Inside Climate News

At last year’s climate COP, governments agreed to phase out fossil fuels. So why do oil and gas companies stand to get paid millions of taxpayers’ dollars when their projects are axed?

As an attorney general for Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro was tough on fracking. But environmentalists say he’s courted the oil and gas industry as governor.

The Inflation Reduction Act is giving an Ohio city the nudge it needed to shut down an old coal plant and replace it with solar and batteries.

A U.S. District Court this month allowed the sale of leases for oil and gas drilling on almost 120,000 acres of public land in Wyoming. The ruling comes three months after the same court found the Bureau of Land Management failed to thoroughly link its emissions analysis to its decision to hold an auction.

The auto and oil industry both worked for decades to slow pollution regulations. Now, EVs have touched off the ultimate lobbying battle for the industries, in which they are faced off not only against policymakers, but each other.

Demand for lithium to support the renewable energy transition will result in more mining, leading to new research on how extracting the mineral will impact the water supplies of vulnerable communities.

Texas ranks third in the country for small-scale solar including rooftop solar, but it has a lot of room to grow. As the state recovers from Hurricane Beryl, we look at what’s driving this market.

A class-action lawsuit alleges that American Airlines mismanaged employees’ 401(k)s by investing with groups that engage in ESG funds. The lawsuit could have broad repercussions in the world of sustainable investing.

Maryland Gov. Moore joined a group of fellow governors in pressing regional grid operator PJM to speed up transmission expansion as a recent federal rule requires state clean energy priorities to be included in grid planning.