{ "entity": "EnergyNews", "subtitle": "An eCorp Venture", "domain": "energynews.org", "vertical": "Climate & Energy", "count": 18, "generated_at": "2026-06-04T19:37:08.127Z", "articles": [ { "title": "As Energy Demand Rises, More States Turn to Virtual Power Plants", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04062026/inside-clean-energy-virtual-power-plants-role-in-transition-away-from-fossil-fuels/", "summary": "An executive order in Massachusetts and a regulatory commission action in Minnesota are among the big moves this year that highlight the growing role of virtual power plants in grid management. A virtual power plant, or VPP, is a network of resources that a central controller can", "source": "Inside Climate News", "published": "Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000", "image": null, "_source_themes": [ "climate", "energy", "solar", "environment" ], "_source_weight": 2, "_score": 16 }, { "title": "No, rolling back these environmental rules won’t lower your grocery bill", "url": "https://grist.org/economics/no-rolling-back-these-environmental-rules-wont-lower-your-grocery-bill/", "summary": "The Trump administration is dismantling two EPA rules, promising cheaper groceries for struggling families. Economists and former officials say it'll only make things pricier.", "source": "Grist", "published": "Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:30:00 +0000", "image": null, "_source_themes": [ "climate", "energy", "environment" ], "_source_weight": 2, "_score": 16 }, { "title": "Dolphins, Sharks, Turtles and Workers Are All Victims of Unregulated Squid Fleets", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03062026/unregulated-squid-fleets-threaten-ocean-life-and-workers/", "summary": "While their dazzling bright lights are visible from space, much of the global squid fleet operates in total darkness.   Hundreds of former Indonesian and Filipino crew members working onboard squid ships have exposed widespread environmental crimes and human rights abuses on the ", "source": "Inside Climate News", "published": "Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:01:00 +0000", "image": null, "_source_themes": [ "climate", "energy", "solar", "environment" ], "_source_weight": 2, "_score": 16 }, { "title": "In a Years-Long Fight, the Illinois Environmental Justice Movement Gets a Win", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03062026/illinois-environmental-justice-legislation/", "summary": "After years of fighting to curb toxic pollution in communities of color, Illinois activists are celebrating a step forward.  A bill expanding the state’s regulatory obligations over industrial air polluters in environmental justice communities passed the state legislature last we", "source": "Inside Climate News", "published": "Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:43:34 +0000", "image": null, "_source_themes": [ "climate", "energy", "solar", "environment" ], "_source_weight": 2, "_score": 16 }, { "title": "Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of Youth Climate Case Against Trump", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03062026/appeals-court-dismisses-lighthiser-v-trump-youth-climate-case/", "summary": "A federal appeals court has sided with the Trump administration and 19 Republican-led states in a constitutional challenge to several of President Donald Trump’s executive orders designed to boost fossil fuels, concluding that the youth plaintiffs failed to bring a viable case ag", "source": "Inside Climate News", "published": "Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:50:45 +0000", "image": null, "_source_themes": [ "climate", "energy", "solar", "environment" ], "_source_weight": 2, "_score": 16 }, { "title": "In Alabama Primary Elections, Incumbent Utility Regulators Feel the Squeeze of High Energy Prices", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03062026/alabama-utility-regulators-primary-election/", "summary": "MONTGOMERY, Ala.—For some incumbents, politics have turned sour in sweet home Alabama. In the May 26 primary election for two seats on the Public Service Commission, the state’s utility regulator, voters rejected one incumbent and sent another to a runoff.  The electoral shakeup ", "source": "Inside Climate News", "published": "Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:55:00 +0000", "image": null, "_source_themes": [ "climate", "energy", "solar", "environment" ], "_source_weight": 2, "_score": 16 }, { "title": "A New N.C. Ratepayer Bill Puts the Brakes on Data Centers, but Incentivizes Fossil Fuels", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03062026/north-carolina-ratepayer-protection-act-fuels-power-plants/", "summary": "RALEIGH, N.C.—The Ratepayer Protection Act, wending its way through the North Carolina legislature, conjoins two opposing ideas: rein in data centers and their power consumption but liberate Duke Energy from limits on fossil fuels. The first section of Senate Bill 730 would forbi", "source": "Inside Climate News", "published": "Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:45:00 +0000", "image": null, "_source_themes": [ "climate", "energy", "solar", "environment" ], "_source_weight": 2, "_score": 16 }, { "title": "New York backtracked on its climate goals. Here’s why.", "url": "https://grist.org/politics/new-york-kathy-hochul-climate-law-clcpa-natural-gas-methane/", "summary": "Lawmakers wanted to lead the energy transition, but Governor Kathy Hochul is worried about the cost of ditching natural gas.", "source": "Grist", "published": "Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:45:00 +0000", "image": null, "_source_themes": [ "climate", "energy", "environment" ], "_source_weight": 2, "_score": 16 }, { "title": "The fight to protect pollinators and people from the ‘pesticides that are everywhere’", "url": "https://grist.org/sponsored/the-fight-to-protect-pollinators-and-people-from-the-pesticides-that-are-everywhere/", "summary": "Neonics are contaminating ecosystems and communities.", "source": "Grist", "published": "Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:33:53 +0000", "image": null, "_source_themes": [ "climate", "energy", "environment" ], "_source_weight": 2, "_score": 16 }, { "title": "A simple — yet expensive — way to climate-proof the grid: Bury the power lines", "url": "https://grist.org/solutions/a-simple-yet-expensive-way-to-climate-proof-the-grid-bury-the-power-lines/", "summary": "Underground power lines are far less vulnerable to extreme weather, but burying them doesn't come cheap. After a historic ice storm in northern Michigan, utilities there are reconsidering the cost.", "source": "Grist", "published": "Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:30:00 +0000", "image": null, "_source_themes": [ "climate", "energy", "environment" ], "_source_weight": 2, "_score": 16 }, { "title": "70-foot wastewater geyser reflects New Mexico’s latest oilfield challenge", "url": "https://grist.org/energy/70-foot-wastewater-geyser-reflects-new-mexicos-latest-oilfield-challenge/", "summary": "It’s a towering example of the contentious debate over what to do with the state’s ever-growing supply of oilfield waste.", "source": "Grist", "published": "Sun, 31 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000", "image": null, "_source_themes": [ "climate", "energy", "environment" ], "_source_weight": 2, "_score": 16 }, { "title": "A first among major nations, India is industrializing with solar", "url": "https://grist.org/energy/a-first-among-major-nations-india-is-industrializing-with-solar/", "summary": "India is increasingly turning to cheap solar to meet its booming energy needs. Its solar buildout could soon be a model for other emerging economies.", "source": "Grist", "published": "Sat, 30 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000", "image": null, "_source_themes": [ "climate", "energy", "environment" ], "_source_weight": 2, "_score": 16 }, { "title": "Ask a Climate Therapist: Is it still ‘catastrophizing’ if the threat is real?", "url": "https://grist.org/culture/ask-a-climate-therapist-is-it-still-catastrophizing-if-the-threat-is-real/", "summary": "Licensed therapist Leslie Davenport breaks down some of the tools that can help manage anxiety in the face of mounting climate catastrophe.", "source": "Grist", "published": "Fri, 29 May 2026 08:30:00 +0000", "image": null, "_source_themes": [ "climate", "energy", "environment" ], "_source_weight": 2, "_score": 16 }, { "title": "Everlane, Shein, and the myth of sustainable fashion", "url": "https://grist.org/culture/everlane-shein-and-the-myth-of-sustainable-fashion/", "summary": "No matter what a retailer says about its climate goals, its main goal is to make you buy more clothes.", "source": "Grist", "published": "Thu, 28 May 2026 18:46:56 +0000", "image": null, "_source_themes": [ "climate", "energy", "environment" ], "_source_weight": 2, "_score": 16 }, { "title": "The world’s largest data center was supposed to run on 100% natural gas. Utah’s Republican governor says ‘never.’", "url": "https://grist.org/accountability/data-center-natural-gas-utah-cox-box-elder-stratos/", "summary": "Governor Spencer Cox says nuclear, geothermal, and solar power should help fuel the colossal Stratos Project.", "source": "Grist", "published": "Thu, 28 May 2026 08:30:00 +0000", "image": null, "_source_themes": [ "climate", "energy", "environment" ], "_source_weight": 2, "_score": 16 }, { "title": "‘I need Chevron’: The oil company at the center of the California governor’s race", "url": "https://grist.org/politics/chevron-oil-california-governor-becerra-steyer/", "summary": "California is trying to phase out fossil fuels, but it still needs gas. That makes for messy politics.", "source": "Grist", "published": "Tue, 26 May 2026 08:30:00 +0000", "image": null, "_source_themes": [ "climate", "energy", "environment" ], "_source_weight": 2, "_score": 16 }, { "title": "California Pesticide Regulators Say New Rules Protect Communities as Applications of a Dangerous Fumigant Rise", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04062026/california-pesticide-applications-rise-despite-regulations/", "summary": "California regulators passed a rule in January 2024 that they said would protect communities from one of the state’s most popular, and dangerous, pesticides. For decades, they knew that 1,3-dichloropropane, or 1,3-D, causes tumors in multiple organs in laboratory animals, which l", "source": "Inside Climate News", "published": "Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000", "image": null, "_source_themes": [ "climate", "energy", "solar", "environment" ], "_source_weight": 2, "_score": 6 }, { "title": "Blood in the well: One town’s fight against the slaughterhouse polluting it", "url": "https://grist.org/accountability/blood-in-the-well-one-towns-fight-against-the-slaughterhouse-polluting-it/", "summary": "Residents of a Pennsylvania town took on a beef processor after its waste polluted their wells. They won — but little may change.", "source": "Grist", "published": "Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:30:00 +0000", "image": null, "_source_themes": [ "climate", "energy", "environment" ], "_source_weight": 2, "_score": 6 } ] }