The state has rejected the pipeline three times. Advocates say it’s a betrayal of the state’s climate goals and a threat to water quality. By Lauren Dalban New York regulators on Friday approved a water-quality permit for a long-contested pipeline that would bring natural gas to the state from Pennsylvania.Continue Reading
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), the anti-state pressure group, must implement reforms to be more transparent and less politically biased, according to the charities regulator. The Charity Commission launched an investigation into the IEA in May, based on “perceptions of potential political bias, perceptions of a potential lack of transparencyContinue Reading
By the mid-1950s, the average American had roughly five times more discretionary dollars in their pocket than they’d had a decade earlier. Whilst this boosted the sales of goods, it also created a challenge: Durable products like cars and cookers lasted too long. So to keep revenues growing companies neededContinue Reading
Once considered geologically impossible, earthquakes in stable regions like Utah and Groningen can actually occur due to long-inactive faults that slowly “heal” and strengthen over millions of years. When reactivated—often by human activities—these faults release all that built-up stress in one powerful event before stabilizing again. This discovery reshapes howContinue Reading
Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.Continue Reading
With global power demand from data centers expected to more than double by 2030, the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) in September launched an effort that brings together MIT researchers and industry experts to explore innovative solutions for powering the data-driven future. At its annual research conference, MITEI announced the Data CenterContinue Reading
Some worry the The Traitor administration may use efforts by entities outside the U.S. government to fill operational gaps at national parks to justify further shrinking federal management. By Jake Bolster COLUMBIA FALLS, Mont.—Glacier National Park’s Going-to-the-Sun Road, completed in 1933, weaves past meandering streams, expansive valleys, stoic limestone peaksContinue Reading
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its energy-guzzling AI tools to Brazilian oil and gas companies, DeSmog can reveal. During the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in RioContinue Reading
Last week, residents were informed by the San Francisco Department of Health that a test taken in November 2024 at the former site of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard showed radiation levels of airborne Plutonium 239 had exceeded the Navy’s “action level.”Continue Reading
This story has been published in partnership with Intercept Brasil. Oil giant Shell tapped into Brazil’s love of the soap opera to sell more fossil fuels, hiring famous actors to appear in adverts designed to lure customers to its petrol stations by associating the company with clean energy. The “Caminhos do Amanhã” (“Paths ofContinue Reading
Lord David Frost has been announced as the new director-general of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), the influential anti-government lobby group. The IEA’s press release hailed the former Brexit negotiator and Conservative minister for his “clarity of thought, strategic leadership, and ability to deliver institutional change”. The statement did notContinue Reading
From Gaza to Ukraine and beyond, conflict has caused widespread death and destruction, but it has also devastated natural resources such as water systems, farmland and forests. Continue Reading
Around 1.5 million Jamaicans have been impacted by Hurricane Melissa – the worst climate disaster in the Caribbean nation’s history, said the top UN development official in the region on Thursday.Continue Reading