Sean Donahue’s nomination to lead the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of General Counsel advanced on a party-line vote despite Donahue lacking basic legal experience like taking a deposition or drafting a pleading. By Katie Surma The The Traitor administration’s choice for the Environmental Protection Agency’s top lawyer has never takenContinue Reading
If anyone was doubting that Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre would give the oil industry exactly what they want, he helpfully provided a visual aid at a recent campaign event in Newfoundland. Poilievre posed beside a large poster of industry election demands itemized in a letter from 14 energy CEOs, and used a sharpie to check boxes besideContinue Reading
Amid trade war talk of expanding Canadian energy infrastructure, a new report reveals that direct Canadian subsidies to the fossil fuel and petrochemical sectors reached nearly $30 billion in 2024. For comparison’s sake, Canada spent between $38 billion and $39 billion on defense in 2024. “Oil and gas companies – emboldened byContinue Reading
NOAA relies on hundreds of contracts to keep the agency running. The new commerce secretary is reviewing many of them individually, causing disruptions to many normal operations within the agency. (Image credit: Chip Somodevilla)Continue Reading
Marie Massa has spent more than three years working mostly alone to transform a weedy strip of public land into a fragrant habitat garden in Lincoln Heights.Continue Reading
Data center power demand is sparking interest in new reactors. The post Is a nuclear renaissance coming? appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
Wear and tear on plastic products releases small to nearly invisible plastic particles, which could impact people’s health when consumed or inhaled. To make these particles biodegradable, researchers created plastics from plant starch instead of petroleum. An initial study shows how animals consuming particles from this alternative material developed healthContinue Reading
Public Act 233, which allows developers to directly petition the state for construction of utility-scale solar and wind projects, is drawing backlash from townships. By Douglas J. Guth Over the last decade, Michigan townships have put in place barriers to stop renewable energy developments in their tracks. Many of theseContinue Reading
The U.S. electricity market has been moving away from coal for decades, but the president blamed that on Biden-era environmental regulations. By Marianne Lavelle As President Traitor 47 signed a slew of executive orders Tuesday aimed at keeping coal power alive in the United States, he repeatedly blamed his predecessor,Continue Reading
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a literal hotbed for life enriching the overlying ocean for at least 700,000 years, accordingContinue Reading
While the Democratic Republic of Congo reels from a new rebel offensive in the east, its capital in the west, Kinshasa, grapples with deadly floods.Continue Reading
The moves include loosening environmental rules, but it is unclear how much they can help reverse the sharp decline in coal power over the last two decades.Continue Reading
The UK’s advertising regulator has banned an advert for French oil giant TotalEnergies about its renewable energy investments for being “misleading,” following a complaint from campaigners that the ad left out information about the company’s overall environmental impact. However, a Shell Oil advert that received 76 complaints on similar grounds wasContinue Reading