Lawmakers agreed with a Public Service Commission rule that would keep a requirement for electrical generation capacity on coal-fired plants as a goal, rather than a mandate.
Going digital is often assumed to be a modern, efficient strategy that will save energy and resources. Thirty years of data from the world’s largest economies suggest the energy needed to power them has so far outweighed the savings.
The transition to electric vehicles should be moving apace, but it is not. And why? Incompetence, expedience, and cowardice, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot.
Bill Gates owns a dominant stake in Republic Services, America’s second-largest landfill operator, but he’s failed to make the company live up to his own climate principles, ProPublica has found.
Texas now issues permits for companies to store carbon dioxide underground; East Texas residents fear safety risks, and skeptics doubt the climate benefits.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who is heavily invested in the AI industry, is leading the charge to allow tech companies to build data centers on the public lands he oversees.
