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SAVANNAH, Ga.—What happens when a solar panel dies? The vexing question hung last week over the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) sustainability conference, the first of its kind for the nonprofit representing America’s solar industry. According to the International Energy Agency, up to 78 million tons of solar panels are expected to retire around the […]| Inside Climate News
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Imagine driving past a solar farm and underneath the panels, you see a field of yellow flowers dancing in the wind. Soil scientist Christina Hebb asked a room of solar developers to picture this scene at a conference here last week of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the nonprofit that advocates for the […]| Inside Climate News
Skyrocketing electricity bills are the political punching bag of the moment, with elected officials pointing fingers at everything from utility profits to data centers to clean energy policies, and voters across the country left confused about who to blame for rates that jumped by more than double the rate of inflation in the past year. […]| Inside Climate News
SCOTTSVILLE, Va.—In rural Fluvanna County about an hour west of the state capital, a proposed natural gas power plant offers a window into a multi-state effort to speed more electricity sources onto the grid. All but a handful of the projects in the initiative by PJM Interconnection, which runs the regional grid, would belch carbon […]| Inside Climate News
After Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives invoked the Congressional Review Act against Bureau of Land Management land-use plans last month, experts warned that similar future actions could potentially impact management plans in other states that fall under different federal agencies. In September, the House passed resolutions under the Congressional Review Act (CRA)—a little-known […]| Inside Climate News
Pictures of Earth from outer space often show the planet as a gaudy quilt. Shimmering aquamarine water covers more than 70 percent of its surface and those hues often seem to signify life against the vast darkness of the universe. But new research analyzing satellite images of the planet over a span of more than […]| Inside Climate News
With the Nov. 11 deadline to finish the Colorado River negotiations fast approaching, Wyomingites got their first look at a draft of the state’s Green River pilot water conservation program during a meeting held Wednesday. Brandon Gebhart, the state engineer responsible for managing and regulating the water within Wyoming, and the state’s representative in the […]| Inside Climate News
An international coalition of more than 1,400 governmental and civil conservation organizations has called on its members to increase efforts to curb fossil fuel extraction and work toward a global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. The International Union for Conservation of Nature adopted Motion 42 on Thursday, explicitly calling fossil fuel production a threat to nature, […]| Inside Climate News
When José Gualinga took the stage in a packed New York University law school auditorium in September, he admitted to feeling emotional. His audience had just watched the premiere of the documentary “Allpa Ukundi, Ñukanchi Pura” (Underground, Around and Among Us). The film showcases the Indigenous Kichwa People of Sarayaku and their pioneering efforts to […]| Inside Climate News
The judge in Lighthiser v. Trump described climate change as a “children’s health emergency,” but found that the young plaintiffs lacked standing and the court did not have the authority to grant the relief they requested.| Inside Climate News
On its surface, floating solar appears to conserve water while generating carbon-free electricity. River managers are cautious, but some say the West can’t afford to wait.| Inside Climate News
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The state with the most data centers is struggling to enact laws to protect electric customers and limit the energy and environmental impacts of their explosive growth.| Inside Climate News
A year after a devastating flood, a small town in Vermont is working to rebuild.| Inside Climate News
The utility’s environmental justice analysis lacks community health data, according to attorneys representing affected residents.| Inside Climate News
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
Wildfires can burn so hot that they give rise to water-repellent soil, which could make ecosystems more susceptible to flooding.| 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
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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 move, following weeks of backlash and protest, affects around 1,000 employees.| 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
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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
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
Two cities and the Texas A&M University System are suing to stop a project that would pump up to 89 million gallons per day of groundwater 80 miles away to other boomtowns in Central Texas.| 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
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New data shows the planet’s fever stayed above a crucial target for a full year, but it would need to do that for decades to breach the Paris Agreement limit.| Inside Climate News
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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
GARY, Ind.—It has been a bittersweet homecoming for Maya Etienne. Her affection for her birthplace runs deep—despite the decline of the city’s once-robust steel-manufacturing industry. The chance to be close to family and friends again has been especially sweet—her two children, 14 and 12, became part of the town’s close-knit community since Etienne moved back […]| Inside Climate News
GARY, Ind.—For Lori Latham and four other self-described “badass women,” the future of their hometown rests on a battle over 75 acres that lie between a giant steel mill and a failed casino once owned by Donald Trump. The site sits behind parked railroad cars painted in graffiti, where abandoned concrete silos rise from the […]| Inside Climate News
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At a meeting in Exxon Corporation’s headquarters, a senior company scientist named James F. Black addressed an audience of powerful oilmen. Speaking without a text as he flipped through detailed slides, Black delivered a sobering message: carbon dioxide from the world’s use of fossil fuels would warm the planet and could eventually endanger humanity. “In […]| 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
From the Texon Scar to the Sabine River, produced water spills have impacted soil, contaminated water resources and killed wildlife. But the Railroad Commission of Texas has resisted new regulations.| Inside Climate News
