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In Arizona, Utilities and State Regulators Double Down on Fossil Fuels and Higher Costs Despite Residents’ Opposition

The Trump administration has terminated billions in clean-energy funding, while the state’s utilities commission is proposing to rescind energy-efficiency and renewables standards, as Arizona’s biggest utilities propose rate hikes.

By Wyatt Myskow

At the Tucson Convention Center in August 2025, demonstrators opposed "Project Blue," a massive data center installation proposed by Amazon Web Services. Data centers have also now become a flashpoint in Phoenix, the third largest data center market in the country. Across the state, ratepayers are linking data center development to higher electric bills. Credit: Wild Horizons/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
National Park Service Director Charles F. Sams III gives remarks at the 2022 National Christmas Tree Lighting on November 30 at Presidents Park in Washington, DC. Credit: National Park Service

The ‘Biggest Tragedy’ of Trump’s Gutting of the National Park Service

By Blaine Harden

‘Unbelievably Vulnerable’: The Climate Challenges Facing Mamdani’s New York City

By Lauren Dalban

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

Delegates rest outside of the assembly hall in Geneva, after talks aimed at striking a landmark treaty on plastic pollution ended with no consensus. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

Plastic Pollution Talks in Geneva End Without Treaty

By Bob Berwyn

In Mount Storm, West Virginia, turbines from the Mount Storm Wind Farm stand in the distance behind the Dominion Mount Storm coal power station, which last week was granted an exemption from new pollution rules by the Trump administration. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.

Dominion Among Utilities Allowed Exemption for Coal Emissions From Trump’s EPA

By Charles Paullin

Gas is burned from a flare stack at the Air Liquide gas plant in Pasadena, Texas. Credit: Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Congress Set to Vote on Repeal of Biden Administration Climate Regulations

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Pastor Timothy William stands outside his Shiloh home in Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

These Flooded Black Alabamians Say Biden, Buttigieg Failed Them. Now They Ask: Where Will Trump Stand?

By Lee Hedgepeth

The landing page for the “Environmental Justice” section of whitehouse.gov on Friday, Jan. 24.

As Trump Targets Biden’s Environmental Justice Initiatives, Activists Gear Up for Legal Fights

By Kristoffer Tigue, Keerti Gopal, Marianne Lavelle

Former President Joe Biden is given a ceremonial sash after singing proclamations creating the Chuckwalla National Monument and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument at the White House on Jan. 14. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Conservation Won Big Under Biden. Environmentalists and Tribal Leaders Fear Trump Will Undo Those Gains

By Wyatt Myskow

President Joe Biden speaks about his climate investments during a press conference at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on Sept. 14, 2021, in Arvada, Colo. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

‘We Needed More Time’: As Biden Leaves Office, His Climate Legacy Remains Incomplete

By Marianne Lavelle

People do chores near the Rancheria River, which runs adjacent to the Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia. The Swiss mining giant Glencore has filed multiple ISDS claims against Colombia related to its investment in the mine. Credit: Lis Mary Machado/Anadolu via Getty Images

Biden Administration Reaches Deal Limiting Controversial Protections for Multinational Corporations

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

USAID helps farmers in Villa de San Francisco, Francisco Morazán, Honduras, adopt climate-smart technologies. Credit: Andre Ancheta for USAID

Climate-Focused Foreign Aid Advances U.S. Interests Abroad, Outgoing USAID Official Says

By Marianne Lavelle

Emissions billow from two stacks at the power plant in the background while cows graze on grass in the foreground

Biden Sets Higher U.S. Goal Under the Climate Pact That Trump Aims to Abandon

By Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna

Indigenous federal employees perform a traditional dance before President Joe Biden's visit to the White House Tribal Nations Summit on Dec. 9 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Biden and Tribal Leaders Celebrate Four Years of Accomplishments on Behalf of Native Americans

By Noel Lyn Smith

President Joe Biden announces a seven billion dollar "Solar For All" program with the Environmental Protection Agency on April 22 at Prince William Forest Park in Triangle, Va. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Aspiring Applicants Worry EPA Environmental Justice Grant Funding Will Be Rescinded Before It’s Awarded

By Kristoffer Tigue, Dennis Pillion, Dylan Baddour, Marianne Lavelle

Workers place encapsulation material on solar panels at the Elin Energys solar panel manufacturing facility on April 25 in Brookshire, Texas. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Clean Energy Advocates and Businesses Wrestle With an Uncertain Future as Republicans Target IRA Funds

By Keaton Peters

An aerial view shows the long-depleted Colorado River as it flows between California and Arizona. An irrigation ditch (right) carries the river water toward Quechan tribal land on May 26, 2023 near Winterhaven, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Despite Biden Administration Proposals to Address Colorado River Shortages, a Solution Is Far Off

By Wyatt Myskow

Donald Trump speaks at Drake Enterprises, an auto parts manufacturer, during a campaign rally on Sept. 27, 2023 in Clinton Township, Mich. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Trump’s ‘EV Mandate’ Message May Have Helped Him Win Michigan

By Kristoffer Tigue

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