Sweeping changes underway at the federal agency tasked with protecting the nation’s forests could result in the loss of more than a century of critical historical documents, conservationists warn.
Soon after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a plan to revoke its legal authority to regulate climate pollutants last summer, the nation’s most respected scientific organization fast-tracked a review of the latest evidence on whether greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare.
Hyundai invited CleanTechnica into its brand new automotive factory where it is building the IONIQ 5 and IONIQ 9 for US customers. It’s located a few minutes outside of Savannah in Ellabell, Georgia. Disclaimer: Hyundai paid for the author’s travel and accommodations to attend this event in Savannah, Georgia. The ... [continued]
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Ferries are public infrastructure that happen to float. They are marine buses, freight bridges, medical access routes, school links, tourism arteries, repair crew shuttles, food supply chains, and island lifelines. When they fail, communities notice at once. When fuel costs rise, farepayers and taxpayers notice soon after. That is why ... [continued]
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Hyundai opened up to us this week about its partnership with Waymo to produce a robotaxi based on the IONIQ 5 with Waymo that could see Waymo purchasing 50,000 of the EVs over the next few years. Initially, they stated that they would be building the first robotaxi to be ... [continued]
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One of the best climate and environmental communicators of the last few decades, Bill McKibben, will be speaking at our Electric Home Show in Hawaii this weekend. To be honest, I wasn’t keen on promoting this much in advance, because the event is focused on helping people who live in ... [continued]
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To have one defamation case about public allegations of your drinking as FBI Director would be unfortunate. To have a second dismissed the very next day would be, well, perhaps a sign that something has gone wrong. Earlier this week we wrote about Kash Patel’s ridiculously weak defamation case against The Atlantic over its big, deeply sourced article with multiple sources claiming that there have been problems associated with Patel’s drinking.
His complaint was filed on Monday. In it, his lawyers mention that they already have an existing defamation lawsuit against MSNBC’s Frank Figliuzzi (a former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence). This is part of Patel’s argument for why the Atlantic should have known the reporting was false. From the Monday complaint:
The FBI further warned Defendants that these allegations echoed a similar fabrication previously aired by MSNBC’s Frank Figliuzzi on Morning Joe—anonymously sourced reporting that was later retracted by MSNBC and that is the subject of pending defamation litigation—yet Defendants published it anyway.
That was Monday. On Tuesday, that defamation lawsuit was dismissed. Judge George C. Hanks Jr. made quick work of it, noting that Figliuzzi’s statement was clearly rhetorical hyperbole — a form of opinion that cannot be defamatory.
The case was entirely about this exchange on MSNBC:
Host: “So, Frank, let’s turn to FBI Director Kash Patel, who has sort of taken a surprisingly backseat role—at least to this point, in the first 102 or 103 days, wherever we are right now. What do you make of that, that he’s just been a little less visible than I think a lot of people and Trump observers expected him to be?”
Figliuzzi: “Yeah, well, reportedly, he’s been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building. And there are reports that daily briefings to him have been changed from every day to maybe twice weekly. So this is both a blessing and a curse, because if he’s really trying to run things without any experience level, things could be bad. If he’s not plugged in, things could be bad, but he’s allowing agents to run things. So we don’t know where this is going.”
The court is not at all impressed by this lawsuit.
The Court finds that Figliuzzi’s statement, when taken in context, cannot have been perceived by a person of ordinary intelligence as stating actual facts about Patel. As alleged, Figliuzzi’s statement about Patel—again, made in response to a question about Patel’s decreased visibility as Director of the FBI—was that “he’s been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building.”…. A person of reasonable intelligence and learning would not have taken his statement literally: that Dir. Patel has actually spent more hours physically in a nightclub than he has spent physically in his office building. By saying that Patel spent “far more” time at nightclubs than his office, Figliuzzi delivered his answer “in an exaggerated, provocative and amusing way,” employing rhetorical hyperbole. …
The Court finds that Figliuzzi’s statement is rhetorical hyperbole that cannot constitute defamation. Accordingly, Dir. Patel has failed to state a claim against Figliuzzi, and his lawsuit must be dismissed.
If a person of reasonable intelligence and learning would not have taken this statement literally, what does that say about Patel and his lawyers?
