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Trump repeals U.S. government’s power to regulate climate

Nearly 17 years after the Environmental Protection Agency declared that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten the public’s health and welfare, the agency on Thursday rescinded the landmark legal opinion underpinning a wave of federal policies aimed at climate change.

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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum U.S. Secretary of the Interior speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)

Burgum calls energy transition a ‘fantasy’ as EPA guts climate regulations

The Interior secretary cast doubt on widely accepted climate science and touted plans to build out the nation’s reserves of critical minerals.
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China could reach peak greenhouse gas emissions sooner than Beijing planned, new report suggests

Falling emissions from the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter could mean a global turning point.
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Offshore wind showed up big during the East Coast’s brutal cold

America’s two utility-scale offshore wind farms performed as well as gas power plants and better than coal in January — including during Winter Storm Fern.
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The energy boom is coming for Great Lakes water

Delve into the relationship between Great Lakes water and energy, and its implications for the region's future.
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Industrial complex with polluting smoke rising from stacks.

As the Trump EPA prepares to revoke key legal finding on climate change, what happens next?

By revoking its 17-year-old scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will demolish the legal underpinning of its authority to act on climate change under the Clean Air Act.

insideclimatenews.org
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European chemical giants plot to weaken EU’s flagship climate policy

The ultra-polluting sector says the EU’s carbon price is putting it out of business.
www.politico.eu
Vector illustration of large rechargeable lithium-ion battery energy storage stationary for renewable electric power station generation.

Stuck with an empty factory, Ford seeks a new market

The company, long focused on cars and trucks, plans to begin manufacturing large batteries used by utilities, data centers, other businesses and homeowners.
www.nytimes.com
Battle ships heading into the sunset

Water, power, and the future of conflict

Explore the rise of water as a geopolitical weapon influencing global security, economics, and environmental stability in 2026.
www.circleofblue.org
person at sink filling a glass with water.

Their water was undrinkable. Oklahoma's oil regulators failed to help

State regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to find the culprit — then closed the case.
www.propublica.org
A factory or coal power plant with a smoke stack in the distance.

Citing national security, Trump has abandoned fenceline monitoring at coke ovens

The administration ended a program that documented excessive levels of a carcinogen at industrial facilities across the country. Environmental groups who say the move leaves polluted communities behind have filed suit.
insideclimatenews.org
An oil pump jack in a dry field

New Mexico again debates greenhouse gas reductions as snow melts

Lawmakers table bill to expand the use of oilfield wastewater and shoot down another that would restrict drone use around “critical” infrastructure.

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U.S. Congressman Jim Jordan speaking at the 2015 Defending the American Dream Summit

Federal Judicial Center pulls climate change chapter from official manual for U.S. judges

The “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence” — updated for the first time in 15 years — eliminates some 90 pages about climate science and comes just as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.
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Trump EPA to take its biggest swing yet against climate change rules

With its plans to revoke the endangerment finding, the administration is gambling that the U.S. Supreme Court will allow it to completely avoid regulating the nation’s top greenhouse gas sources.

www.eenews.net
Aerial view of coal power plant with black smoke moving upwards polluting atmosphere at sunset.

Trump will order Defense Department to buy coal power

Climate and security experts say the plan is outdated and could place the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage.
insideclimatenews.org
smog-shrouded cityscape

‘The trend is irreversible’: has Romania shattered the link between economic growth and high emissions?

Emissions have plunged 75% since communist times in the birthplace of big oil – but for some the transition has been brutal.

www.theguardian.com
A view of Boston Harbor with ferries nearing a dock

Mass. climate chief missed her own deadline to calculate the cost of state’s climate commitments

Melissa Hoffer set out to put a price tag on the state’s net-zero climate commitment and develop a menu of options for how to pay for it. That price is still not yet known more than a year after the report was due.

commonwealthbeacon.org
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Endangerment finding: Trump allies near 'total victory' in wiping out U.S. climate regulation

A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.
www.nytimes.com
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