It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
Politics
Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away.
Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat.
Indonesia’s president told survivors of last week’s devastating floods that help was arriving to those in need Monday as Asian governments scaled up their responses to a disaster that has left more than 1,000 dead in three countries.
With dwindling oversight, cattle are grazing where they’re not supposed to and in greater numbers or for longer periods than permitted. This can spread invasive plants, pushing out native species and worsening wildfire risk.
There's no question that Maryland needs more, and cleaner, energy, and there's no question that the state is losing farmland at an alarming rate. But the state can achieve the first without worsening the second.
Decades of progress against extreme poverty may stall or reverse, with those living on under $3 a day projected to rise after 2030.
Nearly 90% of proposed Texas petrochemical projects are placed in counties with high poverty and people-of-color populations, worsening pollution burdens.
All prior five-year drilling plans — dating back to 1980 — reference National Environmental Policy Act analyses.
With no consensus among stakeholders, PJM Interconnection’s 10-member board now must craft a policy for surging data-center demand that has already driven up electricity prices for millions.
Chinese solar equipment has been flooding African markets, partly as a ripple effect of the US-China trade war. It's one of several factors helping the continent gain traction with electrification.
As Australians face a maelstrom of interconnected disasters, the climate catastrophe has become just one of many things to doomscroll about
INEOS plans to transform the Nini oil field in the North Sea into a carbon storage site. The company aims to inject liquefied CO2 into depleted oil reservoirs beneath the seabed.

EPA to scrap lifesaving soot pollution limit
26 November
The move could offer an early test of the Trump administration’s aggressive deregulatory agenda.
Phaseout plan gained unexpected momentum at the summit, only to vanish from the final deal and unlock a new stage.
Climate change is increasingly stressing dams, levees, wastewater, and stormwater systems through heavier precipitation events.
Data and aid to fight landslides fueled by bigger fires and intense storms are imperiled under Trump.
The departure points to an intractable conflict between environmental justice groups and the California Air Resources Board over the impacts of carbon markets.
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