Either way, that’s a point for The Atlantic’s legal team, which can now respond to Patel’s claim that the Figliuzzi suit was evidence of falsity with: “nope, not anymore.”
Separately, part of the case involved whether or not Figliuzzi could get attorney’s fees from Patel for filing a vexatious SLAPP suit. There was a dispute over which state’s anti-SLAPP law should apply — Texas, Nevada, or New York each had some claim — and the court (correctly, in my opinion) landed on Texas, since that’s where Figliuzzi resides. Speakers have a reasonable expectation that their home state’s anti-SLAPP law will shield them.
Unfortunately, though, because the Fifth Circuit a while back decided that you can’t use Texas’ anti-SLAPP law in federal court, it’s all for nothing, and he can’t get Patel to pay for his legal fees. This is yet another reminder of why we need a federal anti-SLAPP law — not just to protect free speech more broadly, but to protect SLAPP victims in federal courts in circuits where state anti-SLAPP statutes can’t reach.
The Court finds that Texas has the most significant relationship. Further, applying either Nevada’s or New York’s anti-SLAPP statute to a Texas Defendant would “impede on Texas’s interest in protecting its citizens and fulfilling the statute’s purpose.”…
The Fifth Circuit has found that, because Texas’s anti-SLAPP statute’s “burdenshifting framework imposes additional requirements beyond those found in Rules 12 and 56 and answers the same question as those rules, the state law cannot apply in federal court.” … Thus, while Figliuzzi prevails on the present motion to dismiss, the Court may not award him court costs and attorney’s fees under Texas’s anti-SLAPP law.
Still, even without the fee shifting, this is a good result, and underscores how these exceptionally weak defamation suits are little more than attacks on the press for reporting what multiple sources describe as problematic behavior from the FBI director.
Revised figures increase fears about energy-intensive datacentres worsening climate emergency
The UK government vastly underestimated the climate impact of artificial intelligence, it has emerged, after officials raised their estimate of carbon emissions from AI by a factor of more than 100.
According to new data quietly published this week, energy use by AI datacentres in the UK could cause the emission of up to 123m tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) – about as much as generated by 2.7 million people – over the next 10 years.
Continue reading...Some 266 million people in 47 territories were in a state of food crisis or worse last year, with experts warning that ongoing conflicts, climate variability and global economic uncertainty risk worsening the situation in 2026
When the federal EV incentives were removed because of the efforts of some Republicans, it was predicted that US EV sales would plunge. They did go into slumps for many, but not all, electric vehicles. There was a little boost for EV sales still remaining in the form of state ... [continued]
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In my flat Florida community I all-too-often see people exercising with a podcast playing in their ears. Earbuds allow non-stop entertainment, of course. I get that. It assuages boredom. Then again, listening to others’ thoughts removes us from awareness of the world around us. How do we enhance our ability ... [continued]
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The most powerful single-seater in Formula E history made its public track debut this week at Circuit Paul Ricard, where the series’ incoming GEN4 machine gave onlookers their first unfiltered look at a car that former champion Jake Dennis has already described as an “absolute beast.” The testing sessions in ... [continued]
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Officials hope more casual attire for public servants will save electricity during Iran war as summer heat approaches
Public servants working for the Tokyo metropolitan government are being encouraged to swap their suits for shorts this summer to combat sweltering heat and rising energy costs caused by the US-Israel war on Iran.
Inspired by Japan’s Cool Biz energy-saving initiative, Tokyo officials hope the measure will cut dependence on air conditioning.
Continue reading...Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast has begun reshaping its lineup in India by positioning the fleet-focused Limo Green as a more luxurious product under a new name: MPV7. But VinFast tells CleanTechnica this is not the Limo Green. Not even a rebadge, because the MP7 is a premium vehicle in the ... [continued]
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In an overheated and fractured world that’s lurching from one crisis to the next to feed its oil and gas addiction, collaboration toward an energy transition may seem unrealistic or even radical.
In this week’s newsletter: Experts are predicting a stronger version of the weather pattern this year, which could supercharge extreme events and see temperature rises breach 1.5C
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Scientists and officials are keeping a close eye on conditions brewing in the Pacific Ocean that could spike temperatures and smash global heat records in the year ahead.
