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RICHMOND, Va.—Before the start of Virginia’s legislative session in January, 53-year-old William Ward attended a Virginia League of Conservation Voters rally in Petersburg, where he learned about how the state’s data center industry is straining the grid, harming the environment

As the country sizzled through heat waves, the government removed some of its most actionable advice about how to conserve energy.

Virginia’s Governor Weighs in on Pivotal Case About Data Center Transmission Costs and more — today's energy signal.

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, through a filing submitted by her newly appointed chief energy officer, is urging regulators at the State Corporation Commission to assign costs of transmission projects driven by data center needs to those facilities.  The governor’s involvement

Workers proud of their efforts to grow renewable energy say the U.S. president is pursuing a "personal vendetta" at their expense.

Global oil demand, disrupted by the Iran war, is poised to shrink in 2026, the first time that’s happened since the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Energy Agency said on Friday. What’s unclear is how the conflict will influence the long-term trajectory of oil demand, which i

In a revised energy plan, the Tennessee Valley Authority follows Trump administration directives and shies away from solar and wind.

RICHMOND, Va.—Before the start of Virginia’s legislative session in January, 53-year-old William Ward attended a Virginia League of Conservation Voters rally in Petersburg, where he learned about how the state’s data center industry is straining the grid, harming the environment

As the country sizzled through heat waves, the government removed some of its most actionable advice about how to conserve energy.

A year after Trump repealed the Inflation Reduction Act, the outlook for climate action is dark. But there are silver linings.

Two executive orders signed Monday afternoon slashed the size of the Utah national monuments revered by tribes and public lands advocates. Grazing, mining, and drilling interests wanted them opened to extraction.

Reporting supported by the Water Desk at the University of Colorado Boulder. HATCH, N.M.—After 13 years, Texas and New Mexico have finally reached a settlement in a Supreme Court case over Rio Grande water management. Now comes the hard part. Texas sued New Mexico in 2013, arguin

Welcome to Inside Climate, a new podcast from the staff of Inside Climate News.  In our second episode, co-host Jake Bolster interviews two of our Texas reporters, Dylan Baddour and Arcelia Martin, on a water crisis in Corpus Christi, Texas, that’s been decades in the making.  Pa

Data centers have drawn vocal opposition at local public meetings and in state capitols across the U.S.

On May 27, a massive pod of more than 400 long-finned pilot whales was spotted off the coast of Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands—a remote archipelago located about 200 miles north of Scotland. By early evening, dozens of motorboats converged on the animals, forming a wi

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Judith Enck, the founder of advocacy group Beyond Plastics. After World War II, plastics grew from a cheap wartime alternative to a staple in the Americ

Parts of South Texas ravaged by flooding this week have logged a steep rise in rainfall intensity over recent decades, federal data show.  The latest official dataset, published in 2018 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), increased estimates of benchmar

Residents of one First Nations community went door-to-door warning neighbors before fleeing by boat. More than 900 fires continue burning across Canada.