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The president’s favorite indicator of economic health will have to reckon with the woes of a warming planet.
As global fuel prices surge, electric vehicle adoption is breaking records around the world. These charts tell the story.

While last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act revoked most solar tax credits, it also made equipment from certain countries — including China — ineligible for the few tax credits that remain.

Feds’ new plan doesn’t resolve crop-threatening water shortage and likely will end up in court, two professors reckon.
A majority of coastal wetlands are on track to shift inland or disappear in the coming decades without intervention. That will have major consequences.
Inside futuristic labs, plants are scanned, stressed and analyzed. The aim is to use the results to produce plant strains that can better serve a growing population in a warming world.

Researchers find lung capacity that was stunted by pollution is restored after the introduction of an ultra-low emission zone.

North Carolina’s poultry industry continues to add more birds to already highly concentrated barns, generating millions of tons of manure that is largely unregulated by the state, according to a new report. 
Flaring earlier this month released carcinogenic compounds. Now elected officials are seeking answers from environmental regulators.
Germany’s coalition government is split over putting climate protection in the constitution.
Germany’s coalition government is split over putting climate protection in the constitution.

This red state may be as MAGA as they come, but its Republican leaders, voters, and businesses have no interest in the president’s war on renewable energy.

In a summer of record-breaking heat, a congressional committee has moved to block the Biden-era proposal, before the Occupational Safety and Health Administration can. What gives?

The country touts plans for what could be North America’s largest-ever clean energy investment, while doubling down on oil.

A POLITICO analysis finds that while the administration wiped out hundreds of billions in clean energy tax breaks, spending has been harder to unwind.

The water level at Lake Powell has fallen to a record low in another sign of crisis along the Colorado River.

Western automakers ignored smaller markets like Argentina. But China saw potential — and that bet is paying off.

The war in Iran has drawn attention to something invisible to most Australians — we use a lot of diesel to keep this country running. 
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