An aggregation of recent climate news feeds:
2025-12-19 Fossil fuel companies like Exxon see powering data centers as an important new revenue source and are making promises they can't keep. The post Supported By Big Oil, Data Center Boom Faces Growing Local Opposition appeared first on CleanTechnica. …›
2025-12-19 Wilson’s Gulf Coast environmental group filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue Dow for chronic discharge of plastics from its enormous Seadrift chemical complex.By Dylan BaddourDiane Wilson, the prominent Gulf Coast environmentalist, filed a legal no …›
2025-12-19 A delayed environmental review cleared the Dakota Access Pipeline to continue operating. Separately, a North Dakota judge expressed unusual exasperation over the tangled legal battles. …›
2025-12-19 Rivian seems to be on a roll. As part of a new workforce development push (anticipating the need for more employees, no doubt), the all-electric automaker is scoring big points in a bipartisan way. It is now training veterans in technical trades in For …›
2025-12-19 Floor mats are a funny thing. If they are too fluffy like the shag carpet in a 1970s split level house, they look swell but are impossible to keep clean. If they are tough and durable, they are easy to keep clean, but they make the inside of your car …›
2025-12-19 Climate change, overfishing, and aid cuts are all impacting Ghana’s fishing sector, writes Nick Ferris. A new bill designed to safeguard against these threats is accused of ignoring the work of women in the sector, who make up 60 per cent of the work …›
2025-12-19 Games such as Dragon Quest used to mobilize workers to back corporate goals including relaxing environmental rulesToyota, the world’s biggest carmaker, is using retro-style video games to rally its US workforce behind its corporate goals, including l …›
2025-12-19 The most recent US labor force analysis shows a four-year low — the unemployment rate is at 4.6%. Not since the end of the Covid-era pandemic has the job rate been so abysmal. But there’s a bright point in the employment equation: energy ef …›
2025-12-19 New study finds consumption patterns and trade matter as much as where fish are caught …›
2025-12-19 New research reveals when glaciers around the world will vanish and why every fraction of a degree of warming could decide their fate. …›
2025-12-19 Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and destructive than previously thought, according to new research. Unlike crater-forming impacts, these events unleash extreme he …›
2025-12-19 Trump voters all over the country are running to the media with their tales of woeful buyers’ remorse. Well, sure, if it makes them feel better, let them whine. Meanwhile, the real action is taking place in court, where state attorneys general ar …›
2025-12-19 OPPD breaks long-standing promise to stop burning deadly coal in North Omaha OMAHA, Neb. — Today, the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) board voted to extend the life of a dangerous coal-fired power plant that has been harming the health of North …›
2025-12-19 Washington, DC — Today, the House of Representatives passed the “Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development Act,” or the SPEED Act. Rather than fixing the real barriers slowing clean energy projects, the SPEED Act weakens the N …›
2025-12-19 CPI Data Released Today Shows Trump’s Trade, Energy Policy is on the “Wrong Course” WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released consumer price index data for September to November, showing a 2.7% increase in inflation for …›
2025-12-19 The EU’s early industrial advantage could disappear while international markets mature, warn European cleantech producers. According to the recently published Sustainable Transport Investment Plan (STIP), decarbonising the shipping industry is es …›
2025-12-19 There were many cringe-worthy moments during the recent COP30 conference in Brazil, beginning with the new highway bulldozed through the Amazon rainforest to provide access to the meeting site for thousands of delegates and lobbyists. Really? How tone- …›
2025-12-19 Solar and wind power have been supported by Republican and Democratic voters for many years. Even government support of solar and wind have been endorsed by the large majority of voters. Nonetheless, the Republican Party has decided to not only cut sup …›
2025-12-19 Over the past few years, Silicon Valley's AI blitz has created skyrocketing demand for high-end computation in vast dedicated data centers …›
2025-12-19 Someone responded to a just-published article about yet another hydrogen fleet failure by pointing to hydrogen fuel cell forklifts in US distribution centers. The implication was clear. If hydrogen works in forklifts, then the broader critique of hydro …›
