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The Trump administration’s top water official heads to Capitol Hill as the Interior Department readies politically wrenching decisions for the drought-shriveled Colorado River.

Even as President Donald Trump boosts coal over clean energy, solar power is hitting new milestones in the U.S. and remains the leading source of new power.

JPMorgan topped the list of bankers embracing “disaster capitalism” as Trump’s climate deregulation policies inspire more industry investments, new report finds.

For Diane Wilson, the 8,000-mile trip to Formosa Plastics’ annual shareholder meeting in Taipei was part of a strategy of being relentless.

JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say.

EPA and Justice Department officials were looking into potential criminal violations by the vast coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice. Then the Office of the Deputy Attorney General told them “pencils down.”

The Republican-backed House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act, which could rein in some data center costs but extend the life of costly old coal plants.

Delaware legislators are scrambling to address concerns about data centers raising residents’ energy bills before the legislative session ends.
In the nation’s fastest-warming state with a multi-billion-dollar fishing industry and storm-threatened coastal communities, scientists say the federal government’s decommission of a deepwater sensor system is ill-timed and wrong-headed.
The Iran war is pushing countries to prioritize domestic energy in order to protect themselves from volatile oil and natural gas markets.
State leaders are rolling out energy and environmental guardrails for data centers as politics heat up over the sprawling AI campuses.
U.S. withdrawal means Europe is a lifeline for ocean research, although a poorer one.
In its push for more meat eating, MAHA faces a challenging truth: current and future meat demand depends almost entirely on massive, concentrated animal feeding operations, CAFOs.

Alberta and Ottawa want to build a new pipeline while reducing emissions from the oilsands — but that second goal just got a lot less ambitious.

Colombia’s upcoming presidential runoff pits rival visions on the Amazon, Indigenous rights, and energy: phase out fossil fuels or expand drilling.

The president announced a total of $700 million in federal money to reinvigorate the domestic coal industry, which has been in decline for decades.
Industry executives said the loss of oil through the Strait of Hormuz is draining petroleum inventories to dangerously low levels.
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