It’s still too early to get a definitive picture, but there are signs that a so-called super El Niño could develop this year, supercharging extreme weather events around the world. Some forecasts are suggesting it could become one of the strongest ever recorded.
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Continue reading...Inside the First Data Center–Grid Simulator Built To Test the Promising New Technology As demand for data centers continues to rise, many center operators, utilities, and American communities are asking: Can the U.S. power grid handle these energy elephants? The answer depends on just how many elephants the country adopts. ... [continued]
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Companies Need Critical Minerals for Electronics, Medical Equipment, Crops, and More. These 3 Techniques (and Others) Could Make Some Easier To Get. “The Fast Lane” series zooms in on some of the thousands of technologies born in national laboratories that companies can license today. This iteration focuses on tools and ... [continued]
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In First Rooftop Demo, Startup, Investors, and Researchers Test Roof Coating’s Potential To Cool, Protect, and Lower Energy Bills for a New Jersey Warehouse What do a Texas data center, a New Jersey warehouse, and a police academy in Arizona have in common? They all have roofs. OK, not surprising. ... [continued]
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Third-generation LEAF is recognized for the best combination of quality, efficiency and value in its segment. NASHVILLE, Tennessee — The all-new 2026 Nissan LEAF has been named as the Best Subcompact Electric SUV for 2026 in U.S. News 2026 Best Hybrid and Electric Car Awards. The U.S. News Best Hybrid and Electric ... [continued]
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Joint Statement Highlights How These Secretive Tribunals Prop Up Intl. Fossil Fuel Industry. Washington, DC — Sierra Club has joined over 340 civil society organizations in signing an open statement calling on governments around the world to disengage from investor-state dispute settlements, or ISDS, a system that “threatens a just transition from ... [continued]
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Denza Philippines began the official rollout of its B5 and B8 plug-in hybrid SUVs today (April 23, Philippine time) following the brand’s local debut at the Manila International Auto Show 2026. The move marks a formal entry into the premium new energy vehicle segment with a focus on off-road capable ... [continued]
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Advanced biofuels are not the affordable alternative to oil that the fuels industry claims. Biofuels are being touted as an affordable alternative to oil during the energy crisis, but new research finds that pure HVO, the most widely promoted ‘drop in’ replacement for fossil fuels, is 79% more expensive, on average, than ... [continued]
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Mercedes has introduced two new electric car models, an undated EQS and an all new C Class Electric. Both are impressive.
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The US solar developer Silicon Ranch is exploring a new solar grazing model optimized for cattle ranching, carbon sequestration, water conservation, and land restoration all in the same space.
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Uber has invested in HysetCo, the Paris-region company that leases hydrogen taxis and operates much of the refueling network that supports them, with the stated goal of adding nearly 2,000 hydrogen taxis to Uber’s platform over five years. The official story is cleaner zero-emission business travel in Paris, but given ... [continued]
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The Trump administration and congressional Republicans have spent the last year trying to defang the Endangered Species Act, the country’s bedrock conservation law. But one of the most aggressive and far-reaching attempts just faced a major setback—and concerns from within the party were at least part of the reason.
Back in 2011 and 2012, one of the central technical objections that helped kill SOPA and PIPA was about DNS blocking. Engineers, internet architects, and cybersecurity experts all lined up to explain, in painstaking detail, why blocking at the DNS layer was a terrible idea. It would break the fundamental architecture of how the internet works. It would have massive collateral damage. It would undermine security protocols designed to protect users from exactly the kind of DNS manipulation that the bill proposed. And it wouldn’t even stop piracy, because anyone who actually wanted to get around DNS blocking could do so easily.
Congress, to its rare credit, actually listened to the technical experts (and widespread protests) and shelved the legislation. But the entertainment industry never gave up on the idea. They just went jurisdiction-shopping. And France, which has never met a maximalist copyright enforcement scheme it didn’t love, has been more than happy to oblige.
As recently reported by TorrentFreak, a Paris Court of Appeal validated DNS blocking orders requiring Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to block access to pirate sites through their own DNS resolvers. This goes beyond traditional ISP resolvers, which France has been ordering blocked for years — this targets third-party resolvers — the ones that millions of people specifically choose to use because they offer better privacy, better security, and better reliability than their ISP’s default DNS.
