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Half of Fossil Fuel Carbon Emissions in 2024 Came From 32 Companies

Latest Carbon Majors analysis finds global CO2 emissions are traceable to an increasingly concentrated set of producers, many of which are expanding fossil fuel output and blocking climate action. 

By Dana Drugmand

An aerial shot shows billowing white emissions from stacks in the large complex.
Transmission lines along Stan Roberts Sr. Avenue in Northeast El Paso, adjacent to the construction site of the Meta data center. The Franklin Mountains are visible in the background. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Meta Wants Data Center in Sunny El Paso to Rely on Natural Gas

By Martha Pskowski

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

How Does Nature Contribute to the Economy? These Environmental Accountants Are Trying to Find Out

By Kiley Price

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

A substation connects wind turbines to transmission lines near Pomeroy, Iowa. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Looking Ahead to a Deepening Affordability Crisis, an Election and the Threat of an AI Investment Bubble

By Dan Gearino

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

In Washngton state, power lines carry electricity near Diablo Dam and the North Cascades National Park. The Trump administration says there is an emergency in the Pacific Northwest because of a shortage of electricity. Credit: David McNew/Newsmakers

Trump’s Energy Secretary Orders a Washington State Coal Plant to Remain Open

By Blaine Harden

The construction site for Chinese battery giant CATL’s plant near Debrecen, Hungary, is seen on May 5, 2024. Credit: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images

China’s Clean Energy Investments Abroad Are a Boon for Climate, but Human Rights and the Environment Are a Different Story

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A view of Chevron’s El Segundo refinery in California. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Big Oil’s Climate Ads Have Propped Up Fake Promises and False Solutions for Past 25 Years, Report Finds

By Dana Drugmand

A view of the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Palo, Iowa. Credit: NextEra Energy

Google Data Centers Will Bring Nuclear Power Back To Tornado Country

By Anika Jane Beamer

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

Ford Mustang Mach-E electric cars are seen for sale at a dealership on June 24 in Austin, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

EV Sales Are in the Tank. So What Happens Next?

By Dan Gearino

A power substation is seen near Birmingham, Ala. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Regulators Approve Two-Year Electric Rate Freeze and Two Solar Projects for a Meta Inc. Data Center

By Dennis Pillion

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

Transmission lines stand above the entrance to the Loring Commerce Centre at the site of the former Loring Air Force Base. Credit: Derek Davis/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

Maine’s First Major Data Center Project Touts Green Innovation

By Ryan Krugman

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

Alabama Power got approval to purchase the 895-megawatt Lindsay Hill Generating Station near Billingsley, Ala. for $622 million earlier this year. Credit: Dennis Pillion/Inside Climate News

Alabama Power Seeks to Delay Rate Hike for New Gas Plant Amid Outcry

By Dennis Pillion

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