Energy and Environment: The quest to keep carbon in North Carolina’s wetlands
Undoing Trump, EPA to empower states and tribes to oppose pipelines; House Republicans to unveil conservative road map on climate, energy; Biden wants to rebuild the EPA. He doesn't have the money to do it.; In worsening drought, Southern California water restrictions take effect ; U.S. lags in latest global climate ranking; Climate pressure from employees, shareholders rattles Big Oil; Forest Service finds its planned burns sparked N.M.'s largest wildfire; Facing a power crisis and searing heat, India falls back on coal; Key nations agree to halt funding for new fossil fuel projects; In a small Dutch town, a fight with Meta over a massive data center; How humid air, intensified by climate change, is melting Greenland ice; Sandstorm wave sweeps Middle East, sending thousands to hospitals; U.K. imposes windfall tax on oil and gas company profits as inflation bites; As China mines more coal, levels of a more potent greenhouse gas soar
"Every time you lose a foot of peat, there are just so many emissions associated with that," says one federal official. But the long-running restoration efforts need private partners in order to scale up.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy plans to call for boosting domestic fossil fuel production and streamlining the permitting process for large infrastructure projects.
After years of neglect, President Biden promised to reinvigorate the agency. But budgetary woes are preventing the nation's top pollution regulator from doing its job.
Under new rules taking effect Wednesday, outdoor water use for more than 6 million residents in the Los Angeles area will be limited to one day per week amid the record-breaking drought fueled by the warming climate.
Just four countries — China, India, Russia and the United States — will account for 50 percent of residual global emissions in 2050 if current trends hold.
Although India has pledged to be a leader in renewable energy, recent weeks have shown the country is still heavily reliant on coal to meet soaring power demand.
Top environmental ministers from the Group of Seven major industrial countries have agreed to end government financing for international coal-fired power generation.
The faceoff over Meta's planned data center highlights the emerging fight over how to sustain cloud computing and data streaming while protecting the environment, even if these centers use renewable energy.
A new study highlights how a stream of warm, moist air caused excessive melting over Greenland in 2021, an increasingly common occurrence over the past decade.
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