But, of course, in France (and to the usual crew of Hollywood lobbyists), “better privacy, security, and reliability” can only mean one thing: used for piracy.
The court rejected all five appeals, and in doing so, articulated a legal principle so sweeping that it has no natural stopping point.
In this case, French pay-TV provider Canal+ went to court under Article L. 333-10 of the “French Sport Code,” which lets rightsholders request “all proportionate measures” against “any online entity in a position to help” block access to pirate sites. Canal+ argued that because users were simply switching to third-party DNS resolvers to circumvent ISP-level blocking, those resolvers should be conscripted into the blocking regime too.
Cloudflare and Cisco pushed back, arguing that their DNS resolvers serve a “neutral and passive function” — they translate domain names into IP addresses and that’s it. They compared their role to a phone book. The court’s response boiled down to: we don’t care.
The DNS resolution service allows its users, via the translation of a domain name into an IP address, to access websites on which sports competitions are broadcast in violation of rights-holders’ rights, and in particular to circumvent the blocking of those sites by ISPs.
The court found that the “neutral and passive” nature of DNS resolvers is “simply irrelevant to Article L. 333-10.” The law isn’t about liability at all — it only cares whether a service can help block access to pirate sites, which DNS resolvers clearly can. If you are technically capable of blocking access, you must.
Google, meanwhile, tried a different argument: that DNS blocking through third-party resolvers isn’t effective because users can just switch to a VPN or yet another resolver. The court wasn’t moved by that either:
Any filtering measure can be circumvented, and this possibility does not render the measures in question ineffective.
As long as DNS blocking stops some subset of users from reaching pirate sites, the court ruled, it’s “proportionate.” Under that line of thinking, any measure that inconveniences even a fraction of would-be pirates is legally justified, no matter how much collateral damage it causes for everyone else.
And if you think that principle has any limit, Canal+ has made it quite clear that they don’t think it does:
Canal+ said in a statement that the rulings are “more than a victory,” forming part of “a global approach that will be reinforced by the progressive deployment of complementary measures, including IP blocking.”
Canal+ has already been getting courts to order VPN providers to block as well. So now we have ISP DNS blocking mandated, third-party DNS resolver blocking mandated, VPN blocking mandated — and, per the TorrentFreak article, direct automated IP address blocking is coming too. They will not stop until the entire internet is broken.
Each step reaches further down the internet stack, breaks more of the internet for more people, and stops fewer actual pirates, because the people who are determined to pirate content are always one technical maneuver ahead. The people who get caught in the collateral damage are ordinary users who happen to use Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 or Google’s 8.8.8.8 for perfectly legitimate reasons like speed, reliability, and privacy.
Cisco, rather than comply with the original order, simply pulled its OpenDNS service out of France entirely. That’s the kind of collateral damage we’re talking about. French users who relied on OpenDNS for entirely lawful purposes completely lost access to the service. Because a copyright holder decided that the DNS layer was the right place to play whack-a-mole with pirate sites.
When Cisco argued on appeal that implementing geo-targeted DNS blocking would require 64 person-weeks of engineering work, the court waved it off, saying the estimate was “not supported by any objective evidence” and pointing out that Cisco already offers DNS filtering to enterprise customers. The fact that enterprise DNS filtering for corporate networks is a fundamentally different thing than mass geo-targeted blocking of domains at the resolver level for an entire country’s users apparently did not register as a meaningful distinction.
The court’s core reasoning — that any entity technically capable of blocking must do so, that circumvention doesn’t make blocking disproportionate, and that the “neutral and passive” function of an intermediary is irrelevant — creates a legal framework that can reach basically anything. If a DNS resolver can be conscripted because it’s “in a position to help,” what about browsers? What about operating systems? What about CDNs, or cloud hosting providers, or certificate authorities? The logic has no brake pedal. Every layer of the internet stack is, in some sense, “in a position to help” block access to content. The question the court’s reasoning cannot answer is: where does it end?
Under this reasoning, what’s to stop a rightsholder from arguing that browsers should block pirate URLs directly? Or that operating systems should refuse to resolve them at all?
