Slightly weird edition with some thoughts on the AI moment

Americans will pay more at the pump as the president eases up expectations on automakers. It’s one of several ways the White House is raising the cost of…

Protesters are raising concerns about the coffee giant's single-use polypropylene plastic cups, which are labeled as recyclable but are reporting these products frequently end up in waste streams.

Public health professionals, business leaders, and environmental groups applaud effort to reduce air, climate and noise pollution, support NY small businesses

A hard calculation at a hard moment

The U.S. transmission grid isn’t growing fast enough to meet surging electricity demand. Fast-tracking transmission upgrades could change that.

Both are human-caused, both are frightening, and one of them has raced to the forefront of the global conversation.

The National Science Foundation Energy Storage Engine in Upstate New York has named Photon Marine as the recipient a $1 million grant.

A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.

The state stepped in with a market-based contract in hopes of jump-starting the big battery construction that has so far proved elusive.

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And Other Tales of Billionaire Lying from the Data Center Wars

As energy and electricity costs skyrocket, Americans are paying Trump’s debt to the fossil fuel industry Bombshell investigation released as part of Leader Schumer’s Anti-Corruption Workin...

Alexandra Fasulo's attacks on New York solar have reached Washington and the governor's race. The state has struggled to counter her claims, even when they don't hold up.

Millions of people face deadly climate-related disasters as international aid programs are slashed. Floods in Nepal on Aug. 26 killed over 1,400 people and left thousands missing.

Agricultural communities don’t always welcome clean energy developments. But projects can provide significant economic opportunities.

At least in certain ways

A federal judge ruled that the new law, which would force fossil fuel companies to pay $75 billion to help cover the costs of climate change, was unconstitutional.

California Rep. Jared Huffman has accused Trump of “selling out America’s public lands to the richest corporations.”…

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

There is hope in solar power. As the UN meets, we are urging leaders to pursue a clear goal: clean energy for all by 2030

World leaders are in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly, which coincides with Climate Week. It comes after months of climate-fueled extreme weather around the world, including ...

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The Rhode Island senator, who could lead the Judiciary Committee if Democrats win in November, urges stronger messaging and a focus on Supreme Court reform.

Showing up at local government hearings to support a proposed wind, solar, or battery project could be the most effective climate action you ever take.

Back for its third year, The Independent is proud to publish its list of the world’s leading environmentalists – marking the campaigners, change makers and innovators who are making a positive and sig...

How farmers are using something peculiar to maintain their growing vegetation --sheep and possibly livestock.

Half of all operating thermal batteries came online since 2025. Policy, not technology, is now the main constraint.

The vote gives House Republicans a bipartisan win on an issue that has become increasingly politically fraught ahead of the midterm elections.

As researchers around the world begin work on the next U.N. climate assessment, fears are growing that the Trump administration could meddle with critical U.S. climate data. In response, scientists are preparing to transfer vast troves of that data to repositories in Germany.

Is There Suddenly an Opening for AI and Climate Sense?

On AI and climate, it’s the same story of mass destruction

At the start of 2026, only Utah had legalized plug-in solar. Eight other states have followed suit in an effort to help people lower their sky-high energy…

The court negated a key New Jersey regulator's approval of the massive project.