Lever News • Jan 9, 2026
Big Oil’s Furtive Venezuela Pipe Dreams
Antonia Juhasz, an expert on warmongering over oil, weighs in on the fossil fuel industry’s ulterior motives behind the U.S. invasion of Venezuela.
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truthout • Jan 8, 2026
A Year After LA Fires, Don’t Forget How Trump and Musk’s Lies Hurt Recovery
Powerful figures were “pouring rhetorical fuel on the flames of the very real fire," says journalist Jacob Soboroff.
truthout • Jan 8, 2026
Trump Withdraws US From Dozens of International Treaties and Organizations
The US is the first country to abandon the landmark UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Scheer Post • Jan 8, 2026
We’re Too Close to the Debris
by Heather Vogell and Agnel Philip, graphics by Lucas Waldron for ProPublica When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the Gulf Coast to develop his company’s ambitious Starship, he put the 400-foot rocket on a collision course with the commercial airline industry. Each time SpaceX did a test run of Starship and its booster, dubbed […]
Semafor • Jan 8, 2026
Trump media company announces plans for first fusion power plant
The US president’s social media company said that construction of the country’s first fusion power plant will begin in 2026.
Semafor • Jan 8, 2026
Global climate tech investment grows in 2025
Total investment hit $40.5 billion, according to a new analysis from Sightline Climate.
Scheer Post • Jan 8, 2026
Trump Abandonment of Global Treaties, Including Landmark Climate Deal, ‘Threatens All Life on Earth’
“Trump cutting ties with the world’s oldest climate treaty is another despicable effort to let corporate fossil fuel interests run our government."
Semafor • Jan 8, 2026
US withdraws from key UN climate treaty and 65 other groups
The White House said the groups were “wasteful, ineffective, or harmful.”
Mother Jones • Jan 7, 2026
Experts: Trump Plan to Exploit Venezuela’s Oil Would Be “Terrible for the Climate”
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump, by dramatically seizing Nicolás Maduro and claiming dominion over Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, has taken his “drill, baby, drill” mantra global. Achieving the president’s dream of supercharging the country’s oil production would be financially challenging—and if fulfilled, would be “terrible for the […]
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Michigan Lawsuit Calls Big Oil a “Cartel” That’s Driving High Energy Bills
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Reclaiming water from contaminated brine can increase water supply and reduce environmental harm
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Kristi Noem’s Throttling of FEMA Funds Constitutes a Preventable Disaster
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Snowstorms Are Hell for Wheelchair Users—But They Don’t Have to Be
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Climate change threatens the Winter Olympics’ future – and even snowmaking has limits for saving the Games
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Data centers told to pitch in as storms and cold weather boost power demand
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Trump’s climate policy rollback plan relies on EPA rescinding its 2009 endangerment finding – but will courts allow it?
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In a Warming World, Winter Olympics Organizers Will Have to Adapt
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Oregon Bill Would Tax Tourists to Protect Animals and Their Habitats
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