The Department of Defense has essentially frozen permitting for new wind installations over the last year, preventing more than 155 projects from moving forward.
Politics
As the world races toward electric vehicles, the United States risks becoming the Cuba of gas cars — left behind with outdated guzzlers.
The changes are costing homeowners money. But they also reflect a changing grid — and the need for home batteries.
A new study finds climate anxiety in Tampa Bay falls hardest on the lower-income residents already most exposed to heat, flooding, and rising bills — while wealthier neighbors stay buffered from threats.
Trump claimed without evidence that the manual was “fraudulent, biased, and misleading.”
Deadly floods expose poor urban planning, overpopulation, and spread of informal settlements on disaster-prone land — a problem authorities are struggling to manage.
International climate investors have largely ignored local governments in an economic system geared toward nations. Some leaders want to change that.
As the United States sizzled through heat waves, the government removed some of its most actionable advice about how to conserve energy.
As connection queues grow, data center companies propose to build out their own power, with many of them eyeing natural gas turbines.
For now, the state is counting on voluntary cuts among vegetable and pecan farmers. But that might not be enough.
And what people just like you are doing about it.
A major cement manufacturer has been allowed to burn more plastic waste for fuel at its Adelaide site in a decision a local council is seeking to challenge in court.
The Guardian goes on the ground with Brazilian forces fighting to eradicate mining that has destroyed protected areas of Indigenous land.
The administration has allocated $2.7 billion to stymie wind and solar, while backing fossil fuels and nuclear.
Big business made big promises about saving the planet. Following through hasn’t been easy.
The U.S. federal government is increasingly failing to provide local communities assistance after climate change fueled disasters.
A National Academy of Sciences report on extreme climate event attribution confronts political climate denialism with scientific evidence.
In a first, the state could speed up data centers’ grid connection if they bankroll energy-saving residential tech like heat pumps and batteries.
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