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Airlines target EU climate rules after carmakers showed the way
The recent weakening of the ban on gasoline and diesel cars is fueling calls for a similar reversal in the aviation sector.
Australia swelters in record heat as temperatures hit 120 F
The heat wave follows another earlier this month amid one of Australia's hottest-ever summers.
Trump opposes wind energy. That could be a tough sell in Iowa.
The president takes his affordability message Tuesday to the state where turbine farms have helped keep electricity prices low.
Transmission line stopped sending hydropower during Arctic storm
The energy interruption from the new Canada to New England line raises questions about the region’s electricity mix.
So long, Paris: US officially leaves landmark climate pact
President Donald Trump has formally removed the U.S. from the historic agreement that aims to limit global warming.
Carbon trade measure slipped into spending package
Language from the “PROVE IT Act” was incorporated into funding legislation President Donald Trump signed into law last week.
Minnesota climate lawsuit survives oil industry appeal
The case asks Exxon Mobil, Koch Industries and the American Petroleum Institute to pay up for climate impacts.
‘Fantastic’ rally exposes Trump’s limits as green stocks soar
Capital has continued to flow into renewables. The S&P equity index tracking clean energy has soared 64 percent over the past year.
Nvidia launches AI technologies to aid weather forecasting
Artificial intelligence underpins a revolution in meteorology as AI is starting to replace forecasts long generated by supercomputers.
The data center surge has a hidden source of carbon emissions
Concrete is a significant portion of the emissions associated with building data centers. But the “boom in data centers is providing an opportunity to evaluate, address and move on the carbon impacts of concrete,” said an engineer.
Italian expert’s manufactured snow will play big role at Winter Olympics
Olympic athletes want a course that will hold up without becoming too mushy or rutted. Mother Nature can’t always provide for that.
Michigan hones in on energy costs, suing oil majors over climate ‘conspiracy’
It became the 11th state to file a lawsuit against the petroleum industry, despite efforts by the Trump administration to block the case.
Trump quickly approves disaster aid for 12 states hit by storm
But FEMA protections are now in limbo, with Democrats vowing to block a Homeland Security funding bill after a federal agent killed a Minneapolis protester Saturday.
US green manufacturers lost at least 10,000 jobs last year
Employment losses across the clean energy sector undercut the Trump administration's broader push to revive U.S. manufacturing.
Blue states back lawsuit against Trump renewable policies
State attorneys general warned that six administration actions being challenged in federal court "severely and unlawfully" hinder wind and solar project development.
New Mexico climate hawks renew push to codify emissions goals
Last year's "Clear Horizons Act" died in committee after some Democrats warned about its impact on low-income residents.
What weather apps can miss about dangerous winter storm conditions
“Apps don’t understand the details of why snow, sleet or freezing rain happens," a meteorology professor said.
Key tech to unlock Greenland is made only by US allies, adversaries
The only way to achieve anything in the semiautonomous Danish territory is through icebreakers’ crucial ability to cut trails through frozen seas.
How heat and a megadrought primed Chile for devastating wildfires
Climate change has amplified fire conditions in South America and elsewhere, and the recent fires broke out amid a severe heat wave, with high temperatures in some places around 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Germany lauds climate finance pact decried by South African minister
South Africa’s electricity minister said the money offered under the compact wasn’t “competitive” with debt available through capital markets.
