Cleaning up oilfield pollution in arid West Texas is costly and complicated. The bankruptcy process allows companies to move on while the public pays the price.
Many home insurance policies don’t cover the full cost of rebuilding after a disaster, a problem that’s set to grow along with the impacts of climate change.
Even as administration officials vowed this week to head off scheduled retirements, some aging plants are now breaking, and costs could run to the billions.
A federal judge has cleared the way for a New York offshore wind project to resume construction. It’s a victory for the developer who said a Trump administration order to pause it would likely kill the project in a matter of days.
A new report shows some limited progress on reducing carbon pollution in 2023 — the latest year for which data is available. But experts worry the trend may reverse after recent clawbacks of several climate measures.
The same industry that will benefit from Trump’s plan already turned the Louisiana coast into a dumping ground, leaving infrastructure behind to decay.
The fate of the world’s largest island has outsize importance for billions of people on the planet, because as the climate warms, Greenland is losing ice. That has consequences.
