Billions of dollars Congress approved for clean energy and efficiency projects are still in limbo despite court orders against the freeze on federal funds.
EVs and data centers will drive power demand in the U.S. higher, while the expansion of air conditioning will add to electricity needs in developing countries.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is dropping a rule on climate-related data. A survey of executives finds they plan to disclose the information anyway.
Staff with the EPA's Environmental Justice office were told they will be placed on administrative leave as the agency complies with President Trump's orders.
Clean-energy industry insiders said they still see growth for their sector despite President Donald Trump's effort to end some supports for renewable energy.
Groups working with businesses on climate action said they see no retreat from climate goals despite Donald Trump's pledge to end what he calls a "green scam."
"We are moving forward regardless of what this administration is or is not doing, because we have to," a manager of the group America Is All In told Newsweek.
Policy experts say President Joe Biden can rightly claim to have meaningfully reduced carbon emissions and boosted clean energy. But will those policies last?
The oil and gas industry spent more in 2024 than in any previous election. Now they want Trump to follow through on his pledge to "drill, baby, drill."
Scientific agencies around the world confirmed that 2024 surpassed the global temperature record set in 2023 as carbon emissions contribute to extreme weather.
Trump wants to "drill, baby, drill," but undoing Biden's offshore ban will likely require congressional action, and the politics of coastal drilling is complex.
President Joe Biden's decision to block Nippon Steel's takeover of U.S. Steel cheered environmental advocates who said Nippon's deal was bad for the climate.
Rules taking effect in California ban cups, clamshells and other food ware made from expanded polystyrene foam unless companies meet a high recycling target.
People who live with the pollution from plastics and petrochemical facilities hope the stalled talks on a global plastics treaty will limit plastic production.
A Department of Energy report estimates that data centers could use up to 12 percent of all electricity produced in the U.S. within the next few years.
Negotiations in South Korea for a global treaty on plastic waste stalemated over limits on plastic production and the elimination of harmful chemicals.
