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Month: September 2025

  • FILE - A tourist uses a fan to shade her face from the sun while waiting to watch the Changing of the Guard ceremony outside Buckingham Palace, during hot weather in London, July 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

    Guardian

    Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for first time

    Study shows how individual fossil fuel companies are making previously impossible heatwaves happen and could have to pay compensation

    Damian Carrington · September 11, 2025

  • A solar array built by BoxPower is charging batteries and keeping five PG&E customers supplied with electricity at a remote grid project in Briceburg, California. (BoxPower)

    Canary Media

    Can utilities replace power lines with solar and batteries in remote areas?

    Expanding the grid to reach far-flung customers can be a costly fire hazard. So utilities like PG&E are testing out microgrids using solar, batteries, and generators.

    Jeff St. John · September 10, 2025

  • Shown is the Eddystone Generating Station in Eddystone, Pa., Monday, June 2, 2025.

    Grist

    Nobody wants this gas plant. Trump is forcing it to stay open.

    The Department of Energy is citing Trump's declaration of an "energy emergency" and voracious data centers in its decision to keep the plant outside of Philadelphia running.

    Rebecca Egan McCarthy · September 8, 2025

  • PRODUCTION - 24 July 2025, Saxony, Chemnitz: Drinking water runs into a glass in a kitchen in Chemnitz. The energy supplier Eins operates the city's drinking water network, which is around 1500 kilometers long.

    Wired

    It’s possible to remove the forever chemicals in drinking water. Will it happen?

    New research shows that filtration systems that remove PFAS can also get rid of other harmful substances. Whether they’ll actually be introduced is a different matter entirely.

    Molly Taft · September 7, 2025

  • Adam Met of AJR performs at Madison Square Garden on Friday, July 26, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)

    Inside Climate News

    How a rock band bassist is remixing climate activism

    Adam Met of the indie-rock band AJR thinks fan-building strategies can amplify the climate movement’s reach and impact.

    Ryan Krugman · September 6, 2025

  • An illustration in black, white, tan, and red, of a person holding a clipboard and a demolished neighborhood.

    Grist

    Disasters destroyed their homes. Then the real estate ‘vultures’ swooped in.

    “We buy homes” companies are procuring disaster-damaged properties for cheap. Survivors say they're taking advantage of tragedy.

    Sophie Hurwitz · September 5, 2025

  • A wind turbine sticking out of the ocean

    Mother Jones

    Has Trump ended Staten Island’s wind power dreams?

    The GOP-leaning borough is just one community hoping courts roll back the administration’s assault on green energy.

    Artis Curiskis · September 4, 2025

  • Protesters hold signs during a national day of action against the Trump administration's firing of National Park Service employees at Yosemite National Park, Calif., Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

    Guardian

    Hundreds of staff at California national parks to unionize amid Trump turmoil

    More than 97% at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon parks voted to unionize as president enacts major cuts

    Dani Anguiano · September 4, 2025

  • An image of the book "Cloud Warriors" next to an image of a white man with brown-grey hair.

    Mother Jones

    Hurricane season begins with Trump gutting the “gold standard” weather services that save lives

    A conversation with Thomas E. Weber, the author of “Cloud Warriors.”

    Laura C. Morel · September 2, 2025

  • A multiple exposure photo of Energy Secretary Chris Wright taken at a visit to the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory campus in Golden, Colorado, on April 3.

    Mother Jones

    Why the US government is trying to revive the climate change ‘debate’

    The Department of Energy is calling for "honest dialogue." It looks a lot like a playbook from the past.

    Kate Yoder · September 1, 2025

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