Why US oil production could even go into reverse
17 Apr 2025
The prospect of U.S. oil production growth not just stalling but going into reverse is edging into the picture.
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No relief from the heat as many US cities will see record overnight temperatures
Wed 15 Jul 2026
Another week of blistering heat will bring even more health risks in the coming days, as overnight temperatures won’t provide much relief.
The rise and fall of the fracking phenomenon
Wed 15 Jul 2026
The fracking boom remade the U.S. economy and global energy markets. It also left behind a complicated legacy of winners, losers and lasting political fights.
‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies
Wed 15 Jul 2026
Dozens of projects are in development across US despite concerns over environmental and health risks.
Trump administration opens endangered species’ habitats to development, reversing 50 years of environmental law
Tue 14 Jul 2026
The Trump administration reversed decades of longstanding environmental law protecting endangered species on Friday, opening up sensitive habitats of those protected species to drilling, mining, farming and real estate development.
'Like putting a flat earther in charge of NASA': Trump appoints climate denier to key climate post
Mon 13 Jul 2026
Putting an “utterly unqualified” person like Matthew Wielicki in charge of the National Climate Assessment, said one critic, “would jeopardise the integrity of one of the nation’s most important climate science resources.”
Clean energy hurt but resilient one year after Trump winding back climate policy
8 Jul 2026
The GOP budget law that President Trump signed a year ago has darkened the outlook for several clean energy sources, but stopped far short of strangling low-carbon tech.
California's first carbon capture project is up and running. Environmentalists are still trying to stop it.
7 Jul 2026
As the state drafts pipeline rules for projects injecting CO2 underground, environmental groups are pressing for a more thorough assessment of the newly launched operation.
‘Extremely high’ rates of heat-related ER visits in US due to extreme heat
6 Jul 2026
A deadly, multiday heat wave tightened its grip on the eastern United States on Friday, breaking records, sending people to the emergency room and raising the risk for millions of people.
Gas plants for US data centers to be major source of climate change-linked emissions, report says
3 Jul 2026
Dozens of planned gas plants to directly power data centers in the United States could emit as much greenhouse gas annually as Australia or France, according to a report by an environmental group published on Wednesday.
Trump administration can remove history and climate info from US parks, court says
3 Jul 2026
The Trump administration does not have to reinstate materials related to climate change, immigration and slavery that it has removed from national parks, a US appeals court ruled on Thursday.
