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Unless Gov. Newsom blocks the bill, it will legalize plug-in solar in one of the world’s biggest economies.

The first large site for testing wave energy technologies in the continental U.S. is open, after securing a key green-energy approval from the Trump administration.
My family set out to see the beauty of America’s national parks. Along the way, we saw how wildfire, flood, heat, and drought are changing them.
A new study finds that burying logging debris, instead of burning it, could store far more carbon and generate billions in revenue for forest-thinning projects.

Trump canceled a $15M EPA grant for Tampa’s University Area, halting pollution, flood-control and community projects.

France is temporarily relaxing strict production rules for several iconic cheeses as drought and record heat leave pastures severely depleted.

The Department of Energy’s moonshot funding program is working. President Trump seems inclined to keep it.

The Maine Public Utilities Commission will finally move forward with plans for a new transmission line to northern Maine and an 800 megawatt wind project.

WyoFile joined a coalition of nonprofit newsrooms in six Western states to examine how the changes are impacting our ability to fight fires amid increasingly destructive conditions.

Some leaders of the "Make America Healthy Again" movement are challenging a pillar of the U.S. president’s energy agenda.

For years, industry has argued you can't prove which company caused which disaster. A new study says otherwise.

Some of the most impactful changes from climate change have come in the stressed Colorado River basin.

With a predominantly renewable energy mix, Brazil has become an attractive destination for data centers.

Shoosmith Landfill, just 12 miles south of Richmond, has a documented history of neglect and permit violations.

The new documentary, "To Use a Mountain," spotlights the pain and triumph of resisting government efforts to turn parts of the rural U.S. into disposal sites.

The case, which the justices will hear in early October, could be consequential for more than two dozen climate liability lawsuits pending against the fossil fuel industry.

Since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, a growing labor movement has addressed the climate crisis and economic inequality.

As climate change makes cities around the world unlivable, one city is using art and new infrastructure to adapt.
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