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Many manufacturers burn fossil fuels to make snacks, materials, and chemicals. High electricity costs are complicating their efforts to switch to cleaner technologies.

Europe’s solar and wind farms are actively choosing not to produce energy, as experts warn more investment is needed in storage and flexible technologies.

The Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division recently changed its name to the Energy and Natural Resources Division and added “unleashing American energy” to its mission.

The Trump administration announced Monday that it is exempting power plants that only serve data centers and do not connect to the broader grid from pollution limits that seek to prevent acid rain.

The Western U.S. is sitting on billions of tons of unmined coal, a new report from the U.S. Department of the Interior finds.

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns' government promised no new coal mines but permits expanding existing sites, despite being behind on climate targets.

Developing Asian nations, scarred by Middle East supply shocks, are working to scale back their reliance on imported fuels, including liquefied natural gas.
With a wrongful death suit among scores of cases creeping toward trial, oil executives might have to defend themselves to a jury soon.

The Forest Service remains stretched on the Sawtooth National Recreation Area in Idaho — a place with ties to key agency leaders — and is leaning on volunteer groups for help.

The judge rejected the Trump administration’s interpretation of a recent court ruling and ordered officials to release funds for a $2.8 billion federal program.
New polling finds broad agreement that the climate crisis is worsening heat, floods, and wildfires.
Record heat, a wildfire, and an unprecedented stage modification highlighted the growing challenge global warming poses to endurance sports.

Team in Ohio finds swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite the study being scaled back by Trump cuts.

Kentuckians living along the route of the proposed natural gas pipeline don't believe enough is being done to address safety and enviornmental concerns.

An expert warns that would require 200 billion liters of water and explode Canada’s emissions.

As cash flows into Pennsylvania governor's race, ethical questions over Stacy Garrity's fracking income loom.

After Canadian wildfire smoke blanketed the Northeast, environmental justice advocates renewed calls for better air quality monitoring in Massachusetts’s most disadvantaged communities.

The economic benefits of big projects come with costs for the environment and climate.
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