The administration announced the new standards Wednesday.
Causes
Corn dominates U.S. farmland and fuels the ethanol industry, but the fertilizer it relies on drives emissions and fouls drinking water.
Local pushback grows as utilities, regulators and lawmakers grapple with how to power — and police — Michigan’s data center rush.
Indonesia's government says it will summon eight companies over their suspected role in worsening the scale of floods and landslides that have killed more than 700 people.
Record-breaking monsoon rains and rare tropical cyclones have triggered catastrophic floods across Asia, killing more than 1,400 people and displacing thousands.
A New Mexico utility is seeking a “zero-carbon” label for part of its new gas plant, sparking criticism that it skirts climate law and shifts billions in costs to consumers.
Federal energy efficiency programs that once enjoyed bipartisan support are disappearing as data centers ramp up power consumption.
Exclusive: Brazil’s environment minister talks about climate inaction and the course we have to plot to save ourselves and the planet.
Executives from top automakers were invited to attend the announcement at the White House on Wednesday.
Resisting industry pressure, regulators ordered a 41% emissions reduction by 2035 — a move that supports Colorado’s climate goals and could guide other states.
With hundreds of satellites launched each year and tens of thousands more planned, scientists are increasingly concerned about an emerging problem: emissions from the fuels burned in launches and from the pollutants released when satellites and rocket stages flame out on reentry.
Governor Josh Shapiro pulled of the the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in exchange for a budget. Critics say he “got rolled.”
A revived plan to build a massive bitumen pipeline from Alberta to BC’s northwest coast faces stark warnings from veteran energy analyst David Hughes, who says the project defies physical limits, climate goals and basic economic sense.
The regulator in charge of environmental enforcement in Canada's main oil-producing province bent to pressure from the provincial government and oil companies to eliminate a limit on natural gas flaring as Canadian oil production increased.
In his first interview since resigning from cabinet last week, former culture minister Steven Guilbeault says recent decisions by Prime Minister Mark Carney's government will make it impossible for Canada to meet its climate change targets.

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