While affordability and inflation were top of mind for voters, midterm results will also affect climate policy at virtually every level of government.
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The Australian government has designated a seabed storage site off its northern coast where a Japanese company plans to store hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide using a technology that has divided climate scientists.
The country is expanding solar and wind power, but critics point out its continued reliance on coal.
China secured 23 of the world’s 36 major clean industrial projects financed last year, as emerging economies advanced past both Europe and the US.
Alberta, Canada, invokes ‘agriculture first’ to block wind and solar while putting gas plants on prime land.
Future brightens for U.S. developers in particular after election when voters rejected Trump’s war on clean energy.
The blue wave in the heart of the oil and gas industry came, in part, from public outrage over the state’s buildout of data centers.
Voters sought action on energy costs, corruption, and data centers in an election environmentalists believe sets the stage for renewed climate policy.
Brazil is ending its year-long presidency of the UN climate process with roadmaps aimed at curbing deforestation and accelerating a shift away from fossil fuels to help governments deliver on past climate agreements.
Cop30 host sets out steps to break link with coal, oil, and gas as it aims to move focus from negotiating to implementing.
A new report looks at the advantages of using batteries to meet data center demand — and offers some advice for states.
Two new reports reveal how federal funding cuts have stripped hundreds of millions of dollars from Indigenous communities, jeopardizing renewable energy projects, climate resilience efforts and tribal sovereignty.
Economist William Nordhaus said putting a price on pollution was the best way to reduce climate change. Then came the fossil fuel lobby and the anti-tax movement.
A constitutional right to natural gas, a permitting revamp, and more are on the ballot in states and cities this Election Day.
The Trump administration has proposed a sweeping rollback of federal rules to cut methane emissions from oil and gas operations, but that regulatory broom won’t reach Colorado, which has its own controls on the pollutant.
Gangly, densely rooted, and waxy-leaved, mangrove trees may look strange but don’t let their appearance fool you; these plants are nothing short of magical.
Companies are investing in mega gas plants to help power their data centers, putting them on track to be major polluters.

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