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New report examines fossil fuel ties of dozens of Trump administration hires
Aidan Hughes, Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News, InsideClimate News
Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 43 fossil-fuel industry insiders among nominees and appointees to agencies charged with enforcing energy and environmental policy.
Oct 11, 2025, 1:00 PM
Scientists Completed a Damning Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.
Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, Gizmodo.com
Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. A final report was allegedly ready in mid-April.
Oct 11, 2025, 11:00 AM
Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal
Dan Robinson, Theregister.com
High gas prices and surging AI demand send operators back to the dirtiest fuel in the stack US datacenters are experiencing a significant shift toward coal-powered energy due to elevated natural gas prices and rapidly growing electricity demand.…
Oct 10, 2025, 1:44 PM
Clean Energy Transition Still Looks Hopeful Globally Despite Policy Reversals in US
Corin Cesaric, CNET
Global emissions are expected to drop 63% by 2060, according to a new report.
Oct 8, 2025, 10:30 PM
Trump Is Weighing Billions More in Cuts to Clean Energy Projects. Here’s What’s at Stake
Ellyn Lapointe, Gizmodo.com
Last week, the administration nixed more than $7.5 billion in clean energy project funding. New reports suggest that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Oct 8, 2025, 5:30 PM
Trump mulls cutting billions in funds from list of clean energy projects
By Valerie Volcovici, David Shepardson and Nichola Groom, Yahoo Entertainment
The U.S. government is considering cancelling billions of dollars in funding for clean energy programs, including awards for auto manufacturing and carbon...
Oct 8, 2025, 12:19 AM
Environmentalists Warn About AI Data Centers and ‘Forever Chemicals’: ‘This Issue Has been Dangerously Understudied’
Ellyn Lapointe, Gizmodo.com
The surge in new AI data centers has sparked concern among environmentalists and public health experts alike.
Oct 7, 2025, 3:00 PM
A tribe in Arizona planned to connect 600 homes to electricity. Then the funding was cut
Nate Perez, NPR
The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.
Oct 7, 2025, 9:00 AM
Company bids less than a penny per ton in biggest US coal sale in over a decade
MATTHEW BROWN, Yahoo Entertainment
A Navajo tribe-owned company bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana on Monday in the biggest U.S. coal sale ...
Oct 6, 2025, 6:10 PM
Hotel prices lead countries to consider skipping COP30 climate summit
By Kate Abnett, Yahoo Entertainment
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Dozens of countries have yet to secure accommodation at next month's COP30 climate summit in Brazil and some delegates are considering...
Oct 6, 2025, 6:21 AM
Trump is reviving large sales of coal from public lands. Will anyone want it?
MATTHEW BROWN and MEAD GRUVER, Yahoo Entertainment
U.S. officials in the coming days are set to hold the government's biggest coal sales in more than a decade, offering 600 million tons from publicly owned...
Oct 4, 2025, 12:19 PM
There Is No Green Transition Without Consequences
Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic
A new book argues that simply replacing fossil-fuel extraction with critical-mineral mining is no way out of the climate crisis.
Oct 2, 2025, 7:06 PM
Jane Goodall: A Life Dedicated to Science, Environmentalism, and Humbling Men’s Egos
Kady Ruth Ashcraft, Jezebel
In her own words, "I'd have been much better as a mate for Tarzan myself—which is true. I would have been."
Oct 2, 2025, 12:49 PM
Energy Dept. tells employees not to use words including 'climate change' and 'green'
Rebecca Hersher, NPR
The banned words list applies to all work done at the largest federal funder of clean energy technology.
Sep 30, 2025, 2:24 PM
6 Takeaways From NY Climate Week’s Tale Of Two Cities
Joan Michelson, Contributor, Joan Michelson, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanmichelson2/, Forbes
Last week's UNGA and Climate Week was a tale of two cities. Here are six key points from my Climate Week 2025 journey with business & nonprofit leaders and scientists.
Sep 28, 2025, 8:47 PM
Utilities are doing even worse on climate than they were 5 years ago
Jeff St. John, Canary Media, Canarymedia.com
Major U.S. utilities earn an “F” on a new report card because they’re planning to build far too little clean energy and far too many gas-fired power plants.
Sep 28, 2025, 1:00 PM
Camp Pendleton is an oasis from SoCal urban sprawl. Feds now consider unprecedented development
Hannah Fry, Yahoo Entertainment
Talks over the 83-year-old base come as the Trump administration looks to raise money from public lands and roll back open-space protections.
Sep 28, 2025, 10:00 AM
Europe Gave Wright A Polite Hearing, Wants U.S. Gas, Not Its Advice About Wind And Solar
Llewellyn King, Contributor, Llewellyn King, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/llewellynking/, Forbes
In his September swing through Europe, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright talked about an American-European consensus on energy policy. Europe didn’t sign onto it.
Sep 28, 2025, 2:19 AM
Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice
Dan Robinson, Theregister.com
Study finds microgrids with wind, solar, and batteries can be built years sooner and at lower cost than SMRs Renewable energy sources could power datacenters at a lower cost than relying on nuclear generation from small modular reactors (SMRs), claims a recen…
Sep 26, 2025, 3:30 PM
America's blame game over Canada's wildfire smoke misses the point, experts say
BBC News
US officials have blamed Canada for not doing enough to stop its wildfire smoke from wafting south. Climate experts say it’s not so simple.
Sep 25, 2025, 1:17 AM
China makes landmark pledge to cut its climate emissions
BBC News
It is China's first firm goal to reduce emissions but falls well short of what is needed to meet global targets.
Sep 24, 2025, 6:57 PM
Boosting timber harvesting in national forests while cutting public oversight won't solve America's wildfire problem
Tony Cheng, Space.com
In other words, more fire is coming, more often.
Sep 24, 2025, 4:00 PM
Federal judge lifts administration halt of offshore wind farm in New England
Jennifer McDermott, Matthew Daly, Associated Press
A federal judge has ruled that a nearly complete offshore wind project halted by the Trump administration can resume, dealing President Donald Trump a setback in his ongoing effort to restrict the U.S. offshore wind industry. Work on the Revolution Wind proje…
Sep 22, 2025, 10:45 PM
Leaders promised to cut climate pollution, then doubled down on fossil fuels
Jeff Brady, NPR
Ten years after countries promised to cut climate pollution in the Paris Agreement, countries plan to produce more than twice the amount of fossil fuels that would be consistent with that deal.
Sep 22, 2025, 4:01 AM