European climate experts say the pro-fossil fuel arguments are based on climate disinformation.| Inside Climate News
Warming and habitat loss diminished sage grouse populations 80 percent since 1965, putting them on the brink of an endangered listing. Western states, the federal government and energy and ranching interests are struggling to prevent that.| Inside Climate News
Bills a subcommittee considered this week would streamline the approval of new coal leases and exempt some coal projects from environmental reviews.| Inside Climate News
Kayaking on the river reveals signs of life that earlier had been stamped out. The city’s first open-water swim in nearly a century is planned there this month.| Inside Climate News
Along the Delaware River, the communities of Chester and Eddystone are facing the possibility of a new $7 billion liquified gas facility that will export Pennsylvania’s plentiful fracked gas.| Inside Climate News
Republican attorneys general accuse three of the world’s biggest asset managers of conspiring to depress U.S. coal output. It’s a first-of-its-kind and closely watched test of whether corporate alliances on climate efforts violate antitrust laws.| Inside Climate News
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The president has pledged to combat transnational drug organizations. Yet these groups make vast sums from environmental crimes, and his administration has gutted personnel and programs that targeted them, a new report shows.| Inside Climate News
A coalition of environmental groups is embroiled in a year-long fight with an Alliant Energy subsidiary over its discharge of groundwater possibly contaminated with coal combustion residuals.| Inside Climate News
T1 Energy of Texas is among the companies that aim to build supply chains for the renewable energy source in this country and reduce dependence on Asian producers.| Inside Climate News
The project was already 80 percent complete and slated to provide enough energy to power more than 350,000 homes.| Inside Climate News
A small percentage of species protected by the law have ever recovered, but an even smaller fraction have gone extinct. With all the threats they face, including long-shrinking federal support, that’s an achievement, scientists note.| Inside Climate News
Nine years after the Gadsden Steam Plant stopped burning coal, its unlined coal ash pond is still polluting Alabama groundwater, records show.| Inside Climate News
The agency said it’s concerned that farmland is being consumed by wind and solar facilities—which occupy a tiny fraction of the country’s productive acres.| Inside Climate News
Neighborhood-scale decarbonization is an efficient way to electrify neighborhoods that might otherwise be left behind.| Inside Climate News
President Donald Trump signed an executive order behind closed doors on Thursday that aims to fast-track mining projects across the country and prioritize mineral production on public lands with suitable resources—a decision natural resource lawyers and environmentalists say has the potential to dismantle protected landscapes like national monuments as well as threaten endangered species, waterways […]| Inside Climate News
The executive order declared a “National Energy Emergency” and directed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to act swiftly on project reviews.| Inside Climate News
Colorado College’s annual survey included residents of eight Western states, the majority of whom identified as politically conservative or moderate.| Inside Climate News
Years of advocacy led to the creation of Chuckwalla and Sáttítla Highlands national monuments in California early this year, but they may soon be dismantled.| Inside Climate News
A proposed rule from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would change the definition of “harm” to an endangered species, effectively allowing such activities as logging and oil drilling to be approved even if they harm protected plant and animal habitats.| Inside Climate News
The Department of Agriculture issued an “Emergency Situation Determination” that environmental groups say will speed the cutting of old-growth trees.| Inside Climate News
The Trump and DeSantis administrations have characterized the region as a treacherous swamp where little more than alligators and pythons reside. The Miccosukee call this place home—and have so for generations.| Inside Climate News
The state’s grid operator reported less than a 1 percent chance of emergency events.| Inside Climate News
Outbreaks from ocean pathogens that can be deadly to marine life and even threaten humans are more frequent in overheated waters.| Inside Climate News
Fungal communities hidden underground support 80 percent of land plants around the world and store 13 billion tons of carbon annually. But new research mapping their locations reveal few concentrations of the vital fungi are protected.| Inside Climate News
Groups submitting comments on the latest stage of the Line 5 oil pipeline project in Michigan argue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has failed to complete adequate analyses of climate change impacts and greenhouse gas emissions. On May 30, the Corps’ Detroit district released its draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Enbridge Energy […]| Inside Climate News
Workers were manufacturing pipeline to replace a ruptured section of carbon dioxide line that sent 45 people to the hospital in Mississippi.| Inside Climate News
It depends on multiple factors. But as one expert put it, “if they’re not producing those barrels of oil, somebody else will.”| Inside Climate News
EPA’s chief is also trying to claw back $20 billion, implying wrongdoing. Attorneys call it an evidence-free tactic to get around judges’ orders.| Inside Climate News
The Big Sky State hopes to get federal incentives to store captured carbon under public lands, but for many residents near the project, the threat is greater than the opportunity.| Inside Climate News
The change, revealed through public records, follows an activist campaign pushing for insurers to drop fossil fuels. But the reason is unclear.| Inside Climate News
One expert speaking at a forum on insurance and housing says climate change could soon mark a “death spiral” for the financial industry in parts of the country.| Inside Climate News
The bills would have increased small-scale solar projects and energy storage.| Inside Climate News
A new report from the American Lung Association notes a drastic decline in air quality and raises health alarms. Climate change and Trump administration actions, experts warn, will worsen the trend.| Inside Climate News
El Paso Water broke ground on the first U.S. facility that will treat wastewater for direct re-use in a city water supply, using a four-step process to transform wastewater into clean, potable drinking water.| Inside Climate News
A working group has proposed a special electric rate for “distributed energy resources” to help break a current interconnection backlog holding up smaller-scale wind and solar projects.| Inside Climate News
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Following a home explosion that killed one and critically injured another, residents want to know more about the mine under their community. So far, their questions have largely gone unanswered.| Inside Climate News
Pennsylvania’s steel industry has the potential to lead a national transition to reduce or even eliminate carbon emissions if it switched to making so-called green steel, according to a report issued Monday by the Ohio River Valley Institute, a nonprofit research group. Southwest Pennsylvania, where the industry is concentrated, has the water and wind resources, […]| Inside Climate News
A searing heat wave has pushed temperatures to record highs in recent days in several cities in South and West Texas, prompting health advisories and pleas for energy conservation. Readings in Laredo, Del Rio, San Angelo and Junction were the highest ever recorded, according to the National Weather Service. Corpus Christi logged an unprecedented 125 […]| Inside Climate News