Semafor • Sep 8, 2025
Ethiopia to inaugurate Africa's largest dam, despite opposition
The dam on the Nile River — under construction for 14 years — will provide electricity to almost half of the country’s 120 million people.
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Jacobin • Sep 6, 2025
Plastic Recycling Is Mostly Fictional. Trump’s EPA Approves.
The Trump administration recently removed a major roadblock for chemical recycling, an unproven set of technologies that the oil and plastic industries are pitching as a panacea to the world’s plastic pollution crisis. Now, amid an unprecedented lobbying push and with corporate allies ensconced in key regulatory agencies, the industries are clamoring for a nationwide […]
Semafor • Sep 5, 2025
Zambia mine-spill victims seek $420M compensation from Chinese firm
Up to 1.5 million tons of waste leaked out into rivers in February at a copper processing plant run by Sino Metals Leach Zambia.
Semafor • Sep 5, 2025
Wind giant Ørsted sues White House
The project would have powered 350,000 homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Lever News • Sep 4, 2025
Trump Clears Path For Plastic Industry’s Fake Recycling Fix
The EPA just paved the way for a nationwide buildout of chemical recycling facilities that boost fossil fuels, spew emissions, and don’t appear to work.
Semafor • Sep 4, 2025
More companies put their own price on carbon emissions
Some 1,753 companies globally report using an internal carbon price, according to a report published today.
Semafor • Sep 4, 2025
Court backs EPA’s termination of billions in clean energy grants
The US federal appeals court sided with the Trump administration in its move to cancel $20 billion in climate grants awarded under President Joe Biden.
Jacobin • Sep 3, 2025
Trump Is Delaying a Lifesaving Safety Rule for Coal Miners
It has not been a very good year for the American coal industry, as both exports and price per ton continue to trend downward, but it’s been even worse for the coal miners themselves. Last week, the Trump administration approved yet another delay in the implementation of a Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) rule […]
Semafor • Sep 2, 2025
Europe debates restoring wetlands for defense
Countries bordering Russia are discussing ambitious wetland restoration projects with a double purpose: To trap CO₂, while also bogging down tanks.
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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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