Too many utilities are keeping coal plants open, planning new gas plants, and building less renewable energy, the Sierra Club’s latest “Dirty Truth Report” finds.
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright is pitching a future of fossil fuel abundance. It’s not always an easy sell while war drags on and oil prices surge.
While President Donald Trump pushed against cutting emissions and regulating technology, environmentalists called for world leaders to reject conflict and build a stable future with clean energy.
New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis.
Experts say the rise of artificial intelligence and data centers, which consume a lot of energy, and higher fossil fuel prices due to wars in Iran, Venezuela and Ukraine are changing the conversation.
State regulators ordered the AI data center to either get permits or shut down 62 gas generators at its rapidly expanding facility.
Emissions are reportedly 3.5 times the level requiring correction. Chevron will be given a set time period to fix it.
A new study blames 122 companies for contributing to severe drought in the Western United States.
Scientists expected their artificial floating wetland to help only after cleaning the water. Instead, greenhouse gas emissions dropped months earlier, and nobody is sure exactly why.
Advocates in Georgia warn a Trump administration rollback on climate standards for power plants will increase greenhouse gas emissions.
The planetary life support systems relied upon by humans have deteriorated to their worst levels ever recorded amid ongoing pollution and habitat destruction, according to a key yet grim annual update by scientists.
From London's ULEZ to Sofia's clean air zone, European cities are proving that cleaner air is achievable — but there's still a lot of work to do.
World and business leaders gathering in New York face mounting pressure to address climate change as extreme weather, high fossil fuel prices, and rapidly-growing electricity demand from AI reshape the global energy debate.
By allowing state laws to override local ordinances, actions like Senate Bill 180 are making Florida "less free," one advocate says.
Trump says he digs coal — but pneumoconiosis cases are at a 50-year high, and sick miners are mired in benefit delays.
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict-of-interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’.
The young government of Nepal, a nation with a tiny carbon footprint, is seeking reparations from the world’s major economies as it bears the brunt of collapsing Himalayan glaciers.
The nation’s electric utilities release vast quantities of the world’s most potent greenhouse gas. Recycling efforts could slash emissions at little cost, an Inside Climate News analysis reveals.
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