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As Trump Administration Seeks to Shut Down Energy Star Program, Industry Groups Call to Save It
Itโs a voluntary program launched during a Republican administration, endorsed by manufacturers and well-recognized by U.S. consumers, who have saved an estimated $500 billion over the past 33 years guided by its familiar blue label. But President Donald Trumpโs administration has decided the Energy Star program has got to go. CNN and The Washington Post [โฆ]
Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source:
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Despite Federal Challenges, Two Leading Solar Advocates Are Continuing Their Forward Push
Two organizations that operate close to the grassroots of solar power are struggling with the chaos of the Trump administration while also feeling invigorated by the challenge of working in difficult times. I spoke this week with Anya Schoolman, founder and executive director of Solar United Neighbors, a nonprofit that organizes buying groups for rooftop [โฆ]
Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source:In Southern Arizona, Community Opposition to Mining Grows in Towns That Once Depended on the Industry
This story is co-published withArizona Luminaria, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to community-centered reporting. MAMMOTH, Ariz.โWhen Hector Denogean Sr. got his first paycheck from his new job at the Christmas copper mine in 1979, he felt like the richest 18-year-old this side of the Galiuro Mountains. His first purchase was a set of vinyl records; six [โฆ]
Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source:COP30 must heed the elephant in the room: fossil fuelsย
Oil, gas and coal cause three-quarters of global emissions. Why are they nowhere to be seen on the Belรฉm climate summit's agenda? The post COP30 must heed the elephant in the room: fossil fuels appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source:California Sues the Trump Administration for Violating the ConstitutionโAgain
California filed its latest lawsuit against the Trump administration Wednesday, this time for withholding billions of dollars allocated by Congress for electric charging infrastructure. California and attorneys general from 15 other states and the District of Columbia are suing the Federal Highway Administration for trying to thwart Congressโ $5 billion program to expand electric vehicle [โฆ]
Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source:Soybean Lab Scheduled to Close After USAID Cuts Gets a Year-Long Reprieve
A lab focused on developing soybean farming in Africa was scheduled to shutter in April, a casualty of the Trump administrationโs USAID cuts. Then a donor stepped in. Founders Pledge, an international nonprofit that supports entrepreneurs, announced that an anonymous donor offered the Soybean Innovation Lab just over $1 million to continue its work. The [โฆ]
Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source:With FEMA Under Fire, Congress Asks Whether Agency Is Ready for Hurricane Season
With the Atlantic hurricane season only weeks away, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is facing an unprecedented level of turmoil and uncertainty. President Donald Trump has suggested he might eliminate the agency. Its staff has been cut and programs canceled, while its disaster relief fund faces a likely $8 billion deficit. On Wednesday the agencyโs [โฆ]
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Soviet-era spacecraft likely to crash back to Earth
The spacecraft was meant to go to Venus but has been stuck in orbit for more than 50 years.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Trump Administration Decommissions Sea Ice Data That Sounded an Alarm on Arctic Climate Change
Key datasets used to monitor the impacts of climate change in the Arctic have emerged as the latest victim of cost-cutting by the Trump administration at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), based at the University of Colorado Boulder, announced Tuesday that NOAA was ending its support [โฆ]
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:First carbon credit scheme for early coal plant closures unveiled
Proponents hope carbon markets can offer new funding for costly transition from coal to renewables. But concerns have been raised over the risk of low-integrity credits The post First carbon credit scheme for early coal plant closures unveiled appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Is electrification a no-brainer in the race to net-zero?
