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The Trump administration has made several efforts to support the coal industry, but even if coal were free, the economics aren’t in its favor.

It's the latest sign of a pullback on decarbonization across most big oil companies.

While the LNG market has been tight for the past few years, many new export terminals will come online soon, pushing the market to oversupply by 2028.

Air conditioning is the most under-appreciated intervention, the McKinsey report says.

The number of wild Asiatic lions has risen 40% in five years, as decades-long conservation efforts finally bear fruit.

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Early last year, the hydropower company Nature and People First set its sights on Black Mesa, a mountainous region on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona. The mesa’s steep drop offered ideal terrain for gravity-based energy storage, and the […]

The independent watchdog for the country’s largest power grid operator has issued a “regulatory grenade” asking the federal government to intervene amid PJM Interconnection’s plans to power data centers it knows it doesn’t have the capacity for — despite acknowledging the heightened risk of blackouts. This comes as PJM has seen windfall profits from shouldering […]

By Dan Ross for Truthout At the very Southeastern tip of New Mexico bordering Texas and Mexico, a new artificial intelligence (AI) data center is gearing up to be a greenhouse gas and air pollution behemoth, an additional water user in a drought-afflicted region, and a sower of community discontent. Project Jupiter is one of five […]

Data center construction should be put on hold until grid operators can ensure reliability, a regional energy monitor argues.