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Calif. unions, cities come out with infrastructure asks for cap-and-trade reauthorization
The group of powerful labor and public government interests is focused on transportation, housing and wildfire projects.
China set to reach peak emissions before 2030, ex-official says
Most scientists say the country needs to follow up with sharp reductions in order to stave off the worst impacts of planet-warming emissions.
Brazilian city Belém gets rushed makeover ahead of climate summit
Unlike past COP venues, Belém lacks an established tourism sector and has some of the country’s worst poverty and patchy public services.
Japan bets on homegrown startups to prepare for hotter world
The Environment Ministry is offering $415 million of support for the commercialization of local climate and environmental technology.
E&E News reporters detail agency overhaul plans
The Trump administration is moving to change how agencies work with little input from Congress.
Heat is killing oil workers. The industry is trying to kill a rule for that.
Opposition to a planned rule to limit heat deaths comes as oil and gas workers face increasingly dangerous conditions.
Democratic states sue Trump administration over NSF cuts
The president's efforts to repeal programs that help women and minorities enter scientific fields drew a legal challenge from Democratic attorneys general.
‘Major blow’ for clean energy: Project cancellations snowball
Since January, $14 billion in projects has been ditched or delayed — $4.5 billion in April alone, the group E2 reports.
California should end its emissions offset program, researchers say
A new analysis assails a program that lets major emitters pay for projects such as forest preservation instead of cutting their own emissions.
Electric trucks to hit cost parity with diesel rigs by 2030 — report
But the trend could be disrupted if state and federal officials pull their support for the nascent industry.
EU roughly on track to hit 2030 emissions goal, Brussels says
The updated analysis reflects progress but relies on countries following through on promises amid a green backlash.
UK to fast-track new reservoirs as water-supply risks loom
The country hasn’t built a major new reservoir in more than 30 years.
After four months of disruption, Elon Musk signals he’s leaving government
The DOGE leader said his "scheduled time" as a special employee is up.
Hawaii governor OKs new hotel tax to help cope with climate change
It marks the nation's first such levy to deal with a warming planet. The measure adds 0.75 percentage point to the daily room rate tax starting Jan. 1.
Get ready for years of killer heat, top forecasters warn
The projections come from more than 200 forecasts using computer simulations run by 10 global centers of scientists.
Montana lawmakers blunt group’s historic court win on climate
The Republican-controlled Legislature is diluting a climate lawsuit that they say was won by a "bunch of little Greta Thunbergs."
A quiet change by Biden led to an LA windfall in disaster loans
The Biden administration sharply increased the maximum size of disaster loans for the first time in three decades. Los Angeles residents who survived January’s inferno got much of the money.
‘Death Star’ vessel arrives in US to help build Empire Wind
Opponents of offshore wind were aghast over the sighting of a 660-foot-long crane ship in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
King Charles says Canada will be energy ‘superpower’
The king's rare address before the Canadian Parliament came after President Donald Trump threatened to annex the country.
Projects in ex-colonies should count toward EU climate goal, Portugal says
The demand goes one step beyond a push to include regulated carbon offsets, further complicating the EU’s attempt to set a 2040 goal.