A troubling trend has shown up in some communities around the U.S.: Public officials are being inundated with seemingly fake public feedback that aims to block renewable energy and promote fossil fuels.
Politics
A new study of British MPs finds a persistent gap between what lawmakers believe the public thinks about climate policy and what polls actually show. The misperception may be holding climate legislation back.
The Trump administration will soon announce sharply lower vehicle fuel-economy standards, reversing a push by the prior administration to force automakers to build more fuel-efficient vehicles, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says.
More than 20 years after passing a landmark clean energy law, the state gets more of its power from burning coal waste than from solar.
Savings grow as energy prices in Great Britain rise and cost of panel installation falls, analysis finds.
Teaming up to buy solar can get residents deep discounts. Virginia is the first to try a statewide campaign as utility bills rise and data centers stress the grid.
Electric cars are cleaner to drive — but their tires pose a pollution problem. Better materials could help fix the issue.
The EPA’s retreat from its role guarding clean air and water will have lasting effects on public health, critics fear.
The data center backlash is still, like a tidal wave, growing.
For half a century, Philip Fearnside has documented how roads, dams, cattle ranching, and other development projects drive Amazon deforestation and impose steep climate and biodiversity costs.
Andy Burnham urged to seek consensus over response to extreme heat and forthcoming ‘super El Niño’
A coalition of solar entrepreneurs and venture capitalists mounted a pugilistic “Revenge Tour” to show candidates eager to hamper their industry that they’ll fight back. So far, it’s working.
Climate change has become a less prominent election-year issue for Democrats as voters say concerns such as affordability are more pressing.
Like in all previous COPs, it proved difficult to achieve unanimity over a legally binding all-encompassing document, especially at a time when the big powers question the mere principle of multilateralism.
Candidates in both parties turn on the industry while a bill redefining coal and gas as “clean” energy moves quietly in the statehouse.
The Trump administration’s latest deal to abandon offshore wind projects and boost investment in fossil fuels is set to deliver a windfall to a private equity firm run by one of the president's major donors.

Rooftop solar is having a rough one
28 August
New tariffs and expired tax credits have put a dent in U.S. panel sales; but there’s reason for optimism.
The ENSO Blog tracked all things El Niño and La Niña, offering newly available data collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to the public in digestible language.
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