Trump's EPA Chief is reshaping food and farming: What you need to know

The legendarily anti-EPA Scott Pruitt is trying to undo the agency’s work through rollbacks, inaction, and decimating its workforce.

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Burgum declares offshore wind ‘bad for everybody’

The Interior secretary predicted that the Republican megalaw would kill the U.S. industry.

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AI data centers create fury from Mexico to Ireland

As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.

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South Texas data center to use untapped windfarm energy

A new data center in Texas will draw power directly from a nearby wind farm’s surplus energy, using otherwise wasted electricity to fuel Bitcoin and artificial intelligence operations.

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Why Democrats aren't talking about climate change much anymore

As Democrats reflect on the 2024 election, talking about the "planetary emergency" is out, and "cheap energy" is in.

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Global use of coal hit record high in 2024

Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite ‘exponential’ growth of renewables.

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Climate-warming methane emissions from the world’s biggest livestock companies are bigger than from major oil and gas companies

Ahead of the United Nations climate talks in Brazil, advocacy groups are pushing for companies and governments to set meaningful emissions targets to lower emissions from livestock.

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Your meat’s carbon ‘hoofprint’ depends on where you live, study finds

A new analysis of more than 3,000 U.S. cities shows that the climate impact of eating beef, pork and chicken varies widely depending on where the meat is produced and consumed.

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