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Electrical transmission lines against a rainbow-colored sky

Trump has spent billions on energy. An electricity boom has yet to materialize

The administration has allocated $2.7 billion to stymie wind and solar, while backing fossil fuels and nuclear.
www.washingtonpost.com
Three people, with only hands visible toasting with bottles of Coca Cola

How companies have abandoned their climate goals and let themselves off the hook

Big business made big promises about saving the planet. Following through hasn’t been easy.
www.nytimes.com
School children march for science with sign on backpack reading "Listen to the Science!"

As climate extremes collide, attribution science evolves

A National Academy of Sciences report on extreme climate event attribution confronts political climate denialism with scientific evidence.
insideclimatenews.org
Wall-mounted home battery storage system

New Jersey law will let data centers pay for home energy upgrades

In a first, the state could speed up data centers’ grid connection if they bankroll energy-saving residential tech like heat pumps and batteries.
www.canarymedia.com
An illustration of a head with cracked earth on one side and soil and greenery on the other

New leader of major US climate program doesn’t believe the science

Trump just put a climate denier in charge of overseeing a key report.
atmos.earth
A view of a farm field being harvested by two farm tractors

Interactive map predicts climate-driven farm decline by end of century

A team in Barcelona has developed a platform that forecasts how much farmland will lose productivity to climate change by 2100.

www.euronews.com
Closeup of man with a two-handed grip on a hamburger in a bun, mouth open, about to eat.

Study says eating less meat could slash emissions. Americans are eating more than ever

A global shift to mostly plant-based diets with minimal processed foods and red meat, coupled with a large decrease in food waste, would decrease greenhouse gas emissions by more than 85% by 2050 compared to 2020 agricultural emissions, according to a new study. 
www.thenewlede.org
A group of black and white cows eating hay in a barn

Is the EU about to give the meat industry a pass on methane emissions?

Calling it “biogenic methane” is a red flag for climate scientists.
sentientmedia.org
Illustrative example of AI cube as data transport and an also an intrusive entity being "plunked down" on a circuit board representative of a cityscape

After months of debate, Virginia fails to pass data center clean energy requirements

The state will tax data center electricity but plans to reduce emissions at the facilities and secure environmental protections went nowhere.
insideclimatenews.org
A large office building with the words ExxonMobil on the side

US trial could reveal who paid hackers to target Exxon climate critics

A group of American climate activists are closely watching a US court case that could reveal who hired hackers to target their inboxes a decade ago.

www.theguardian.com
A torn white piece of paper with a $100 bill shown behind it

Leonard Leo's anti-climate network makes a European debut

Powerful American groups linked to the Trump administration are expanding across the Atlantic, opening up offices in the U.K. and Europe, fighting climate action, waging religious right culture wars and aligning with far-right political movements.

www.desmog.com
white cattle on green grass at daytime with fracking well in background.

Fracking ban in the Delaware River Basin survives a Republican challenge (for now)

The congressional amendment sought to overturn a fracking prohibition that protects water used by millions of people. Critics predict that natural gas allies will try again.
insideclimatenews.org
Illustration of silhouetted buisiness people gathered around a conference table against a cityscape background

‘I wouldn't call it panic’: Industry quails at Hochul's data center pause

Artificial intelligence advocates fear New York’s one-year moratorium on new data centers could embolden Democrats across the country to put more restrictions in place.

www.eenews.net
Black & white photo from 1950's of a gas station attendant pumping gas at a Sinclair station

Governments knew the risks of global warming as they chose fossil-fueled growth in the 1950s and ’60s

A new report suggests that some governments have ignored legal obligations to prevent climate harm for decades.
insideclimatenews.org
Steel quad-pipeline in the foreground with yellow/red valves, leading to a reinery in the background

Safety not a factor in determining North Dakota pipeline routes, attorney says

An attorney for North Dakota’s Public Service Commission said Tuesday that the agency can’t consider public safety when issuing a pipeline permit. 
northdakotamonitor.com
Environmental law symbol as an industrial smoke stack shaped as a justice scale as a metaphor for pollution regulations and clean air legislation.

He sued the oil industry for $51B. Now he faces Republicans in a private grilling

Roger Worthington, one of the lawyers at the center of a huge climate lawsuit against the oil and gas industry, faces congressional scrutiny.

www.politico.com
Person, presumably indigenous, facing out at Monument Valley vista.

‘Zero consultation’: Tribal reps say they were left out of monument reduction decisions

Two coalitions of Native American tribes say they weren’t consulted about the dramatic downsizing of two national monuments in Utah.
utahnewsdispatch.com
Drones-eye view of a data center sited in rural farm country

New York becomes first state in the nation to pause new hyperscale data centers

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday implementing a one-year moratorium on data center permits while the state develops regulatory protections for communities and the environment.
insideclimatenews.org
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