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The political dramas and policy choices that are shaping the global response to the existential threat of climate change.

New National Climate Action Plans Trickle in During Climate Week, But Still Add Up to a Lot of Warming

United Nations climate summit discussions suggest that overshooting 1.5 degrees of warming is inevitable.

By Bob Berwyn

 Xi Jinping is visible on a large screen; in the room, dozens of people are seated
A data center’s liquid cooling system. Credit: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Washington Post via Getty Images

How Much Water and Energy do Data Centers Consume? A New Jersey Bill Demands Answers.

By Rambo Talabong
President Donald Trump speaks during the 80th session of the U.N.’s General Assembly at the organization’s headquarters on Tuesday in New York City. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Trump Takes His ‘Green Energy Scam’ Talk to the UN

By Dan Gearino
At Climate Week NYC, an official said the United Kingdom would expand offshore wind as part of its national climate action plan. Here, in Belfast, Norther Ireland, wind turbine blades are assembled in Belfast Harbor. Credit: Peter Titmuss/UCG/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images

At Climate Week, Chile and the UK Commit to Ocean-Based Action Plans Ahead of COP30

By Teresa Tomassoni
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks in front of the Keystone Trade Center during a press conference on Aug. 7 in Falls Township, Pa.

Citing the Need for ‘Significant Reform,’ Pennsylvania’s Governor Threatens to Pull the State Out of the Region’s Power Grid

By Kiley Bense, Aman Azhar, Charles Paullin, Dan Gearino, Rambo Talabong
Transmission lines lead to an oil refinery in Deer Park, Texas. Credit: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images

Senate Democrats Blame Trump’s Assault on Clean Energy for High Electricity Prices

By Marianne Lavelle
Liz Robinson, executive director at Philadelphia Solar Energy Association, at her solar-powered rental property in Philadelphia on Sept. 3. Credit: Laurence Kesterson/Inside Climate News

Pennsylvania Was Once a National Leader in Renewable Energy. What Happened?

By Kiley Bense, Dan Gearino
Machinery transfers coal at a port in China’s Chongqing municipality on April 20. Credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images

Top Fossil Fuel Producing Nations Plan to Blow Past Climate Targets

By Nicholas Kusnetz

After Trump Cut the National Science Foundation by 56 Percent, a Venerable Arctic Research Center Closes Its Doors

By Lisa Sorg
Children speak alongside lawmakers at a press conference in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Source: Screengrab from Sen. Ed Markey livestream

Children Plead With U.S. Lawmakers to Protect EPA’s Endangerment Finding

By Carl David Goette-Luciak
The Dark Star Mine Pit of the proposed South Railroad Mine, if approved and built, would be dug into this area. Credit: Great Basin Resource Watch

One of the First to Benefit From Trump’s Cuts to Environmental Review: a Nevada Gold Mine

By Wyatt Myskow
Water levels sit low in Lake Powell near Bullfrog, Utah, on Sept. 15. Negotiations to manage the shrinking reservoir and the rest of the Colorado River system may be more difficult without federal leadership. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Nominee for Top Federal Water Role Withdraws Amid Pushback from Some Colorado River States

By Alex Hager, KUNC
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Sen. Whitehouse Launches Investigation into Industry Groups’ Influence on Endangerment Finding Repeal

By Aidan Hughes
Cheryl Johnson’s Chicago nonprofit, People for Community Recovery, was part of a coalition that received a $2.8 million grant funded through the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act. The Trump administration canceled it this year after just $32,000 were disbursed. Credit: Zubaer Khan/Chicago Sun-Times

New Map Shows $29 Billion in Climate and Environment Grants Canceled or Frozen by Trump

By Dylan Baddour
Nonprofits working in environmental justice communities like this one, in Pueblo, Colorado, have filed a notice of appeal in federal court in a lawsuit they filed to secure grants provided through the Inflation Reduction Act that the Trump administration rescinded in early 2025. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Environmentalists and Local Governments Appeal Dismissal of Case Over Trump’s Cancellation of Justice Grants

By Charles Paullin
An aerial view of the Ocean City inlet and boardwalk in Maryland. Credit: Patrick Smith/Getty Images

Challenge to Maryland Offshore Wind Project Stokes Concerns Among Legal Scholars

By Aman Azhar
The construction site of a high-speed rail viaduct near Highway 43 south of Corcoran, Calif. Credit: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/Grist

Billions Spent, Miles To Go: The Story of California’s Failure To Build High-Speed Rail

By Benton Graham, Grist
An aerial view of an Amazon Web Services data center in Stone Ridge, Va. Credit: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

The AI Boom Is Coming for Pennsylvania. How Will Lawmakers Respond?

By Kyle Bagenstose
Tropical analysis meteorologist Aidan Mahoney works at his station at NOAA’s National Hurricane Center in Miami on May 30. Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

Can Bipartisan Support in Congress Save NOAA From White House Cuts?

By Marianne Lavelle

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