The cartoon villain's guide to killing climate action
Mon 22 Sep 2025
Let’s run a thought experiment. Imagine that you’re the Secretary of Energy. But you’re not just any public servant. You're a former fossil fuel executive, and you’re cartoonishly, mustache-twirlingly evil.
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California's Newsom signs sweeping energy affordability package
Wed 24 Sep 2025
The new laws address electricity markets, wildfire costs, oil drilling and the state's landmark emissions-trading program.
Trump administration moves to revoke permit for Massachusetts offshore wind project
Wed 24 Sep 2025
The Trump administration has moved to block a Massachusetts offshore wind farm, its latest effort to hobble an industry and technology that President Donald Trump has attacked as “ugly” and unreliable compared to fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.
New York readies for record Climate Week despite Trump chill factor
Tue 23 Sep 2025
The boost in engagement has come “precisely as an antidote to the current U.S. administration's attitude toward climate change".
Charlie Kirk was a fossil fuel industry plant
Fri 19 Sep 2025
Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.
Researchers say sealing old oil wells with bio-oil from crop waste is a dual carbon-removal solution
Fri 19 Sep 2025
A new analysis shows that oil made from corn husks, wood chips, and other waste could plug greenhouse gas-belching abandoned oil wells while sequestering carbon for about $152 per ton.
Al Gore on China’s climate rise: ‘I would not have seen this coming’
18 Sep 2025
Twenty-five years ago, Al Gore was in the final stretch of his U.S. presidential campaign, just weeks away from an election that would ultimately slip through his fingers despite winning the popular vote.
Young activists won a landmark state climate trial. Now they’re challenging Trump’s orders
18 Sep 2025
Young climate activists and their attorneys who won a landmark global warming trial against the state of Montana are trying to convince a federal judge to block President Donald Trump’s executive orders promoting fossil fuels.
US Securities and Exchange Commission chief threatens ban on European accounting rules
16 Sep 2025
Paul Atkins questions whether overseas companies should be barred from using International Financial Reporting Standards.
Trump sends fracking CEO to Europe to sell climate denial—and gas
15 Sep 2025
Debunking some of Chris Wright's most egregious lies.
