical forests, Key Biodiversity Areas, and Indigenous territories in the archipelago, according to a new satellite analysis.
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
Five years after virtually every world leader agreed to “phase down” the burning of coal for climate reasons, the fuel is more widely used than ever.
Gubernatorial nominee Tom Tiffany flipped on data centers, outflanked his Democratic rival, and tied the issue to renewable projects he has opposed for years.
Former federal environmental officials are sounding an alarm in a new report about potential health impacts from data center pollution amidst what they see as a breakdown in oversight.
Emissions of planet-heating methane and carbon dioxide from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis, paper says
A sweeping yet vaguely worded national emergency declaration targeting Chinese grid tech could put gigawatts of grid battery projects on uncertain legal ground.
Greenland ice reveals a surprising shift in industrial pollution after 1990 that could help explain recent Arctic warming.

States sue feds over endangered species rollbacks
10 September
A coalition of state attorneys general filed a pair of lawsuits Wednesday challenging the Trump administration’s rollbacks of protections for endangered species.
Are four years of pro-environment policies about to come to an end?
Scientific evidence has never been stronger. Why aren’t more people making the link?
Europe just opened a carbon capture and storage plant billed as the continent's largest. But global climate scenarios call for far more capacity than exists anywhere on Earth.
Iowa Environmental Council’s 2026 report on Iowa’s electric generation shows a “reversal” in progress toward renewable sources.
Brown University researchers found that a small amount of testimony from fossil fuel lobbyists opposing polluter pay laws has had greater power than massive public support.
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