President Trump blocked Massachusetts from unlocking new offshore wind from its own coasts, dealing a crucial blow to the state’s energy transition. So Gov. Maura Healey is testing the waters to the north instead.
Oil and gas production has directly and indirectly generated record amounts of hard-to-dispose-of oilfield wastewater, raised the specter of $1.6 billion in cleanup costs for abandoned wells and fouled the air in the oilfields.
The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, spoke at COP31, a meeting aimed at reducing emissions, amid a sharp drop in attendance by world leaders.
China is leading the world in moving away from fossil fuels, and the rest of the globe — including the U.S. — must now follow, the former U.S. secretary of state, John Kerry says.
For the first time in 30 years, the state’s utility commission will have a Democratic majority — and they’re targeting Georgia Power’s costly fossil gas buildout.
As world leaders arrive at United Nations climate talks in the Turkish resort town of Antalya, calling for urgent climate action, co-host Turkey also wants to halve the amount of global waste in the next decade.
TotalEnergies has won plaudits for voluntary steps to tackle the planet-warning gas. So why does it fund moves to delay, dilute, or dismantle regulation?
Lawmakers agreed with a Public Service Commission rule that would keep a requirement for electrical generation capacity on coal-fired plants as a goal, rather than a mandate.
The transition to electric vehicles should be moving apace, but it is not. And why? Incompetence, expedience, and cowardice, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot.
