News & Commentary

New research shows that cities, utilities, hyperscalers, community-based organizations, and other stakeholders can work together to prioritize community-focused energy investments to manage rapid load growth while delivering direct local benefits.

A new appeal aims to block an industrial-scale wood pellet plant poised to harm air quality, forests, and wildlife.

Global conflicts are forcing economies that are dependent on fossil fuel imports like India to trade climate progress for energy survival. 

Cynical “futility argument” is an overlooked part of the agency’s backtracking on the climate crisis.  

The data center pressures seen in the United States and Europe are likely to spread as digital infrastructure expands worldwide. Countries need guardrails to avoid fossil lock-in, protect communities, and keep costs from rising.

Canada’s new nature strategy will only succeed if political will, Indigenous leadership, and long‑term financing translate its bold vision into coordinated, enforceable action.

Two years ago, BLM modernized its strategies for conserving water, wildlife, and other natural resources—the Trump administration is jettisoning them to advance its dirty energy program.

Deregulating pyrolysis incinerators would only result in more toxic facilities and hazardous air emissions—all in the name of false solutions to the plastic pollution crisis.

The Colombia conference highlights the critical need to phase down fossil fuels and ramp up renewables. 

This is why Amigo LNG is the wrong fit for the Gulf of California.

In its attempt to obscure greenhouse gas pollution from public view, the Trump administration’s EPA vastly understates the costs this repeal would have on Americans. 

The state legislature leads the way with new health and environmental bills.

California is re-evaluating how to more equitably reduce the catastrophic wildfire risk that’s driving up electricity bills and insurance premiums.

Hundreds of DOE-funded energy and advanced industrial manufacturing projects, representing billions in promised investment, have been canceled or frozen.

A half century of progress has been made toward abundant fisheries and thriving coastal communities, but there is still much work ahead.

Congress must invest in alternatives to gas-powered cars—including electric vehicle infrastructure, transit, biking, and walking—and avoid excessive spending on new roads and highway lanes. 

From aggressively expanding offshore drilling to reversing protections for U.S. coasts, waters, and wildlife, pro-polluters are putting the country at greater risk of the next catastrophic oil spill.

In its radical denial of settled climate change science, the Trump administration’s EPA is also ignoring mounting costs to human health and safety.

When gas prices spike, families pay. Electric vehicles offer a cheaper alternative.