Switching to electricity in homes and on the road is a relatively painless way to cut emissions, but few countries have a holistic approach to going electric The post Is electrification a no-brainer in the race to net-zero? appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Children born in 2020 will face โunprecedented exposureโ to climate extremes
Children born in 2020 will face โunprecedented exposureโ to extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts... The post Children born in 2020 will face โunprecedented exposureโ to climate extremes appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Cropped 7 May 2025: Ocean alarm; Tariff deforestation risk; West Africaโs fisheries
We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food... The post Cropped 7 May 2025: Ocean alarm; Tariff deforestation risk; West Africaโs fisheries appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Blow to clean energy drive as major windfarm ditched
In a blow to the government's clean energy ambitions, a company cancels a huge windfarm off Yorkshire.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by worldโs โwealthiest 10%โ
The โwealthiest 10%โ of people on the planet are โresponsibleโ for 65% of the 0.61C... The post Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by worldโs โwealthiest 10%โ appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Scientists Forecast a Big Increase of Clear-Air Turbulence That Could Lead to Bumpier Flights
VIENNAโScientists at the European Geosciences Union conference last week said there is growing scientific evidence that global warming is driving a big increase in dangerous clear-air turbulence, which is invisible from the cockpit and can surprise pilots and damage aircraft. Along some busy flight routes, turbulence is projected to โdouble or treble or quadruple over [โฆ]
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Seaweed Could Reduce Methane Emissions from Grazing Cattle, New Study Shows
New research from the University of California, Davis on feeding seaweed to grazing cattle shows that the practice could significantly reduce the greenhouse gases released by livestock, which produce roughly 14.5 percent of the climate-warming emissions. The peer-reviewed study, published in December 2024 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was led by [โฆ]
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Without debt relief, climate action will fail
Many Global South countries spend five times more on repaying debt than tackling climate change - governments meeting in Seville next month can stop this downward spiral The post Without debt relief, climate action will fail appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Trump Aims to Fast Track Alabama Coal Build-Out, Citing US Need. Nearly All the Coal Is Bound for Export
BROOKWOOD, Ala.โThe Trump administration has announced it will aim to fast track the permitting and environmental review of a major coal mine expansion in central Alabama as part of a larger effort to accelerate the construction of what the government has labeled โcritical mineralโ infrastructure. While administration officials said the change is aimed at โsignificantly [โฆ]
Published on: May 06, 2025 | Source:Scientists Are Reviving Climate and Nature Research Efforts in the Wake of Trump Cuts
The first few months of the Trump administration have been marked by deep cuts to funding and staffing for scientific research. Among them: two major government reports that would have offered a pulse check for nature and climate in the country, and how changes could impact people and the economy. Now, scientists are resurrecting these [โฆ]
Published on: May 06, 2025 | Source:Attenborough at 99 delivers 'greatest message he's ever told'
Sir David says his new film Ocean is one of the most important of his career.
Published on: May 06, 2025 | Source:Worldโs Researchers Say They Will Resist Attacks on Science and Support Beleaguered U.S. Colleagues
VIENNA, AustriaโThe global science community promised late last Friday that it would rally around American researchers and rise to meet a well-documented wave of anti-science propaganda and disinformation thatโs swamping global media and misguiding decision-making around topics like global warming, plastic pollution, agriculture and pandemics. Leaders of the largest Earth science organizations in the U.S. [โฆ]
Published on: May 06, 2025 | Source:Michigan Researcherโs Work on Air Pollution and Racial Inequities Caught in Funding Freeze at National Science Foundation
For two years, Ember McCoy has been researching air quality and the gaps in data collection in neighborhoods in Southwest Detroit where mostly Black and Latino residents live. The project, part of McCoyโs doctorate work at University of Michigan, is suddenly at risk. The National Science Foundation, a major funder across the world for basic [โฆ]
Published on: May 06, 2025 | Source:Solar squeeze: US tariffs threaten panel production and jobs in Thailand
