Five years after virtually every world leader agreed to “phase down” the burning of coal for climate reasons, the fuel is more widely used than ever.
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Gubernatorial nominee Tom Tiffany flipped on data centers, outflanked his Democratic rival, and tied the issue to renewable projects he has opposed for years.
Former federal environmental officials are sounding an alarm in a new report about potential health impacts from data center pollution amidst what they see as a breakdown in oversight.
Emissions of planet-heating methane and carbon dioxide from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis, paper says
A sweeping yet vaguely worded national emergency declaration targeting Chinese grid tech could put gigawatts of grid battery projects on uncertain legal ground.
Greenland ice reveals a surprising shift in industrial pollution after 1990 that could help explain recent Arctic warming.

States sue feds over endangered species rollbacks
10 September
A coalition of state attorneys general filed a pair of lawsuits Wednesday challenging the Trump administration’s rollbacks of protections for endangered species.
Are four years of pro-environment policies about to come to an end?
Scientific evidence has never been stronger. Why aren’t more people making the link?
Europe just opened a carbon capture and storage plant billed as the continent's largest. But global climate scenarios call for far more capacity than exists anywhere on Earth.
Iowa Environmental Council’s 2026 report on Iowa’s electric generation shows a “reversal” in progress toward renewable sources.
Brown University researchers found that a small amount of testimony from fossil fuel lobbyists opposing polluter pay laws has had greater power than massive public support.
Crop-residue burning contributes substantially to black carbon levels in North India, especially during the post-monsoon season.
Data centers have emerged as a central battleground in the 2026 midterm elections. As they have, a Columbus man has spent many months traveling the country learning what the fuss is about.
The world’s second-largest oil consumer cut its use by 9 percent as the Iran war crimped supply. The drop could accelerate China’s pivot away from the fossil fuel.
Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis.
Spanish scientists and researchers from Europe and the U.S. compiled data from 46 oceanographic campaigns carried out between 1976 and 2018 to study changes in the Mediterranean and the impact of climate change.
At issue is a Clean Water Act provision that has long given states a role in decision-making on infrastructure that would affect streams and wetlands.
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