International: United States

As Russia bombs Ukraine’s power plants, Gulf Coast LNG companies win big

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Record LNG exports to Europe are pushing up prices for US consumers even more than forecast.

The war in Iran shows us another cost of our fossil-fuel economy

Fri 6 Mar 2026

When people debate the cost of fossil fuels versus renewables, the conversation almost always centers on the price at the pump or the cost per kilowatt-hour on your electricity bill. That’s understandable — those are the costs you can see. But they’re not the whole story.

Climate deniers expected more resistance to Trump’s fossil fuel blitz

Fri 6 Mar 2026

As Donald Trump assaults the legal foundation of America’s ability to regulate global warming emissions, climate deniers have been privately celebrating what they claim is the “silent” acquiescence of billionaires, Democrats, climate activists and even reporters to the president’s aggressive pro-fossil fuel agenda.

Repeal of endangerment finding is part of a systematic effort by US to dismantle climate policy

3 Mar 2026

COMMENT: Climate policy expert and founder of the NewClimate Institute in Cologne, Germany, explains what the step means for the US and for global climate diplomacy.

Judge orders Greenpeace to pay $345m over Dakota Access pipeline protest

2 Mar 2026

Greenpeace says the case is far from over after being found liable for defamation and other claims brought by the energy firm.

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Surviving on Trump's dangerous planet

2 Mar 2026

COMMENT: Yet another war, and yet another argument for an end to oil.

Trump’s plan for rising energy costs: Pump oil, make data centers pay

26 Feb 2026

Energy affordability was in the spotlight during President Trump’s lengthy and at times rambling State of the Union address Tuesday evening as the president promised to bring down electricity prices in an effort to assuage voter concerns about rising costs.

Why California could be the big winner as EPA abandons climate policy

26 Feb 2026

The federal government is walking away from its tailpipe emissions rules, sparking a legal debate over whether states can now write their own standards.

US Supreme Court to hear bid by oil companies to toss climate suits

25 Feb 2026

The U.S Supreme Court has agreed to hear a bid by ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to scuttle a lawsuit brought by officials in Boulder, Colorado that seeks to hold the oil companies liable for helping fuel climate change in a case that could affect dozens of similar lawsuits around the country.

Trump tariff reversal could cut costs for US energy firms but will likely leave broader flows unchanged

24 Feb 2026

The U.S. Supreme Court's Friday decision to strike down trade tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump last year may ease costs for some oil producers and drillers, but experts and analysts told Reuters that broader energy flows would likely remain unchanged for now.

US succeeds in erasing climate from global energy body’s priorities

23 Feb 2026

Trump’s energy chief had threatened to leave the International Energy Agency if it continued to focus on climate.

California, Connecticut preparing 'attack' against Trump's repeal of basis of US climate regulation

20 Feb 2026

California and Connecticut are working together on a multi-state "plan of attack" against President Donald Trump's repeal of the foundation of federal climate regulation of vehicles, the states' attorneys general told Reuters on Tuesday.

US pressures global energy body to drop net zero modelling

19 Feb 2026

The United States is calling on the world's most influential energy organisation to abandon net zero emissions scenario modelling that has informed much of the global green transition, arguing the targets are unrealistic.

Newsom to world leaders: 'Donald Trump is temporary'

18 Feb 2026

California Governor Gavin Newsom has long positioned the state as a durable counterweight to Trumpism, particularly on climate policies that California has expanded as the White House retreats.

EPA boss offers forceful defence for scrapping landmark Obama climate policy

17 Feb 2026

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is just following the law, he said Saturday in Munich, where he defended the Trump administration’s move this week to disengage the United States from decades of efforts to regulate climate change.

Trump has overseen larger coal decline than any other US president

17 Feb 2026

His administration’s latest efforts to roll back US climate policy have been presented by interior secretary Doug Burgum as an opportunity to revive “clean, beautiful, American coal”.

Trump is wiping out all climate regulation. Big Oil may regret it.

12 Feb 2026

For decades, oil majors fought climate regulation. Now, they’re afraid Trump’s extreme rollbacks could leave them on the hook to pay for what they’ve done.

Trump set to gut US climate change policy and environmental regulations, White House official says

11 Feb 2026

The Trump administration is expected this week to revoke a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, according to a White House official.

US-driven gas turbine crunch may speed global clean power uptake

9 Feb 2026

A rush by U.S. utilities and tech giants to snap up as many gas turbines as possible to boost local power output is causing a global shortage of gas-power equipment and may spur other power systems to fast-track cleaner alternatives.

U.S. could issue general license for oil companies to produce in Venezuela this week

5 Feb 2026

The Trump administration could issue a general license as soon as this week for companies to produce oil and gas in Venezuela, a person familiar with the plan told CNBC on Tuesday.

Actually, I do know how to do this

5 Feb 2026

COMMENT: In retrospect, paying attention to polluters may be one of the best ways to understand what’s currently happening in the United States.

US court blocks Trump halt on last of five suspended offshore wind projects

4 Feb 2026

All five offshore wind projects halted by the Trump administration in December can resume construction following a federal judge's ruling on Monday that cleared Denmark's Orsted to proceed with its Sunrise Wind project off the coast of New York.

