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New Analysis Warns Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Could Trigger Thousands of Oil Spills

Conservationists say increased drilling could threaten already endangered marine species with extinction.

By Teresa Tomassoni

In Huntington Beach, California, a bird perches on a contamination containment boom in October 2021 as workers cleanup the Talbert Marsh after a spill off the coast of Huntington Beach threatens wildlife. Credit: Mindy Schauer/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images
An aerial view shows cooling vent fans on the roof next to generators on the lower level of a Digital Realty data center in Ashburn, Virginia, in November 2025. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Data Centers in PJM Grid Can Rely Solely on Generators During the Cold, DOE Rules

By Charles Paullin

Scientists Push for More Ambitious Climate Targets

By Bob Berwyn

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin (C) and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought (L), the architects of the Trump administration's climate and environmental justice grant terminations, at a 911 ceremony in Arlington, Virginia. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Trump’s Grant Terminations Upheld by Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

By Lisa Sorg

Virginia's Democratic Attorney General Jay Jones listens to Gov. Abigail Spanberger's first State of the Commonwealth address on Monday, during which she endorsed the state's rejoining of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

Virginia Attorney General Takes Steps to Rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

By Charles Paullin

A federal judge on Friday issued a preliminary injunction, allowing work to begin again on wind turbines off the coast of Virginia. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Federal Court Allows Dominion Energy in Virginia to Continue Offshore Wind Project

By Charles Paullin

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

Line workers attend to distribution poles in Richmond, Va. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

Virginia Regulators Approve New Dominion Rates, Assign More Costs to Data Centers

By Charles Paullin

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

The shore of Mill Point Park is located blocks from City Hall in Hampton, Va. The city is building a sandy marsh over the rocks that currently line the shore, and experimenting with new types of protective sills to gently buffer incoming waves. Credit: Phred Dvorak/Inside Climate News

Can a Flood-Prone Coastal City Learn to Live With Water?

By Phred Dvorak

The construction of a data center in Loudoun County, Virginia. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

Virginia Regulators Weigh Expanded Use of Data Center’s Polluting Generators 

By Charles Paullin

A view of the formerly coal-fired Chesterfield Power Station, where the natural gas-fueled Chesterfield Energy Reliability Center would go. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

Virginia Regulators Approve First New Gas Plant Since Passage of Clean Economy Act

By Charles Paullin

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore speaks during the Chesapeake Executive Council meeting on Tuesday at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Credit: Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program

After Missing 2025 Goals, Chesapeake Bay Leaders Agree on Longer Timeline and Tribal Role in Cleanup

By Aman Azhar

Cabinets hold racks and active servers at the Digital Realty Innovation Lab data center on Nov. 12 in Ashburn, Va. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images

Members of America’s Largest Power Grid Can’t Agree on How to Power Data Centers

By Rambo Talabong

The Fluvanna County Planning Commission meets on Nov. 18 inside the Carysbrook Performing Arts Center in Fork Union, Va. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

County Planning Commission in Virginia Delays Vote Again on Proposed Gas Plant That Aims to Link to PJM Grid

By Charles Paullin

Local resident Bobby Amerson walks past sections of steel pipe to be used for the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Callaway, Va., on Aug. 30, 2022. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Gas Pipeline Proposals in Virginia Multiply Through the South—and Worry Community Activists

By Charles Paullin

The entrance to an xAI data center is seen under construction on April 25 in Memphis, Tenn. Credit: Brandon Dill/The Washington Post via Getty Images

‘It’s Not Too Late’: New Cornell Study Maps the Environmental Cost of AI and How Policy Could Limit the Damage

By Carl David Goette-Luciak

Democrat Abigail Spanberger speaks on Tuesday after being declared the winner of the Virginia gubernatorial race against Republican Winsome Earle-Sears. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

With a Lock on State Government Control, Virginia Democrats Now Face Difficult Decisions on Data Centers and Renewable Energy

By Charles Paullin

New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill (center-left) celebrates her election night win during a watch party at the Hilton East Brunswick Hotel on Tuesday. Credit: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

Green Groups’ Election Takeaway: Focus on Trump Energy Agenda Costs

By Marianne Lavelle

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