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Record heat, two rate hikes and a data center boom have turned utility bills — not climate — into the state’s most volatile issue.
The decision could set a significant precedent for states and cities trying to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate impacts.
Brian O'Neill asked a State Department attorney to set up meetings with officials that would clear the way for his project's gas power plants.
From the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, to sewage problems in Alabama, stalled projects could get new life after federal court rulings.

Rise in new mine proposals, mainly in the states of Odisha and Jharkhand, comes despite a plateau in global demand.

In “Here There Was Cerrado” — the second place winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — Natascha Otoya shows how industrial farms are plowing up the Brazilian savanna, changing the flow of water, and skewing human memory of the landscape.

The Trump administration has shut down websites like climate.gov and other climate data projects. Academics, journalists, and nonprofit organizations are working to rebuild what has been lost.

Cleveland-Cliffs received $500 million for a big green-steel push. Under the Trump administration, the firm is “rescoping” to work that perpetuates coal use and will increase local pollution.

Critics argue U.S. high court justice should recuse himself from upcoming fossil fuel firms’ climate accountability case.

The Trump administration is ending federal support for the flagship annual report on the state of the Arctic and how the region is changing due to climate pollution.

The Trump administration’s mineral agenda will bolster defense technologies and data centers. It’ll also provide a big boost for EV companies.
Brazil's Supreme Court is set to decide cases that could reshape protections for the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous communities.
As Trump’s agencies shrink, narrow their role and reduce enforcement, politically connected Energy Transfer is steering a slow clean-up of fuel it spilled into drinking water near the Delaware River.
The stations can become “underground saunas” in the summer. An $800,000 pilot study could help lower temperatures.
California’s first commercial carbon-burial project is underway, even though the state has yet to adopt rules required by law.

Conservationists have created a "coastal corridor" of ocean-based projects designed to preserve and nourish vulnerable marine life.

The hearing exposed wounds around the legacy of uranium mining on Navajo communities, as well as fresh concerns about in situ recovery.
Utilities serving thousands of Texans exceed legal limits for radium.
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