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07 09 2020 | 10:35

Trump weakens Obama-era rules on toxic wastewater from coal plants.

Steam-based plants third biggest source of toxic wastewater Pollutants released into water linked to cancer and other illness The Trump administration is loosening rules for toxic water…

07 09 2020 | 09:40

How the Chamber of Commerce's Scorecard Elevates Climate Deniers.This Needs to Change.

“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world’s largest business organization representing companies of all sizes across every sector of the economy. They all share one thing: They count on the U.S.…

07 09 2020 | 09:32

The US is in a water crisis far worse than most people imagine.

Industrial runoff and lax standards have tainted water across the US. Senators and doctors are calling me, asking what to do. When I was a little girl, my father would sing songs to me all the time…

07 09 2020 | 09:29

U.S. Plastics Pact Vows to Make All Plastic Packaging Recyclable by 2025.

More than 60 major brands, government agencies and nonprofits are coming together to create a circular economy for plastics in the United States.

07 09 2020 | 09:08

Bill Gates’ Nuclear Reactor Company Adds Molten Salt Storage to Its SMR System.

TerraPower and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy launch the Natrium concept, which pairs five hours of storage and a sodium fast reactor. TerraPower, the Bill Gates-backed nuclear innovation firm, has…

04 09 2020 | 08:17

President Donald Trump’s Climate Change Record Has Been a Boon for Oil Companies, and a Threat to the Planet.

In the middle of his 44th month in office, two weeks before the start of the Republican convention in late August, President Trump rolled back Barack Obama's last major environmental regulation,…

31 08 2020 | 08:19

Omission of climate crisis at RNC risks losing voters, some conservatives warn.

The Republican national convention, dominated by veneration of Donald Trump and bleak warnings of the dangers of socialism, has completely ignored the climate crisis, an omission that has disturbed…

31 08 2020 | 07:59

Renewable Energy Remains One of America’s Most Attractive Investment Options.

Investors who know the renewables market best believe its brightest days are still to come, writes Gregory Wetstone. Gregory Wetstone is president and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy…

31 08 2020 | 07:47

U.S. Voters Increasingly Concerned About Climate Crisis.

The dangers of climate chaos are conspicuous across the country as wildfiresrage in the West where prolonged drought has turned some forests into a tinderbox, the Gulf Coast braces for back-to-back…

25 08 2020 | 09:13

Democrats’ climate plan takes aim at the fossil fuel industry’s political power.

A three-part plan aims to expose the industry’s efforts to conceal the scale of the climate crisis, reform laws and sway support. Senate Democrats are set to release a 200-page plan arguing that…

25 08 2020 | 08:45

Amid fire and pestilence, floods and storms, the personal is political: Trump must go.

Americans face existential challenges. The president has done nothing to help and much to make things worse. My wife and I have been warned we may need to evacuate our cabin in the hills north of…

25 08 2020 | 07:33

Energy transition prompts Peabody to write down value of largest U.S. coal mine by $1.42 billion.

The largest coal mining company in the United States substantially lowered the value of one of its top-producing thermal coal assets based on low expectations for future coal demand. Peabody Energy…

23 08 2020 | 07:38

EPA Expected to Allow More Methane Emissions From Oil and Gas Industry.

In the coming days, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to use its power to roll back yet another Obama-era environmental protection meant to curb air pollution and slow the …

23 08 2020 | 07:19

Coal plants ‘uneconomical in most regions’.

U.S. coal power generation plunged by 30 percent in the first half of 2020 off an already-depressed base, shoved out by natural gas and renewables amid low energy prices linked to the COVID-19…

19 08 2020 | 06:51

Peabody’s $1.42 billion write-down concedes coal mines have little value and dim future.

Trouble at biggest mine in Powder River Basin speaks volumes about state of industry Peabody Energy, the world’s largest privately owned coal company and the biggest U.S. coal producer, has finally…

19 08 2020 | 06:41

ExxonMobil warns of possible 20% writedown in oil and gas assets.

Exxon Mobil Corp. warned that low energy prices may wipe as much as one-fifth of its oil and natural gas reserves off the books. If depressed prices persist for the rest of the year, “certain…

19 08 2020 | 06:35

Masdar Buys Into 1.6GW EDF Renewables Pipeline in One of the Year’s Biggest Deals.

Masdar and EDF are bringing their global renewables partnership into the U.S. in the midst of a topsy-turvy year. In one of the U.S. renewable energy market’s biggest deals in a challenging year,…

16 08 2020 | 09:52

Energy and the Military: Leading by Example

PITTSBURGH: As the world demands more energy, nations face the often-competing pressures to increase energy access and affordability, protect the environment, and assure energy security.  The…

16 08 2020 | 08:59

Kamala Harris’s Fracking Record Scares Big Oil But Attracts the Left.

Less than two hours after Kamala Harris was named Joe Biden’s running mate, President Donald Trump had cast the California Democrat as an oil industry and fracking foe. “She is against fracking. She…

16 08 2020 | 08:30

Indigenous Peoples Hold the Past and Future of Food in Their Hands.

August 9 is the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples – a celebration of the uniqueness of the traditions of Quechua, Huli, Zapotec, and thousands of other cultures, but also of the…