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

The Green River flows into the Fontenelle Reservoir on May 28 near La Barge, Wyo. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

Momentum Slows for Measuring Water Lost in Wyoming’s Portion of the Colorado River

By Jake Bolster

Nikki Gerber, owner of Moondoggie Liveree in Adams County, Ohio, is campaigning against a propose data center because of concerns about effects on air, water and biodiversity. Credit: Dan Gearino/Inside Climate News

Inside Ohio’s Revolt Against Data Centers

By Dan Gearino

As mayor of Corpus Christi, Joe McComb championed plans to build a desalination plant. But later city leaders called the project off. "We laid a golden egg in their lap," McComb said. "They took off in an inexplicable direction.” Credit: Jon Shapley/Inside Climate News

How a Bid to Beat Drought Drove Corpus Christi to the Brink of Disaster

By Dylan Baddour, Neena Satija

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins signs the cast of Finley Swartz at a Maine fairgrounds. Swartz is holding a Susan Collins sign.

Unpacking the Environmental Issues in Susan Collins’ Tough Race in Maine

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Investment firm BlackRock’s office in San Francisco. Credit: Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images

SEC Issues Warning to Investment Firms That Challenged ExxonMobil

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Errol Peart with DigiPowerX speaks with community members about the company's data center expansion project in Columbiana, Ala., in January. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Sets Stricter Data Center Rules. But There’s a Loophole.

By Dennis Pillion

U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) walks on stage at the 2026 Republican National Convention on Sept. 10 in Dallas. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Development Becomes a Flashpoint in a Key New York House Race

By Leana Carbonez

The headquarters of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

SEC Move Would Make it Harder for Shareholders to Push Companies on Climate Action

By Dimuthu Attanayake

An excavator plows through land during construction for a section of the border wall on Aug. 14 in Big Bend National Park. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Federal Judge Slams the Brakes on Big Bend Border Wall Construction

By Martha Pskowski

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), joined by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), announces the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act during a press conference on Wednesday. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images

Long-Awaited Senate Deal to Speed Permitting Faces Familiar Hurdles

By Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino

The EPA finalized its repeal of most greenhouse gas emissions standards for coal- and natural gas-fired power plants in September. Credit: Jon Cherry/Getty Images

21 States Sue EPA to Reinstate Climate Pollution Rules for Power Plants

By Lisa Sorg

Vessels navigate the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Bandar Abbas, Iran, on Sept. 5. Credit: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images

As Negotiators Struggle to Advance a Plastics Treaty, Iran War Underscores the Urgency

By Liza Gross

A woman stands on a pier jutting into the Chesapeake Bay near Elktonia Beach in Annapolis, Md., on May 23, 2023. Credit: Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Chesapeake Bay Restoration Obstructed by Federal Policy Shift, Tribal Withdrawal

By Aman Azhar

Dan Jørgensen, European Commissioner for Energy and Housing, and Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, called for a temporary pause in a part of the European Union’s methane regulation related to oil and gas imports at a meeting of European energy ministers in Dublin on Tuesday. Credit: European Union

EU Weighs Delaying Methane Rules as Energy Prices Rise

By Phil McKenna

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in Austin Texas, May 2026. Credit: Jay Janner/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images

Alito’s Recusal From Climate Case: Too Little, Too Late?

By Marianne Lavelle

Cars move through the assembly line at a BMW manufacturing plant in Greer, S.C. Credit: Sven Hoppe/dpa via Getty Images

Trump Slashes Fuel-Economy Standards in Blow to Climate, Health, EV Market

By Dennis Pillion

Katie Fite, public lands director for WildLands Defense, walks with her dogs near a lithium project in the McDermitt Caldera area of Oregon on May 4, 2025. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

The Trump Administration’s Critical Minerals Agenda Comes for America’s ‘Forgotten Wildlife Corridor’

By Wyatt Myskow, Carla Samon Ros, Johanna Hansel

An employee of the German Climate Computing Center stands next to a supercomputer installed at the Hamburg center in 2016. Credit: Morris MacMatzen/Getty Images

Why Germany Is Building an Ark for U.S. Climate Data

By Christian Schwägerl, Yale Environment 360

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