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States want to make Big Oil pay for climate harm. Now, courts are weighing in.
New York’s "climate superfund” law has suffered two losses in court, while a U.S. Supreme Court case next week could determine the fate of similar efforts nationwide.
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How elite universities got tangled up in politics and petroleum
Half a century of corporate influence set the stage for Trump's attacks, a new study argues.
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After Trump opened Bears Ears land to business, prospectors swooped in
All the claims on the 1.2 million acres appear to have been filed by small-scale miners in Utah with an interest in uranium.
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Why Germany is building an ark for US climate data
Fearing the Trump administration might meddle with U.S. climate data, scientists in Germany are preparing to transfer vast troves of that data to repositories in Hamburg.
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A rural Idaho county banned renewables. It’s having second thoughts.
Some residents oppose renewables. Others see property rights — and the chance to benefit from energy developments on their land — as fundamental. This fall, county leaders will decide.
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![A solar farm takes in sun while smokestacks from a power plant puff in the background.]()
![A solar farm takes in sun while smokestacks from a power plant puff in the background.]()
Gas, solar, and tech companies all want this bill. Will Congress pass it?
Permitting reform is popular in Washington, but facilitating data centers is "toxic" with voters.
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![Senator John Boozman leans over and appears to whisper something to Senator Mitch McConnell at a Senate Agriculture Committee meeting.]()
![Senator John Boozman leans over and appears to whisper something to Senator Mitch McConnell at a Senate Agriculture Committee meeting.]()
Has the farm bill hit a dead end?
What was once a bipartisan slam dunk has now become a hyper-politicized game of chicken, with hunger, nutrition, and conservation programs on the line.
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The fate of the Endangered Species Act rests on 2 simple words
The Trump administration has upended protections for hundreds of endangered species by redefining the words "take" and "harm."
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![Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee in Washington, DC, on May 13, 2026.]()
![Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee in Washington, DC, on May 13, 2026.]()
Trump topples the last pillar of Biden’s climate agenda
With the repeal of a rule that limited carbon emissions from power plants, the president is further delaying the phaseout of coal.
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A federal judge just told Trump there’s no ‘emergency’ to justify keeping a Michigan coal plant open
It's one of the first successful legal challenges to the administration’s “energy emergency” agenda.
