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Climate Law & Liability

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

If signed, the bill would make data centers release quarterly reports on water and electricity use.

By Rambo Talabong

A data center’s liquid cooling system. Credit: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Washington Post via Getty Images
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

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

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

Working from the bucket of a boom truck linemen finish up work on large transmission structures that are part of an Xcel Energy project just south of Brush, Colo., on Jan. 8, 2024. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

As Congress Takes a New Swing at Bipartisan Permitting Reform, Environmental Groups Are Calling Foul

By Aidan Hughes

Pamela McElwee speaks during the 11th session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Plenary in December 2024 in Windhoek, Namibia. Credit: Kiara Worth/Earth Negotiations Bulletin

An Energy Department Climate Change Report ‘Completely Ignored’ Adaptation, Rutgers Professor Says

By Anna Mattson

The Three Rivers Waterkeeper found tiny “nurdles” in the water and banks of Raccoon Creek in western Pennsylvania. Credit: Three Rivers Waterkeeper

Pennsylvania Plastics Pollution Settlement Could Set a National Precedent for Control of Pellets

By Jon Hurdle

A landscape in Zambia 12 weeks after Sino-Metals spilled toxic waste laced with heavy metals including lead, arsenic and uranium. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

Zambia Ordered a Mining Company to Pay Villagers After a Toxic Waste Spill. The Firm Made Them Sign Away Their Rights First

By Katie Surma

U.S. Steel’s mill in Gary, Ind. Credit: Mira Oberman/AFP via Getty Images

Residents Living in the Shadow of the Steel Industry Ask the EPA to Reconsider Delay of Hazardous Air Pollution Rule

By Kiley Bense

The Department of Energy’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Credit: J. David Ake/Getty Images

Dozens of Scientists Call DOE Climate Report ‘Fundamentally Incorrect’

By Jake Bolster

Charles Lee left the EPA after 26 years and has joined Howard University School of Law’s two-year-old Environmental and Climate Justice Center in Washington, D.C., as a visiting scholar. Credit: Darrow Montgomery/Inside Climate News

Leaving EPA Behind, Environmental Justice Pioneer Preaches Hope Amid Trump Cutbacks

By Marianne Lavelle

A street floods in Plainfield, N.J., as Gov. Phil Murphy declares a state of emergency during heavy rainfall on July 15. Credit: Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images

With New Jersey Still Reeling From Summer Storms, Fossil Fuel Interests Fight ‘Climate Superfund’ Bill

By Jon Hurdle

An officer of the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources takes part in an operation against Amazon deforestation at an illegal mining camp known in the Yanomami of Brazil on Feb. 24, 2023. Credit: Alan Chaves/AFP via Getty Images

How Trump’s Anti-Environment Crusade Enriches Drug Traffickers

By Katie Surma

The Des Moines River flows through downtown Ottumwa, Iowa. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Battle Over Polluted Water Beneath an Iowa Coal Ash Landfill

By Anika Jane Beamer

The border wall is seen in the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Credit: Steve Hillebrand/USFWS

Environmental Laws Waived to Build Border Wall in Texas Wildlife Refuge

By Martha Pskowski

The Colorado River flows near Parker, Ariz. The Colorado River Indian Tribes want to give the river the same legal rights as a person, taking millennia of cultural values and putting them into law. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

The Colorado River Is This Tribe’s ‘Lifeblood,’ Now They Want To Give It the Same Legal Rights as a Person

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Gov. Wes Moore speaks to a crowd of supporters at the Maryland Democratic Party annual gala in Baltimore June 12. Credit: Wesley Lapointe/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Maryland’s Governor and Legislature Just Got So-So Grades on Their Environmental Scorecards

By Aman Azhar

Jingjing Zhang meets with community members in Kalusale, Zambia. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

The Woman Holding Chinese Mining Giants Accountable

By Katie Surma

A female northern spotted owl catches a mouse on a stick held by a wildlife biologist on the Hoopa Valley Reservation in August 2024. Credit: The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Trump Administration Dismisses the Endangered Species List as ‘Hotel California.’ But There’s Far More to the Story

By Kiley Price

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