The Danish territory holds significant stores of oil, gas and minerals. But regulations and the extreme environment have kept the vast majority in the ground.
The US has pledged to pull out of dozens of international organizations and treaties established to advance the protection of the planet. But it doesn't spell the end of environmental action.
The United States' decision to withdraw from the United Nations' key climate treaty is a "colossal own goal" that will harm the U.S. economy, jobs and living standards, United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell says.
If the court rules in favor of a former lawmaker and a lobbyist convicted in Ohio’s HB 6 scandal, it would have huge implications for the utility sector.
Tense public hearings and protests mocking Dominion Energy have followed the proposed natural gas plant in Chesterfield County, VA, throughout its approval process, which is almost complete.
Duke Energy is seeking regulatory approval for a $3.2 billion natural gas power plant near Anderson, pitching the project as essential to meeting South Carolina’s growing energy demand.
The action could make it more difficult for a future administration to rejoin the Paris climate accord, the agreement among most nations to fight climate change.
France and Italy are seeking to exclude fertilizers from the European Union's carbon border levy, at least temporarily, saying an exemption is needed to protect struggling European farmers.
Environmental justice advocates warn that refining Venezuelan oil will concentrate more pollution and cancer risk in majority-Black communities along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast.
