A conversation with Ella Nilsen — formerly of CNN, now with Echo Communications — about where we stand in the fight over the energy transition.

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A city filled with green grass is trying to use far less water. Here’s what we can learn from the Denver area’s effort to rethink the American yard.

As President Trump tries to strangle wind projects in the US, nine European countries have signed a deal to build a vast offshore wind farm in the North Sea, the epicenter of the continent’s oil and g...

State regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to fin...

The planet’s third biggest polluter is adding wind and solar and electrifying transport at a faster pace than China did at the same levels of development, new research finds. Its clean energy boom wil...

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Megan Greenwell's 2019 article about G/O Media and Jim Spanfeller's mismanagement of Deadspin

In recent months, the Trump administration has framed high energy costs as a problem impacting only blue states. But the truth is electricity prices are rising nationwide and experts say some Trump po...

The Trump administration is pulling the United States out of the bedrock treaty that underpins international cooperation on climate change, along with dozens of other global bodies.

Energy experts say the US and China are diverging on the energy transition, with China sprinting far ahead on renewables and EVs, while the US doubles down on drilling oil at home and abroad.

CNN dissects one customer’s October utilities bill to show where and how costs can rise.

Zillow, the nation’s largest real estate listing website, has removed extreme weather risk data meant to help buyers figure out if the biggest purchase of their life is particularly susceptible to flo...

Data centers power the internet and AI. They’re also running up electricity bills.

Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.

Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.

Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.

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It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

Wright said the Trump administration is updating the National Climate Assessments that have been previously published, which the administration recently removed from government websites.

If successful, the repeal could strip away the federal government’s most powerful way to control the country’s planet-warming pollution and fight climate change.

Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.

The Trump admin just hired 3 outspoken climate contrarians. Scientists are worried what comes next

The Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii has measured atmospheric carbon dioxide, which — along with other planet-warming pollution — has led directly to climate change, driving sea level rise, superchargin...

Republicans’ tax bill would increase Americans’ energy and transportation costs in every state in the continental US.

Republicans’ tax bill would increase Americans’ energy and transportation costs in every state in the continental US.

Republicans’ tax bill would increase Americans’ energy and transportation costs in every state in the continental US.

Republicans’ tax bill would increase Americans’ energy and transportation costs in every state in the continental US.

The Environmental Protection Agency has told staff overseeing the country’s industrialized Midwest– a region plagued by a legacy of pollution– to stop enforcing violations against the fossil fuel comp...

The Environmental Protection Agency has told staff overseeing the country’s industrialized Midwest– a region plagued by a legacy of pollution– to stop enforcing violations against the fossil fuel comp...

Melting snow from California's Sierra Nevada is filling reservoirs. But dry conditions have shrunk the flow of the Colorado River, straining a vital supply for Southern California.