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Big Tech meets Big Oil: Self-driving trucks roar into the Permian Basin
West Texas has been a longtime cash cow for the oil industry. Now it holds promise for automated trucking companies, too.
EPA docs: 47 climate staffers reassigned
Internal records show how the agency dispersed its climate employees under Administrator Lee Zeldin.
Emails show DHS agreed to restore canceled disaster grant program
But the Trump administration has taken no steps to comply with a judge's order to allocate billions of dollars it withheld from local projects, Democratic attorneys general say.
Elizabeth Warren questions a company’s effort to sell flood insurance
The Senate Democrat raised concerns after company execs visited the White House and projected the demise of government flood insurance.
Wyoming aims to boost Trump’s agenda with ‘energy dominance fund’
Wind and solar projects would be ineligible for the program’s matching grants and loans.
Malaysia, Japan plan carbon capture project, despite climate benefit doubts
Climate activists say carbon capture is an expensive distraction from proven emissions-reducing actions such as transitioning to renewable energy.
Start planning for catastrophic global warming, top advisers tell EU
Europe is heading for extreme levels of warming and the EU must make detailed plans to adapt, an official report warns.
The week the EU’s climate foundations started to shake
An assault on Europe’s most important climate law, the Emissions Trading System, took the fight against green rules to a whole new level.
Kenya launches carbon registry to boost climate finance, credibility
The government says carbon markets could generate investment to support conservation, job creation and sustainable development.
Trump made it easier to build gas guzzlers. Will Detroit bite?
The president's rollback of tailpipe regulations comes as the global marketplace shifts to electric vehicles.
‘The industry comes in and kills the work of local citizens’
States and feds are doing little to affect data center growth. People in a Virginia county are pushing back but running into big obstacles.
Democrats launch probe into endangerment finding repeal
Forty-one senators are accusing EPA of treating the repeal as a “foregone conclusion.”
How FEMA is affected by the shutdown
Thousands of disaster workers remained on the job as Homeland Security funding lapsed Saturday. But states could see FEMA reimbursements stall.
Trump derides Newsom and calls his UK deal ‘inappropriate’
President Donald Trump said the "U.K.’s got enough trouble without getting involved with Gavin Newscum."
New Mexico Senate kills bill to codify climate targets
Several Democrats joined Republicans to vote against the Clear Horizons Act, which was based on the governor's executive order to cut emissions in the fossil-fuel-heavy state.
West Virginia is ready to defend Trump’s climate rollback in court
The state solicitor general cited West Virginia's landmark Supreme Court triumph over an Obama-era climate rule as one reason he expects EPA's endangerment finding repeal to survive legal challenge.
North Carolina judge rejects first-of-its-kind climate lawsuit
The case was the first to ask an electric utility to pay to help communities respond to climate change.
EU leaders split on carbon price in push to bolster industry
The EU Emissions Trading System has come under intense pressure from heavy industry for raising energy costs and contributing to plant closures.
São Paulo battles drought and floods together in climate paradox
The crisis affected everything from restaurants to factories, some of which were forced to halt production.
As Trump shreds climate rules, China’s emissions start to fall
The decline in China’s emissions, while small, may mark a turning point for the world’s largest polluter.
