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Aging infrastructure is to blame for Winter Storm Fern’s weather outages — and for recent price spikes.

To keep the lights on, states like New York and Massachusetts will need to build projects that are currently “impossible.”

New research shows that city and state climate policies often leave renters behind.

Former utility commissioner Tim Echols talks climate change, the Republican party, and how the state will deal with rising power demand.

The agency’s plan would narrow water quality reviews and make it harder for tribes to enforce treaty rights.

Through television ads and online campaigns, industry-backed groups are promising jobs, clean energy, and lower electricity bills.

New Mexico’s lawsuit accuses three Texas executives of pocketing revenue from oil and gas wells and offloading cleanup costs to the public. An investigation in 2024 by ProPublica and Capital & Main uncovered some of these business dealings.

Startup David Energy is giving batteries to its New York City customers to help them reduce hefty demand charges on their monthly utility bills.

Feel like you're at the North Pole at the moment? There's good reason for that.

In Louisiana and Mississippi, people living near wood-pellet mills say they’re getting sick.

Climate change is opening up previously inaccessible land and sea, boosting global interest in Greenland.

A Q&A with Sam Kass, a former Obama nutrition advisor, on the Trump administration’s new dietary guidelines and what they mean for the climate.

Historians say underpinning Trump's talk of national security lies a longstanding pattern of American entitlement to Native land.

Across the country, communities that lost grants have responded in a variety of ways — suing the government, searching for other funds, or simply moving on.

Trump’s attacks on bedrock environmental and climate laws are inherently fragile — and could reflect the president’s preference for political dominance over lasting change.

Seven snapshots reveal how climate rollbacks altered the trajectory of U.S. energy, environmental protection, and economic security.

Politicians are pushing for one of the driest states to become a haven for data centers.

As mosquitoes spread dengue and chikungunya, Bangladeshi cleanup crews are taking public health into their own hands.

In 2025, regulatory rollbacks and surging power demand helped buoy an industry in trouble.

If enacted, the Utah and Oklahoma measures would restrict litigation against oil companies over their role in the climate crisis.