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.
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.
Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and Greg Brockman are among the Silicon Valley megadonors reportedly linked to a campaign to influence voters in a state at the heart of the data center boom.
As Congress moves to expand year-round ethanol sales, a federal loophole is allowing ethanol plants to release large amounts of air pollution with limited oversight, shifting the health costs onto communities far beyond the facilities themselves.
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.
