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As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot.

A federal appeals court finds the EPA acted improperly in terminating grants to boost clean energy projects. The Trump administration may appeal to the Supreme Court.

Suncor v. Boulder could determine the fate of dozens of lawsuits filed by cities, counties and states against oil and gas companies.

The president’s push for data centers is driving a boom in gas-burning power plants. Texas is leading the way.

Authorities from five Amazon countries have arrested hundreds in a major crackdown on environmental crime.
The prime minister should consider the potential outcomes of siding with his Bay Street buddies and oil industry bigwigs over climate-beleaguered Canadians.
Residents say they were left out of the decision-making process for a project that includes hundreds of polluting diesel generators.
Officials praised the expansion as a step toward energy reliability and a stronger economy, but advocates worry air pollution could increase in Atlanta.

The 10th Circuit overrules US District Court and says environmental groups can seek tougher state action.

Southeastern Ohio has a serious problem with fracking waste injection underground. That problem is now reaching the surface and threatening our drinking water, writes Marietta College petroleum geologist David L. Jeffery, Ph.D.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Biden-era EPA's soot pollution standards were "unlawful." This summer, federal courts ruled the opposite.

Some 98 percent of active climate scientists say climate change is happening, and is human-caused. Nonetheless, a new study shows the number of climate-change skeptics in Germany has increased. Why is that?

Prolonged droughts have exposed the vulnerability of Zambia and Zimbabwe’s hydropower-dependent electricity systems, triggering severe power shortages and renewing interest in coal.

A developer hosted the first open house for a gigantic Ohio project, with no signs of organized resistance.

“What seems to be important,” wrote the British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of fuel is responsible.”

Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. How much of her rhetoric is actually true?
The project is under investigation for allegedly beginning construction before obtaining required air permits as regulators consider whether privately operated power plants can legally serve data centers.
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