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Data: Resources for the Future; Note: Central RFF scenario ; Chart: Ben Geman/Axios The Senate permitting plan would cut emissions from power plants in the near term and help keep electricity prices down, a new analysis finds. Why it matter

Alliant to receive $5.1 billion loan to boost energy reliability Beloit Daily News

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The water was rising rapidly. It had already reached Cayni Ali’s waist. Her home, five meters from the flooded River Juba

Over the course of 2012, Donald Trump tweeted at least 59 times about energy prices. “Gas prices are at crazy levels—fire Obama!” he posted in late October of that year, when the average cost of a gallon of gasoline was $3.69. Obama was ree

Inside Climate News - The rapid decline of Antarctic sea ice since 2016 has triggered a dramatic shift in a crucial part of Earth’s climate system, scientists say. In a paper published Wednesday, researchers documented a sharp salinity incr

The monster is coming… UN issues call to arms to combat off-the-charts El Niño The El Niño weather phenomenon gripping...

As the Trump administration moves to reconsider permits for the Revolution Wind project, which started providing power to New England homes in March of this year, a new Data for Progress survey finds that voters are broadly supportive of of

The EPA projects Trump’s methane rollback would only lower 2027 U.S. crude prices 11 cents a barrel, while lifting domestic oil output 0.09%.

Seawater surges into low-lying communities from San Diego to San Francisco Bay Area, submerging streets, homes and businesses Historic high tides have caused chaos up and down the California coast this week, as parts of the state were inund

Republicans are doing everything that has worked in the past to rally the base in the Trump era. The president is holding daily rallies, billionaires have filled dark-money super PACs with cash, ads are flooding the airwaves, and conservati

Earlier this month, after Hurricane Isaias made landfall on the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 hurricane, the emergency management expert Laura Myers got a call from a meteorologist in Alabama. Myers is director of the University of Alabama’s C

Melting sea ice protects the deep ocean from warming – but when sea ice levels declined, the system began to break down.

Carbon dioxide reached 426.8 parts per million, up from 377.5 when the UN weather agency began its bulletin in 2004

Software can fix a lot of this — if lawmakers let it.

BILLINGS, Mont. — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration is "terminating" a Biden-era rule that aimed to cut planet-warming emissions of methane from oil and gas drilling. Trump said during a campaign rally in Texas tha

"That was Elon." James Talarico said it plainly at a rally in Midland on Tuesday, pointing at the wave of attack ads flooding Texas airwaves and naming the billionaire paying for them. The Texas Democrat is closing his Senate campaign again

Both of these threats have the same roots: private entities seeking to cash in. We have the power to stand against them A summer of extreme heat, entire villages obliterated in Nepal, a super El Niño breaking records, Exxon publicly saying

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Locals in a rural area of California were recently startled to see dazzlingly bright light shining down from nearby mounta

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Critics warn of climate danger as president in Texas claims change will save companies and consumers billions Donald Trump announced his administration is “terminating” Biden-era regulations holding oil and gas companies accountable for lar

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A group of Democratic senators is expressing distrust that the Trump administration will treat renewable energy fairly under a bipartisan permitting reform bill — and they are calling on the administration to restore climate funding it term