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The political dramas and policy choices that are shaping the global response to the existential threat of climate change.

As EPA Stalls, States Are Left to Handle Solar Panel Waste

A federal plan to manage the coming “solar waste tsunami” of retired panels has missed its start date, leaving states and the solar industry to patch together their own rules for retiring the panels. Fifteen states have no rules at all.

By Rambo Talabong

 Workers remove solar panels from an industrial building. Credit: Waltraud Grubitzsch/picture alliance via Getty Images
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) speaks during a press conference with other House Republicans on Oct. 15 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images

Use of Congressional Review Act on BLM Plans Could Impact State Plans Under Other Agencies

By Sarah Mattalian
Eva Lighthiser (center), lead plaintiff in the Lighthiser v. Trump case, walks with attorney Mat dos Santos as they arrive at the Russell Smith Courthouse in Missoula, Montana, on Sept. 16. Credit: Issam Ahmed/AFP via Getty Images

Montana Court Dismisses Youth-led Lawsuit Challenging Trump Executive Orders Boosting Fossil Fuels

By Dana Drugmand
People attend the funeral of Efraín Fueres. Fueres, 46, was gunned down last month in Cotacachi, Ecuador, where he was marching in protest of high costs of living and government crackdowns on Indigenous and environmental activists. Credit: La Raíz

The Death Toll Is Rising from Ecuador’s Crackdown on Protesters

By Katie Surma
Lobby Day participants gather in the state capitol rotunda for the “People over Polluters” rally in the Illinois Capitol Building rotunda on Wednesday. Credit: Andrew Montequin/Inside Climate News

Illinois Residents Urge Lawmakers to Act on Transit, Energy Bills

By Andrew Montequin
From left: Reem Alabali Radovan, Lars Klingbeil and Kristalina Georgiewa sign an agreement for development cooperation at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images

Task Force Urges World Bank and International Monetary Fund to Prioritize Climate, Restructure Lending Policies

By Martha Pskowski, Aman Azhar
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a press conference at her Manhattan office on Feb. 20 in New York City. Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Federal Actions Make New York’s Energy Future More Uncertain

By Lauren Dalban
Lisa Garcia served as the Environmental Protection Agency's Region 2 administrator during the Biden administration. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call

Former EPA Region 2 Administrator Lisa Garcia Considers Environmental Justice With Trump in Power

By Anna Mattson
In Stone Ridge, Virginia, an Amazon Web Services data center in July 2024. Virginia is a PJM state, and Northern Virginia is the largest data center market in the world. Credit: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

PJM Pursues Rule Change to Meet Data Center Surge. Critics Fear Gas Suppliers Could Benefit.

By Rambo Talabong
Air pollution pours from the Olin Mathieson Chemical Plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in 1972, before many federal regulations of such emissions were implemented. Credit: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

EPA’s ‘Comeback’ a Sham Fueled by Trump’s Authoritarian Power Grab, Critics Charge

By Liza Gross
The photo shows the bay around Oxford

Federal Shutdown Hampers Chesapeake Bay Agreement Talks

By Aman Azhar

The Trump Administration Is Cutting Billions in Clean Energy Investments—But the Savings Are Overstated

By Aidan Hughes, Kiley Bense, Peter Aldhous
In Houston, a transmission tower in July, as ERCOT, the state's power grid, urged customers to preserve electricity. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Texas Grid Operators and Regulators Iron Out New Rules for Data Centers

By Arcelia Martin
The United States Capitol building in Washington D.C., on Sept. 24, 2025. Credit: Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu via Getty Images

Senate Nixes Management Plans for Public Lands, Expanding Access for Fossil Fuels

By Nicholas Kusnetz
In Niagara Falls, Ontario, Beluga whales at Marineland in July. Credit: Tara Walton/Toronto Star via Getty Images

Shuttered Canadian Marine Park Warns It May Euthanize 30 Beluga Whales, Prompting a Global Outcry

By Teresa Tomassoni
Bessemer City Council members listen as residents express their concerns about a proposed hyperscale data center during a July meeting. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Despite Stiff Opposition, an Alabama City Changes Its Laws to Accommodate Data Centers

By Lanier Isom
Linda Kling in front of her damaged mobile home in the wake of Hurricane Milton on Oct. 10, 2024, in Bradenton, Fla. Credit: Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post via Getty Images

These Florida Communities Wanted to Be More Sustainable and Resilient. A New State Law Blocks Their Efforts.

By Amy Green
White plumes of smoke billow above U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works in Clairton, Pa. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

EPA Drops Planned Delay in Compliance With Fenceline Monitoring at Coke Plants

By Jon Hurdle
National Guard soldiers search for people stranded by flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Sept. 27, 2024, in Steinhatchee, Fla. Credit: Sean Rayford/Getty Images

Natural Disasters Are a Rising Burden for the National Guard

By Marianne Lavelle

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