US court says Energy Dept climate group violated law

3 Feb 2026

The Trump administration violated federal law when it secretly formed a climate science advisory group to work on a contentious global warming report, a court has ruled.

US to unveil $12B mineral stockpile in race against China

3 Feb 2026

The White House is planning to unveil “Project Vault” as officials from at least 40 countries head to Washington to discuss a minerals market to counter Beijing.

Trump’s pick to lead the federal reserve could steer bank away from climate change

3 Feb 2026

Kevin Warsh has criticised central banks’ forays into climate change. Some activists and Democrats say the Fed hasn’t done enough.

Data centres are driving a US gas boom

2 Feb 2026

Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.

Winter drilling program in Alaska petroleum preserve can proceed, judge rules

30 Jan 2026

ConocoPhillips Alaska can proceed with an oil and gas exploration program in a portion of a vast petroleum reserve in the state after a federal judge denied a request from project opponents to halt it.

US oil lobby targets landmark EU climate law

30 Jan 2026

The declaration coincides with U.S. fossil fuel companies’ use of Trump’s trade tensions and international discord to undermine EU climate laws.

Deadly US winter storm leaves flights delayed and thousands without power

29 Jan 2026

The storm, which caused chaos from Texas to the tip of Maine over the weekend, snarled roadways, knocked out power, and buried major cities under a thick blanket of snow.

‘Abdication’: Trump takes US out of Paris climate agreement for a second time

28 Jan 2026

Experts are watching for how other countries will react as the ‘real economy’ shifts to cheaper, cleaner energy.

Whistleblowers warn that ad industry is fuelling online hatred and climate crisis

28 Jan 2026

Anonymous group of senior executives say major ad agencies are “enabling harm rather than doing good.”

As cold hits, Trump asks, where’s global warming? Scientists say it’s still here

27 Jan 2026

As much of the United States faces numbing cold, treacherous ice and heavy snow from an enormous winter storm, President Donald Trump used social media to dispute that the world is warming.

US is canceling almost $30 billion in Biden-era energy loans

27 Jan 2026

The Trump administration said it’s canceling almost $30 billion of financing from the Energy Department’s green bank after reviewing transactions approved under former President Biden.

US Democrats are shying away from climate messaging. One of their own is fighting back.

26 Jan 2026

There’s a schism within the Democratic Party about whether talking about climate change is the right message to win back control of Washington.

EPA erases references to human-caused climate change from websites

19 Dec 2025

EPA has scrubbed references to people’s contribution to rising temperatures from some of its climate change webpages.

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center

18 Dec 2025

The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

US demands EU exempt its gas from methane emissions law, document shows

17 Dec 2025

The US has demanded that the European Union exempt its oil and gas from obligations under the bloc's methane emissions law on fuel imports until 2035, a US government document seen by Reuters showed.

Ford takes US$19 billion hit after EV plan reversal

17 Dec 2025

Ford Motor Company is pivoting away from its once-ambitious electric vehicle plans amid financial losses and waning consumer demand for the vehicles in lieu of investment in more efficient gasoline-engines and hybrid EVs, the company said Monday.

How climate change broke the Pacific Northwest’s plumbing

16 Dec 2025

Flooding in the Pacific Northwest has recently turned deadly serious, as days of intense rain from a powerful atmospheric river have swollen rivers and caused widespread flooding.

Environmental groups demand a nationwide freeze on data center construction

10 Dec 2025

In a letter to Congress, the groups said data center development raises concerns about rising energy costs, water use and climate impacts. Many communities are fighting back.

Depleted Tennessee farmland is now teeming with wildlife

9 Dec 2025

Middle Fork Bottoms State Park demonstrates the benefits that flow when ecology is left to do what it does naturally.

Fossil-fuel billionaires bought up millions of shares after meeting with top Trump officials

8 Dec 2025

Co-founders’ acquisition of Venture Global shares before key permit granted draws scrutiny as pair deny wrongdoing

Rare win for renewable energy: Trump administration funds geothermal network expansion

5 Dec 2025

A first-in-the-nation heating and cooling network in Massachusetts is set to double in size.

Amy Westervelt: It’s time we stopped treating corporations as people

4 Dec 2025

COMMENT: Treating corporations as people and granting them First Amendment rights has warped US politics and harmed the climate. We need to overturn Citizens United.

Climate change is already costing US households up to $900 per year

4 Dec 2025

A new working paper from a trio of eminent economists tallies the effects of warming — particularly extreme weather — on Americans’ budgets.

Trump seeks to ease US regulations for coal-fired power plants

27 Nov 2025

President Donald Trump's administration has asked a federal court to strike down 2024 soot limits for power plants and factories.

Amid the ashes

26 Nov 2025

This year the LA wildfire came for my hometown. What happened next is a warning for us all.

G20 summit declaration stresses seriousness of climate change in snub to Trump

25 Nov 2025

The Leaders' Declaration from a Group of 20 summit in South Africa on Saturday stressed the seriousness of climate change, in a snub to U.S. President Donald Trump, who boycotted the gathering and doubts the scientific consensus that global warming is caused by human activities.