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Members of America’s largest power grid can’t agree on how to power data centers

With no consensus among stakeholders, PJM Interconnection’s 10-member board now must craft a policy for surging data-center demand that has already driven up electricity prices for millions.
insideclimatenews.org
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Africa's solar power revolution driven by China's investment

Chinese solar equipment has been flooding African markets, partly as a ripple effect of the US-China trade war. It's one of several factors helping the continent gain traction with electrification.
www.dw.com
Depiction of Planet Earth half-engulfed by raging inferno.

Opinion: To defeat the global Goliaths devastating our planet, we must raise an army of Davids

As Australians face a maelstrom of interconnected disasters, the climate catastrophe has become just one of many things to doomscroll about
www.theguardian.com
Sunset over the Cromarty Firth and North Sea oil platforms

EU's first full-scale offshore carbon storage facility eyes 2026 start

INEOS plans to transform the Nini oil field in the North Sea into a carbon storage site. The company aims to inject liquefied CO2 into depleted oil reservoirs beneath the seabed.
apnews.com
Woman holding up a megaphone facing a refinery across a green field.

Brazil aims for alternative route to fossil fuel road map after COP30 failure

Phaseout plan gained unexpected momentum at the summit, only to vanish from the final deal and unlock a new stage.
news.mongabay.com
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Growing tensions with air regulator lead top California environmental justice advisor to resign

The departure points to an intractable conflict between environmental justice groups and the California Air Resources Board over the impacts of carbon markets.
insideclimatenews.org
a woman sitting in a field holding a bunch of flowers.

‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement

At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to accelerate its recovery.

www.theguardian.com
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How China silences environmental reporters beyond its borders

Journalists who report on the harms caused by China’s overseas infrastructure buildout in Africa face intimidation, surveillance and police pressure.
insideclimatenews.org
Video camera on a tripod facing a green hedge.

This former oil worker is now exposing dirty methane emissions

After fracking fouled her air and water, Sharon Wilson devoted her life to documenting the emissions fueling the climate crisis.
atmos.earth
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The secret to tackling the climate crisis could be right under our feet. Here’s why

Despite being one of the largest natural carbon sinks, most nations exclude soil from their climate plans.
www.euronews.com
an aerial view of a data center flanked by trees, roads and green fields.

How batteries, not natural gas, can power the data center boom

Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power the growing number of A.I. data centers in the U.S. Jigar Shah, a former Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can help balance the grid, lower electricity bills, and support renewable energy.
e360.yale.edu
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Republican split widens as Texas regulator bashes carbon capture

A growing number of GOP elected officials question the use of carbon capture and storage for oil and gas projects.
www.eenews.net
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UN's COP30 in Brazil has ended. Experts eye the path forward on climate

Experts have mixed reactions to the recent U.N. climate talks in the Amazon. The talks, known as COP30, ended without a clear plan to phase out fossil fuels. U.N.
apnews.com
A data center situated in a green landscape and flanked by roads and trees.

How to make data centers less thirsty

There’s a way to reduce both the climate and water harms of data centers: build them in places with lots of wind and solar energy.
grist.org
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US companies hold the line at climate talks despite Trump

Despite the U.S. government souring on the global climate agenda ahead of the COP30 summit, American companies did not shy away.
www.reuters.com
British Columbia landscape with hydro dam, powerlines and snowcapped Canadian Rockies

The head of BC Hydro on wind power, dam megaprojects and more

Glen Clark sat down for a wide-ranging interview with The Tyee.
thetyee.ca
Indigenous protesters take part on a demonstration at COP30 in Belém, Brazil

Oil producers, but maybe not the planet, get a win as climate talks end

The final agreement, with no direct mention of the fossil fuels dangerously heating Earth, was a victory for countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia, diplomats said.
www.nytimes.com
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Takeaways from the COP30 climate summit in Brazil

This year's U.N. climate change summit ended with a tenuous compromise for a deal that skipped over most countries' key demands but for one: committing wealthy countries to triple their spending to help others adapt to global warming.
www.reuters.com
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