That seems bad!
Of course, this kind of maximalist copyright enforcement is something of a French specialty. This is the same country that brought us HADOPI, the graduated response agency that cost French taxpayers €82 million over a decade while imposing a grand total of roughly €87,000 in fines. A staggering return on investment — if the goal was to light money on fire while accomplishing nothing. France has also been at the forefront of copyright exceptionalism that risks undermining the EU legal system more broadly, pushing interpretations of copyright law so aggressive that they threaten to distort the legal frameworks of neighboring countries.
France keeps doing the same thing over and over again: spend enormous sums, conscript more and more intermediaries, break more and more of the internet’s infrastructure, accomplish almost nothing in terms of actually reducing piracy, and then conclude that what’s really needed is… more of the same, but harder. The entertainment industry’s refusal to learn from twenty years of evidence that enforcement-maximalism doesn’t work is genuinely remarkable. Every study and every natural experiment shows the same thing: the most effective anti-piracy tool ever invented is convenient, reasonably priced legal access to content. But that requires adapting your business model, and it’s apparently much more satisfying to get courts to break the internet for you instead.
The ruling’s real danger is the template it sets. Other countries with similar legal frameworks will look at this appeals court validation and think: we can do that too. The “any entity in a position to help” standard, combined with the “doesn’t have to be perfectly effective” standard, combined with the “we don’t care about your neutral role in the architecture” standard, adds up to a legal toolkit for conscripting nearly any internet infrastructure provider into a copyright enforcement apparatus. And the costs get externalized onto those providers (and their users), while the rightsholders collect the benefits.
The engineers who fought SOPA warned about exactly this: DNS blocking breaks things, creates collateral damage, pushes enforcement into layers of the stack never designed for it — and doesn’t actually stop piracy, because the actual pirates just route around it while everyone else suffers. France apparently decided all of those concerns are, to quote the court, “simply irrelevant.” And now they’ve moving on to IP blocking.
At some point, you run out of layers of the internet to break. But apparently we’re going to have to find out where that point is the hard way.
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A new report from Parens states that US fast chargers were installed in the US at a healthy rate of over 3,000 in the first quarter of 2026, saying, “Deployment remains elevated, with ~3,300 new ports added in Q1, in line with seasonal patterns. Utilization held at ~15.6%, only slightly ... [continued]
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This week, people at hundreds of locations in scores of countries celebrated Earth Day, with activities ranging from tree plantings and trash pick-ups to conferences and art exhibits. Not many of those people, however, seem to have attended protests, though that is how Earth Day first came into being. In 1970, huge, nonviolent protests across the US drew an estimated 20 million people, an eruption of mass sentiment that President Richard Nixon felt threatened his re-election chances so acutely that he created the Environmental Protection Agency and signed far-reaching environmental laws.
It’s important for journalists to understand the role of protest, partly because our coverage shapes what society as a whole knows about the controversies in question. Of course we should not become the mouthpieces of protestors, but rigorous reporting does not equate to being a mouthpiece. Our civic role is to ascertain and share the facts as best we can so the public and policymakers can make informed judgments.
Probably no environmental organization in the world is more associated with the tactic of protest than Greenpeace. Nonviolent protest has been part of Greenpeace’s DNA since the group’s founding in 1971, when activists sailed a boat into a prohibited area off the Alaskan coast to obstruct US nuclear bomb testing. Since then, Greenpeace has grown into a global operation, with branches in 55 countries that employ direct action, research, and public advocacy against fossil fuels, species extinction, nuclear power, overfishing, and other environmental scourges.
Now, the US branch of Greenpeace may itself be on the brink of extinction, due to a lawsuit arising from the Standing Rock pipeline protests in 2016 and 2017. Energy Transfer, the company building the Dakota Access oil pipeline, sued Greenpeace, charging that it incited the protests through a misinformation campaign. A jury in the oil and gas–producing state North Dakota found Greenpeace guilty after a trial studded with irregularities: Seven of the 11 jurors had ties to the fossil fuel industry; the judge refused news organizations access to a livestream of the proceedings; and Greenpeace’s core defense — that it played only a supporting role in a protest that actually was led by Indigenous peoples — was dismissed. Martin Garbus, a human rights lawyer who previously defended such global icons as Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel, called it “the most unfair trial” he had ever witnessed.
