Scientists working for the oil giant Exxon in the 1970s and 1980s estimated temperature increases with remarkable accuracy. Those findings could now be used as evidence in climate litigation...
Though renewable energy surpassed coal generation for the first time in 60 years, causing U.S. power emissions to decline, emissions from buildings and transportation went up in 2022
A slow economy, clean energy spending, electric vehicles and heat pumps could offset coal combustion to level carbon emissions
Increasing demand for natural gas and oil has offset emissions reductions associated with coal and pushed U.S. energy emissions higher for a second consecutive year
Wind, solar and hydropower will generate more than 20 percent of the power supply
The effects of climate change in the U.S. are steadily worsening and disproportionately affect the most vulnerable residents, a draft report of the next National Climate Assessment finds...
The large utility PacifiCorp is studying the viability of turning five fossil-fuel plants into nuclear-energy-and-storage facilities
Emissions associated with energy use are on track to increase by only 1 percent this year because of a boom in wind and solar power
Emissions models can understate the difficulty of rapidly reducing carbon dioxide this decade
The Senate’s passage of a monumental climate bill comes after decades of legislative defeats, but it is still an early step in drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions
The surprise climate bill’s electricity provisions would help the U.S. surge toward its emissions reduction goals
A surprise breakthrough on climate and energy legislation revives President Biden's environmental commitments by outlining large emissions reductions
Senator Joe Manchin has said he will not support climate provisions in the major spending bill before Congress just as the country faces heat waves, drought and floods exacerbated by rising temperatures...
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling and legislative hurdles will make it difficult to reach President Biden’s pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
The agency can still impose stronger limits on other air pollutants that coal plants produce, which could also reduce greenhouse gas emissions
The International Energy Agency projects that spending on renewables in 2022 will exceed the record $440 billion invested last year
The need to use coal to boost power supplies illustrates the challenge of quickly increasing renewable energy to avoid bigger climate impacts
Drivers tallied 753 billion miles in the first three months of the year, the highest total on record
Earlier snowmelt can leave less water available to generate power during the height of summer
Governor Tom Wolf announced last week that his administration had finalized a regulation to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