2025-12-18 While discussing the big Ford EV news of the week with Larry and Steve yesterday, something came to the forefront of my mind regarding Rivian. Rivian has done a great job developing excellent, compelling, high-quality electric vehicles. However, it has …›
2025-12-18 Factorial, the start-up, said the listing would provide money that would help it bring new solid-state batteries to market as soon as 2027. …›
2025-12-18 Deforestation is accelerating, biodiversity loss is at record levels, and conservation funding still falls short by more than $700 billion a year. On this episode of CleanTech Talk, Dr. Drea Burbank, CEO of Savimbo, and Doug Heske, CEO of Newday Financ …›
2025-12-18 The question comes up regularly when hydrogen transportation projects fail in ways that are no longer surprising, most recently in a comment on my article that lead with the UK’s HyRoad’s dissolution. Battery electric buses work well in cit …›
2025-12-18 Much of the western U.S. is overdue for wildfire, with decades of suppression allowing fuel to build up across millions of hectares. Researchers estimate that 74% of the region is in a fire deficit, meaning far more land needs to burn to restore health …›
2025-12-18 Steve Hanley, Larry Evans, and I spent an hour yesterday talking about the big Ford EV news of the week, broader implications and context around that, and where we go from here. As I was listening back to it, something else clicked. One of our big take …›
2025-12-18 Scientists say government must prepare for unlikely but ‘plausible’ 4C rise in temperature and a 2-metre rise in sea levelsThe worst-case impacts of the climate crisis for the UK have been laid bare by scientists, ranging from a scorching 4C rise i …›
2025-12-18 Researchers calculated whether solar contributes to an increase in costs for non-adopting consumers, and, if so, by how much.By Dan GearinoOne of the most divisive topics among environmental advocates and researchers is the claim that the growth of roo …›
2025-12-18 How many times have you heard people complain that the Tesla touchscreen takes on too many tasks, that it would be better to have buttons and knobs for some things that you want to easily control while driving? Some Tesla owners are happy about the tou …›
2025-12-18 A holiday gift from Covering Climate Now: some reasons to be grateful as we round out this year and head into the next. We read the headlines like everyone else, and we know that this year has been rough for climate progress – in the US, around the w …›
2025-12-18 Warming and freshening of Arctic waters can weaken ocean circulation systems that influence weather patterns across Europe and North America …›
2025-12-18 Now is a heckuva good time to bring a new EV to market anywhere in the world — except for here in the US, where the vehicle electrification wheels are spinning in reverse. Still, hope springs eternal. With that in mind, let’s preview the UK …›
2025-12-18 In our latest CleanTechnica YouTube show, Steve Hanley, Larry Evans, and I discuss Ford’s dramatic announcement regarding writing off $19.5 billion in EV investments, dropping certain EV plans, failing to make money on the Ford F-150 Lightning an …›
2025-12-18 Meg O’Neill of Australia’s Woodside Energy will lead the British energy giant, replacing Murray Auchincloss, who will exit after less than two years in the role. …›
2025-12-18 While Beijing’s clean-air campaign was driven by a one-party governance system that enforced sweeping measures, India’s democratic political structure is far more fragmented. But even then, experts tell Stuti Mishra, there are lessons India can dra …›
2025-12-18 Spells of unseasonably mild weather are prompting species such as the skylark to burst into song December is not noted for birdsong in the UK, as most species are more concerned with finding food during the short hours of daylight than preparing for th …›
2025-12-18 Whitehouse, DelBene’s bill puts fee on products that exceed U.S. average carbon intensity WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Representative Suzan DelBene (D-WA) introduced the Clean Competition Act of 2025. The bill woul …›
2025-12-18 Waymo reached a huge milestone today. It passed 20 million passenger trips. On antisocial media site X (where Waymo likes to make this kind of announcement), the company wrote: “20 million. That’s how many times you’ve trusted Waymo to get yo …›
2025-12-18 A lack of regulatory certainty is preventing most projects from moving beyond just the planning stage. Spain, Denmark, Norway and France are leading when it comes to producing green e-fuels that can be used for shipping, a new T&E analysis shows. …›