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A new report from the C.D. Howe Institute says Canada must strengthen job training and improve occupational data to help fossil fuel workers transition into renewable energy roles.

Environmental justice activists have spoken out against coal and iron mining in South Africa, telling a recent human rights hearing that the industry violently undermines the country’s promised energy transition.

Once again the United States is using its economic might to pressure other countries to back down from an effort to limit greenhouse gas pollution.

The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to auction oil and gas leases across millions of acres in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, reversing decades of protections for sensitive Arctic habitats.

Typhoon Rai killed more than 400, displaced nearly 3.2 million, and destroyed more than a million homes in 2021.

Disaster data, revived by former NOAA scientists after federal tracking was cut, highlights the growing toll of climate-fueled disasters on American communities.

The administration is diverting funds that had been set aside for renewable energy to support the island's storm-battered grid.
The United States was once the undisputed leader in atomic energy. Now it is trying to catch up.
The Trump administration stopped updating a database tracking the costs of the country’s worst disasters. A group of scientists has revived it.
The lawsuit fights a White House proclamation exempting 50 chemical manufacturing plants from hard-won restrictions on cancer-causing pollutants.
The Interior secretary predicted that the Republican megalaw would kill the U.S. industry.
As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.

Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite ‘exponential’ growth of renewables.

As Democrats reflect on the 2024 election, talking about the "planetary emergency" is out, and "cheap energy" is in.
Ahead of the United Nations climate talks in Brazil, advocacy groups are pushing for companies and governments to set meaningful emissions targets to lower emissions from livestock.
Feeling anxious about the impacts of climate change is normal, scientists say. But how common is anxiety so bad that it makes it hard to function? A new study puts a big number on it.
The situation had to get pretty bad before people really forced the government to act. But the effort was ultimately successful.
Despite a federal hiring freeze, the Trump administration just appointed a scientist who calls Vance one of his “closest friends” to head the nation’s key environmental health research arm.
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