Chinese solar companies turned Thailand into a solar module assembly hub. Now thousands of Thai workers are caught in a trade war between Washington and Beijing The post Solar squeeze: US tariffs threaten panel production and jobs in Thailand appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: May 06, 2025 | Source:Invisible Deaths: As Climate Disasters Kill in Pakistan, the True Scale Is Unknown
When torrential rain in 2022 flooded Abdul Latifโs village in Badin, Pakistan, his roof caved in and he and his six children were forced to live on a road for a month without shelter, clean water or other basic necessities. Soon, his 3-year-old son fell sick with vomiting, diarrhea and a swollen abdomen. A government [โฆ]
Published on: May 05, 2025 | Source:Proposed Cuts to Energy and Environment Programs in Trumpโs Budget Worry Advocates and Elected Officials
Environmental and renewable energy advocates are not surprised to see their priorities skewered in President Donald Trumpโs budget request. Their question now is whether enough Congressional Republicans will be willing to defend against deep cuts to energy and infrastructure spending. The fiscal-year 2026 budget, issued on Friday, would cut non-defense discretionary spending by $163 billion, [โฆ]
Published on: May 05, 2025 | Source:Inspired N.C. Republicans Target Environmental Justice, Clean Energy Jobs and Programs
Conservative North Carolina lawmakers appear to be taking a cue from the Trump administration, proposing to slash more than 25 jobs and to eliminate key programs for environmental justice, environmental education and clean energy, state budget documents show. Those cuts alone would total nearly $736,000. Meanwhile, the Republican-held Environmental Management Commission would get its own [โฆ]
Published on: May 05, 2025 | Source:From Blight to Bright: Michigan Explores Solar Power on Brownfield Sites
Michigan has 24,000 known contaminated sites, a legacy of heavy manufacturing where industries carelessly discarded hazardous materials with minimal regulatory oversight. Taxpayers are often left to clean up these abandoned locations, known as brownfields, while the sheer volume of toxic sites has overwhelmed state regulators. With a little effort, these spaces can be more than [โฆ]
Published on: May 05, 2025 | Source:Asiaโs fossil-free future demands real transformation โ not a false transition
As it meets this week, the Asian Development Bank should stop supporting fossil gas as a "bridge" fuel and back renewable energy The post Asiaโs fossil-free future demands real transformation โ not a false transition appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: May 05, 2025 | Source:The Malayan Tiger Is at a Tipping Point, With Increasing Deaths of Both Native Populations and Big Cats
Travel funding for this project was provided by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. On a late afternoon in early October 2023, Pisie Amud, 25, took his blowpipe and left his house in the Indigenous Temiar settlement of Pos Pasik, in Malaysia. Amudโs two brothers had declined his invitation to accompany him, so he struck [โฆ]
Published on: May 04, 2025 | Source:Scientists Map Where Orphan Wells Pose Threats to Aquifers
For the first time, scientists have mapped groundwater variables nationally to understand which aquifers are most vulnerable to contamination from orphan wells. Oil and gas wells with no active owner that are no longer producing and have not been plugged are considered orphan wells. These unplugged wells can create pathways for contaminants like hydrocarbons and [โฆ]
Published on: May 04, 2025 | Source:Climate Disaster Survivors Organize Across America, Turning Common Bonds of Loss Into Action
The flames took Erica Solove by surprise. It was the middle of winter in Colorado. Blizzards were to be expected. A fire? Not so much. Yet on Dec. 30, 2021, the Marshall Fire tore through the towns of Louisville and Superior in Boulder County, killing two people and destroying more than a thousand homes. Soloveโs [โฆ]
Published on: May 03, 2025 | Source:Five Patagonian Lakes Are Rapidly Drying, Study Shows
Hidden between volcanic cones in the Patagonian Steppe lies Laguna Blanca, an oasis-like lake in an otherwise arid region. Home to black-neck swans, red-eyed silvery grebes and dark-spotted endemic frogs, the serene body of water is the main attraction of the Laguna Blanca National Park, a natural reserve in the Argentine Province of Neuquรฉn. Over [โฆ]
Published on: May 03, 2025 | Source:How Massive Cuts to NOAA Could Impact Everything From Weather Apps to Agriculture to National Security
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radioโs environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with journalist Abrahm Lustgarten, an editor covering climate at ProPublica. It is not an easy time to be a climate scientist. The Trump administration is slashing research funds. And on April 28, hundreds of scientists were dismissed from [โฆ]
Published on: May 03, 2025 | Source:'Unparalleled' snake antivenom made from man bitten 200 times
Scientists hope to make a universal antivenom from the extraordinary blood of a man exposed to snake venom for decades.
Published on: May 03, 2025 | Source: