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Cars pass a data center under construction in Ashburn, Va., on Nov, 12, 2025. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Clean Energy Advocates Criticize ‘Glaring’ Omission in White House Plan to Fuel Data Centers in PJM Region

By Marianne Lavelle, Kiley Bense

Xcel Energy’s coal-fired Comanche Generating Station in Pueblo, Colo. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Trump’s Push for Coal in Colorado Could Bring ‘Massive’ Harm to Public Lands and Rural Communities, Advocates Say

By Jake Bolster

An oilfield operation is seen on leased land managed by the BLM’s Bakersfield office in Kern County, California. Credit: Jesse Pluim/BLM

Will Trump’s Push to Drill on California Public Lands be More Successful This Time Around?

By Blanca Begert

Duke Energy’s Asheville Combined Cycle Station, a natural gas power plant, in Buncombe County, N.C. Credit: Duke Energy

Duke Energy Plans to Build a Massive Natural Gas Power Plant in Davidson County. But Where, Exactly?

By Lisa Sorg

Crusoe plans to build a massive data center campus, like this one in Abilene, Texas, in southeast Wyoming. Credit: Courtesy of Crusoe

Wyoming County Approves Construction of What Could Become the Largest Data Center in US

By Leigh Reagan Smith

Sections of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline are seen at a construction site in Park Rapids, Minn., in 2021. Credit: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

New EPA Proposal Would Strip States’ and Tribes’ Authority to Block Oil and Gas Pipelines, Other Infrastructure Projects

By Teresa Tomassoni

Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito attends inauguration ceremonies for President Donald Trump in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Alito’s Recusal in Oil Case Renews Questions About Justice’s Investments

By Marianne Lavelle

ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance speaks during a meeting about Venezuela with President Donald Trump and other oil executives at the White House on Friday. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Fight Over Venezuelan Oil Highlights Shadowy International Legal System

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Lick Run, a tributary to West Virginia’s Cheat River, is one of many waterways in Appalachia that are impaired by pollution from coal mining. Acid mine drainage can create a reddish coloring in affected streams. Credit: Courtesy of Friends of the Cheat

Coal Communities Accuse Congress of Breaking Its Promise to Clean Up Abandoned Mine Lands

By Kiley Bense

Coastal waters flow through deteriorating wetlands in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Since the 1930s, Louisiana has lost over 2,000 square miles of land, an area roughly the size of Delaware, partially due to climate-driven sea level rise. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

After Losing a Climate Case in a Louisiana Courtroom, Chevron Wants a Change of Venue

By Lee Hedgepeth

President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, meets with U.S. oil company executives in the at the White House on Friday. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Oil Executives Non-Committal to Trump’s Venezuela Pitch at the White House

By Dennis Pillion

A PolarOil storage facility is seen on March 26, 2025, in Nuuk, Greenland. Credit: Leon Neal/Getty Images

As Trump Eyes Greenland, What Could That Mean for Island’s Mineral Wealth and Environment?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A view of the El Palito refinery operated by Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA. Credit: Jesus Vargas/picture alliance via Getty Images

‘The Dirtiest, Worst Oil’ Is in Venezuela

By Phil McKenna

A fisherman casts a net into the sea as an oil tanker is seen anchored in the background on Dec. 18, 2025, in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. Credit: Jesus Vargas/Getty Images

Oil Industry Will Eye Venezuela Warily, Experts Say

By Marianne Lavelle, Georgina Gustin

Debra Ramirez said oil refining operations by petrochemical plants have systematically dismantled her Lake Charles, Louisiana, community.

Venezuelan Oil Brought to the U.S. Would Be Refined in Black Gulf Communities

Adam Mahoney, Capital B

An aerial view shows multiple barges on the water.

The Loosely Regulated Petrochemical Barge Industry Is Commandeering a Texas River

By Salina Arredondo, Public Health Watch

Plant Barry’s toxic coal ash lagoon is more than a mile across at some points and is surrounded by the Mobile River, located just feet from its edge. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

How Alabama Power Has Left the ‘American Amazon’ at Risk

By Lee Hedgepeth

Demonstrators attend a Stand Up for Science rally to highlight the critical role of science in public health, environmental stewardship and education at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on March 7. Credit: Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

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