Pennsylvania’s governor says the state “will be forced to go in a different direction” if grid operator PJM Interconnection does not make “significant” changes.

Democrats charge that the Trump administration’s squeeze on clean energy supply is having an inevitable consequence: higher electricity prices. The energy debate has ramped up as a government shutdown looms.

“Regenerative agriculture” is the latest buzzy marketing term in the food world, but without a clear, regulated definition or strong certification programs, it means little, critics say.

A toxic mining spill devastated Zambian farmers’ livelihoods, releasing millions of gallons of waste into the environment. The Chinese company responsible told shareholders the spill did not have “a significant impact.”

Pennsylvania was an early pioneer in renewable energy, but its progress stalled out in the early 2000s. Will the state ever catch up?

People living near the Aliso Canyon natural gas blowout in L.A.'s upscale Porter Ranch won an emergency declaration from Gov. Jerry Brown to help them relocate until it was thought safe to return. People in Latino and historically Black communities near #ChiquitaCanyonLandfill have not. A thread. /1

The world’s top fossil fuel countries still plan to produce more than twice as much coal, gas and oil as would be consistent with climate goals. In fact, they’re planning even more than they were two years ago.

Dust storms can be deadly, and scientists warn that the Midwest may have to contend with more of them: “There’s no question that climate change is one of the major drivers of dust.”

Natural gas companies argued that increasing production would lower Pennsylvanians’ electric bills. But in the last few years, residents’ bills have only gone up.

As utility costs rise nationwide, a small town in Iowa is seeing its heating and cooling costs steadily decline after installing one of the nation’s first geothermal networks.

Pregnant women who lived closest to the Aliso Canyon disaster near Los Angeles during their final trimester were twice as likely to have low birth weight babies, a risk factor for childhood and adult disease, new research found.

A proposed gold mine in Nevada will be one of the first projects permitted under revised guidance for the National Environmental Policy Act under the Trump administration.

A $$92,000 settlement agreement in North Carolina ends a four-year legal battle over a cattle farm’s damage to mountain streams.

In Virginia, a proposed natural gas plant to enable data center growth could emit more toxins than the former coal plant it’s replacing.

Solar energy has been slow to get off the ground in Iowa. Utilities may finally be realizing its potential.

Smoke from climate-driven wildfires will kill nearly 2 million Americans by 2055, a new study concludes.

Chinese miners are illegally plundering gold from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, causing vast environmental destruction and endangering human health, a new report says.

New research tracks the alarming number of European heat deaths linked with human-caused global warming.

Since 2012, at least 2,253 environmental defenders have been murdered or disappeared. Far more have been abducted, threatened, harassed and assaulted.

As federal incentives for clean energy diminish, some faith groups are helping religious communities save on energy costs. One Detroit church found solar panels a bit of a godsend.

The rise of authoritarianism and nationalist populism in some countries raises the risks that a rogue state could unilaterally launch dangerous sun-dimming solar geoengineering projects, some experts warned at a recent U.N. Environmental Programme workshop.

“Legislators always play catch-up”: Will Pennsylvania address the challenges posed by the rapid development of data centers for AI?

A California teen started an economics journal to reveal how climate change increases the costs of natural hazards. “We’re going to be inheriting this problem, and we might actually have a chance of slowing it down.”

Officials in rural Athens County, Ohio, worry their communities aren’t prepared for worsening floods. A group is working on an ambitious plan to protect residents and even reduce flooding itself.

In the underserved agricultural communities of Florida’s heartland, some work overtime while others go without insurance entirely, as the state’s insurance crisis hits hardest here.

Republicans and Democrats in Congress agree—they don’t want big cuts to NOAA’s budget and they aim to keep the agency’s research division alive, despite the Trump administration’s plan to kill it.

More than 2 million people were displaced this summer in Pakistan, as a climate-driven monsoon brings devastating floods.

Trump and RFK Jr. cancelled more than $1 billion in grants to study, control and prevent deadly neglected tropical diseases, which afflict people living in poverty worldwide.

As federal clean energy programs vanish under Trump, graduates of a New Jersey reentry solar training program face an uncertain future.

With effective weather forecasting, testing with “hail cannons,” and an ability to go into “stow” mode, solar panels can tolerate extreme weather events like hailstorms.

Amazonian Indigenous territories help reduce fire-related diseases and disease spread through animals and insects, a new study says.

While traveling through Manhattan, an NYU expert uncovers troubling air pollution levels in places you wouldn’t expect.

A rule granting the Bureau of Land Management authority to set aside public lands for conservation took effect less than a year ago. The Trump administration is moving to dismantle it.

Pamela McElwee is one of 85 scientists who refuted the Energy Department’s faulty science questioning climate change last week. Trump’s climate denialism, she believes, is designed to sow confusion—and inaction.

Disinformation, which climate deniers perfected over decades, is now at the heart of U.S. energy and climate policy and on show in Europe, where top government officials are once again lobbying for American fossil fuel companies.

Iowa residents say a House bill allowing agricultural pollution would be yet another blow to a state already facing a dire water crisis.

Promises of technological, silver-bullet climate fixes give people false hope that global warming can be stopped without reducing carbon dioxide emissions. And many geoengineering concepts are likely to have disastrous side effects, scientists say.

The Trump administration has proposed cutting funding for two climate satellites, which are in good working order and provide some of the best data on carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere.

Four Black churches in Bay Area are combining resilience hubs with charging infrastructure in an effort to bring investment to long-overlooked communities and increase their own financial stability.

Four Black churches in Bay Area are combining resilience hubs with charging infrastructure in an effort to bring investment to long-overlooked communities and increase their own financial stability. insideclimatenews.org/news/0709202...

The Whimbrel, a shorebird with a curved beak, uses Virginia’s Eastern Shore as a rest stop before migrating south for winter. Is offshore wind going to be a barrier on its route?

Shrimp harvests in southwest Louisiana, once the seafood capital of America, were down 50 percent in 2024. Local fishermen say a new LNG export terminal is to blame.

New York’s mayoral race has justifiably been about housing and affordability. But flood protection, building decarbonization and air pollution will still be challenges for the city’s next mayor.

Peoples Gas is starting an environmental cleanup of an old industrial site along the Chicago River. Residents in the city’s Bridgeport neighborhood hope to see a park replace its blight.

Indigenous people living in isolation across parts of the Amazon are among the world’s most vulnerable, without immunity to modern diseases. This week, Peruvian officials voted against creating a new reserve to protect some of them.

Nurdles, the tiny pellets used to make plastic products, are in waterways around the world. A new settlement of a citizen lawsuit against a plastics producer in Pennsylvania over water pollution could influence other cases.

A Chinese mining company spilled toxic waste into impoverished Zambian villages. Then it used a government-ordered compensation program to get people to waive their rights to sue.

Environmental groups are suing the EPA over the delay of a Biden-era rule meant to strengthen standards for hazardous air pollution from steelmaking facilities.

Coal and solar both grew in their shares of the U.S. electricity market. Here’s a breakdown by state and a look at how other power sources fared.

Human-caused climate disruption is pushing Europe into the age of megafires faster than expected. New attribution research makes the global warming fingerprint very clear.