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As scientists sound the alarm, the world is committing to climate action “with or without the United States.”
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
Lawmakers approved proposals to slightly weaken EU carbon emissions targets for 2040. Another vote on corporate supply chain standards was even more contentious as it required populist support to pass.
An Ohio Senate measure updating the state’s orphan well program is getting pushback from environmentalists, counties, and farmers.
Gov. Gavin Newsom made green energy a priority. But as President Donald Trump makes oil the focus of U.S. energy policy, even California considers “Drill, baby, drill.”

Bill Gates has reignited debate over a climate agenda that prioritizes emissions cuts over the immediate needs of countries already facing deadly climate impacts.

Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating.

Meat giant JBS is steering a private-sector “food systems” push to shape climate policy at COP30, promoting productivity-focused recommendations.

As the federal government earmarks resource extraction projects in the ‘national interest,’ the companies building them are deepening ties to CSIS.

Last year the WA government commissioned a report on whether LNG exports to Asia were helping decarbonization efforts — but the final report is vastly different to the draft, and analysts and activists say it has been doctored.

Energy analysts and environmentalists say diesel generators are expensive, noisy, highly polluting and exempt from Clean Air Act regulations in times of energy “emergencies.”
In a sign of the Trump administration’s novel approach to the funding gap, the administrator traveled for 16 days during the shutdown.
In the wake of a federal government investigation, a worker at major oil and gas company Inpex has spoken out, raising fears of exposure to dangerous air pollutants and claims of a toxic workplace where staff concerns are brushed aside.

Indigenous and political activists broke through security lines at the UN’s COP30 climate talks in Belém, Brazil, shouting “our forests are not for sale” as they protested deforestation and oil exploration in the Amazon.

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A vote to deny Sable Offshore permits to restart production builds on a series of lawsuits and an accusation of insider trading, but the CEO wants the president to help it overcome its setbacks.
Resistance from landowners is visible across the country as companies pursue new oil, gas and carbon projects.
The International Energy Agency once projected that oil and gas demand could level off by 2030. Now it’s backing off, sort of.
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