Politics

The United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming.

As governments push oil and mining expansion, thousands of Indigenous leaders and activists gathered in Ecuador to chart another path.

The outlook for storage construction keeps getting brighter, as everyone from the Trump White House to clean energy advocates to AI giants clamors for more.

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.

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.

Homeowners rebuilding in Lahaina have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to unlicensed or unreliable contractors. Government officials have so far failed to hold anyone accountable.

A new study on British Members of Parliament 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.

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.

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