The Trump administration’s latest deal to abandon offshore wind projects and boost investment in fossil fuels is set to deliver a windfall to a private equity firm run by one of the president's major donors.
Causes
Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland, New Jersey — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators.
Billionaire-backed space companies like Blue Origin say their goal is to make life better on Earth. Here's what they're not talking about.
Trump canceled a $15M EPA grant for Tampa’s University Area, halting pollution, flood-control, and community projects.

The great American road trip is in peril
27 August
My family set out to see the beauty of America’s national parks. Along the way, we saw how wildfire, flood, heat, and drought are changing them.
A new study finds that burying logging debris, instead of burning it, could store far more carbon and generate billions in revenue for forest-thinning projects.

MAHA moms take on coal
26 August
Some leaders of the "Make America Healthy Again" movement are challenging a pillar of the U.S. president’s energy agenda.
For years, industry has argued you can't prove which company caused which disaster. A new study says otherwise.
Some of the most impactful changes from climate change have come in the stressed Colorado River basin.
Shoosmith Landfill, just 12 miles south of Richmond, has a documented history of neglect and permit violations.
The case, which the justices will hear in early October, could be consequential for more than two dozen climate liability lawsuits pending against the fossil fuel industry.
Since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, a growing labor movement has addressed the climate crisis and economic inequality.
Western cattlemen are poised to lose almost all opportunity to comment on oil and gas development underneath their property.
Since taking power in 2022, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson's right-wing government has cut gasoline taxes and reduced requirements for petrol suppliers to add low-carbon alternatives to their mix.
Publishers acceded to Florida's requests, watering down information on climate change’s impact; now the state has turned to updating its science standards.
“EPA is trying to have their cake and eat it, too,” said one environmental lawyer.
At the center of protein maxxing, whey products require energy-intensive processing and emissions-intensive milk and cheese production, with climate consequences if unchecked.
At current pace, DEQ program would need 99 years to investigate all the sites of old landfills that pose health risk, NC audit reports.
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