In March 2025, the jury ordered Greenpeace to pay nearly $667 million in damages. Although later reduced to $345 million, that amount remains exponentially larger than the group’s annual budget and would likely bankrupt it. Greenpeace is appealing. Journalists interested in covering the next phase of the story can find the contending parties’ perspectives here and here.
Timed to Earth Day, the former executive director of Greenpeace USA, Annie Leonard, has co-authored a book making the case for nonviolent protest as an essential tool for bringing about social change. Protest: Respect It, Defend It, Use It is a global compendium of instances when protestors shifted the course of history, often by telling stories that captured media attention. “Protest interrupts business as usual,” Leonard writes, “shines a spotlight on a wrong or a demand, elevates an issue on the public agenda,” and in so doing has helped deliver “rights and progress we value and may even take for granted today: weekends, women’s right to vote, desegregation, same-sex marriage, cleaner air and water….”
Protest is not for the faint-hearted. At least 2,253 defenders of land, forests, or rivers were killed globally between 2012 and 2024, according to the NGO Global Witness. Today, as authoritarian governments and corporations increasingly seek to silence free speech and criminalize activism, our role as journalists remains essential: to inform the public and hold power accountable. Which means treating activists the same way we treat politicians and CEOs: as newsmakers.
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WATCH: The Fossil Fuel Phaseout Conference Is Days Away. World leaders are gathering tomorrow, Friday, April 24, in Santa Marta, Colombia, at The First Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels to begin drafting a global “roadmap” to phase out fossil fuels. The 80-plus countries that favored a roadmap at COP30 collectively amount to the largest economic superpower on Earth. Watch our preview webinar.
Food crisis warning. The Iran War and the resulting disruption of shipments of petroleum-based fertilizers essential to global food production will result in hunger in certain parts of the world — and possibly even famine — in coming months. By Adam Hanieh at the Financial Times…
Structural shift. In 2025, renewable energy surpassed coal as the world’s largest electricity source for the first time. The thinktank Ember projects that renewables will outpace nuclear power in 2026. By Molly Lempriere for Carbon Brief…
Burn rate. Wildfires in the US used to burn slower or even die out at night due to dropping temperatures and higher humidity, but a new report from Science Advances finds that climate change is causing fires to burn longer and stronger. By Seth Borenstein for the Associated Press…
Going green. New England has some of the highest energy costs in the US, but rural towns like Warwick, Mass., are transitioning away from fossil fuels and saving money in the process. By Bianca Garcia for WBUR…
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Discouraging trend. Despite the fact that the need to reduce fossil fuel emissions grows more urgent each year, a new report from the media watchdog group FAIR shows that coverage about climate change in US news outlets “plunged” in 2025.
“The economics of clean energy are now on our side. Today, clean energy is the cheapest and quickest way to meet our growing energy demand. As a result, we’re seeing bright spots of hope all over the world.”
– Manish Bapna, chief executive of the Natural Resources Defense Council, told The New York Times
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The latest IEA energy report for 2025 shows solar and energy storage are rapidly displacing fossil fuels for energy generation.
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A church in Georgia has a new 70.11-kW solar system and a 41-kWh battery storage system which could generate and store enough electricity to save about $15,000 a year on its utility bills. There was no up-front cost to the congregation because of support from Hive Fund, Black Voters Matter, ... [continued]
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Despite the sharp U-turn in federal energy policy, the smart money is steering over to landfills, derelict coal mines, and other industrial sites for conversion into solar power plants.
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Ohio resembles a torture chamber for renewable energy developers, according to new research that examines how regulators in 19 states handle wind and solar project applications.
Climate experts and advocates warn House and Senate bills will protect polluters at the cost of the climate
Republican lawmakers are attempting to shield big oil from having to pay for its contributions to the climate crisis, alarming environmental advocates.
New House and Senate bills, led by Harriet Hageman, a Wyoming representative, and Ted Cruz, a Texas senator, respectively, would give oil and gas companies broad legal immunity from policies and lawsuits aimed at holding the industry accountable for damages caused by its emissions.
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