‘Devastating’ UK forest fires show urgent action is needed by 2030 to save the planet, he says
Politics
At the start of 2026, only Utah had legalized plug-in solar. Eight other states have followed suit in an effort to help people lower their sky-high energy bills.
Tariffs on everything from electric vehicles to grid components could slow the energy transition.
The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that will drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly maintained, and prone to leaking methane, the highly potent greenhouse gas.
It's one of the first successful legal challenges to the administration’s “energy emergency” agenda.
Expanding deforestation in Indonesia caused by the country’s wood pellet and chip industry is putting further pressure on tropical forests, Key Biodiversity Areas, and Indigenous territories in the archipelago, according to a new satellite analysis.
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
A Georgia solar-panel factory — and the jobs it provides — is making renewable energy fans out of state Republicans.
Trump-supporting states are driving the solar boom even as Republican policies complicate its future.

How California is kicking its natural gas habit
11 September
Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity.
Five years after virtually every world leader agreed to “phase down” the burning of coal for climate reasons, the fuel is more widely used than ever.
Gubernatorial nominee Tom Tiffany flipped on data centers, outflanked his Democratic rival, and tied the issue to renewable projects he has opposed for years.
Former federal environmental officials are sounding an alarm in a new report about potential health impacts from data center pollution amidst what they see as a breakdown in oversight.
It's a grim moment for what was a booming industry in the state, but EV makers are still forging ahead.
A sweeping yet vaguely worded national emergency declaration targeting Chinese grid tech could put gigawatts of grid battery projects on uncertain legal ground.
Simply owning an air conditioner isn’t enough for residents who can’t afford to use them.

States sue feds over endangered species rollbacks
10 September
A coalition of state attorneys general filed a pair of lawsuits Wednesday challenging the Trump administration’s rollbacks of protections for endangered species.
Are four years of pro-environment policies about to come to an end?
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