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An offshore oil drilling platform near Rio de Janeiro.

Legal tests await Trump’s offshore energy agenda in 2026

Federal courts are grappling with the administration's power to curtail wind development and bolster oil and gas drilling off U.S. coasts.
www.eenews.net
Gas and oil pipes attached to dollar sign and planet earth.

Red-state Republicans seek climate ‘liability shield’ for fossil fuel industry

If enacted, Utah and Oklahoma measures would restrict litigation against oil companies over role in climate crisis.

www.theguardian.com
An aerial view of a set of wind turbines atop forested hills

Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout

Aerial photos reveal China’s rapid landscape transformation as wind and solar projects spread from cities to remote deserts.

e360.yale.edu
Aerial view of Marcellus Shale fracking well in Pennsylvania

What a fracking-waste dispute says about Ohio’s energy double standard

Ohio is letting the oil and gas industry put more toxic waste underground despite community concerns — even as the state defers to local opponents of clean energy.

www.canarymedia.com
Fire fighters setting a prescribed burn in a field

After one year of Trump, is anything left of the American Climate Corps?

The federal program shut down before Biden left office, but a handful of state efforts are carrying on with a lower profile.

grist.org
Man splashing water on face for heat relief

New climate reports show ‘unprecedented run of global heat’

Data from multiple international agencies shows the reality of a rapidly warming world.
insideclimatenews.org
Ski lift on a partially snowy mountain with snowmaking equipment

How climate change is reshaping the future of the Winter Olympics

Belgian biathlete Maya Cloetens is concerned about the future of winter sports in a warming world. Training in Grenoble, France, in the hopes of competing in next month's Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, Italy, she's noticed shorter, milder winters with less consistent heavy snow.
apnews.com
A rice field in an Indonesian villa with water flooding the edges

Photo essay: Climate change and deforestation collide in Indonesia’s deadly floods

Millions of people on Sumatra remain displaced by November’s cyclone, showing the dangers of the climate crisis and indiscriminate logging and habitat destruction.
therevelator.org
A concrete apartment block with balconies and aluminum windows

British tenants threaten legal action over hot homes

Residents of flats in south-east London say their homes have excessive heat, with some reaching 43C.
www.bbc.com
An old wooden mining cart on a rusty set of tracks with a green forest in the background

Will an old Pennsylvania coal town get a reboot from AI?

Homer City embraces the prospect of jobs but worries the profits and power from a new gas plant will flow to faraway tech companies.
capitalandmain.com
Energy Secretary Chris Wright speaking at CPAC

Trump cuts to energy projects in blue states were unlawful, judge rules

The Energy Department canceled $7.5 billion in Biden-era energy spending, largely in Democratic-led states, during last year’s government shutdown.
www.nytimes.com
Yellow and white wind turbine towers waiting to be installed

Judge reverses Trump order halting Revolution Wind

Suspending the lease for the Orsted project off Connecticut and Rhode Island was "unreasonable," the federal judge ruled Monday.
www.politico.com
Coal fired electricity power plant along a river with a barge.

Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s

‘Historic’ moment in biggest coal-consuming countries could bring decline in global emissions, analysis says.

www.theguardian.com
Yellow excavator loading rock truck in open pit coal mine

Coal communities accuse Congress of breaking its promise to clean up abandoned mine lands

The House passed a bill last week that would “repurpose” $500 million meant for cleaning up environmental and safety hazards caused by decades of coal mining.
insideclimatenews.org
Smokestacks from a factory spewing smoke and pollution into the air.

U.S. carbon emissions were falling. Why did they go up in 2025?

The rise comes even before the Trump administration’s pro-fossil fuel policies fully take hold, the authors of a Rhodium Group analysis found.
www.washingtonpost.com
black electricity tower under a pink sky during sunset

Data centers, Greenlink, and your electricity bill

Nevada’s $4.2B Greenlink grid project, meant to cut carbon, is boosting power bills as costs soar and AI data-center demand spikes.

nevadacurrent.com
wind turbines under blue sky during daytime

Wyoming's top officials promise to reckon with ever-increasing wind projects, other development

Wyoming residents have urged leaders to slow wind energy projects, citing cumulative impacts on communities, land and water.

wyofile.com
A large drill making a hole in dry earth

Corpus Christi drills wells to prevent looming water crisis

After an industrial building boom on Corpus Christi Bay, the city is drilling wells to meet water demand, and rural Nueces County residents say their own wells are being impacted.
www.texastribune.org
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