The EPA Wants to Roll Back Emissions Controls on Power Plants

The EPA Wants to Roll Back Emissions Controls on Power Plants
The US Environmental Protection Agency moved to roll back emissions standards for power plants, the second-largest source of CO2 emissions ...
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Want to Claim the Solar Tax Credit? Get Installing Now

Want to Claim the Solar Tax Credit? Get Installing Now
This story originally appeared Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the last two decades, homeowners have ...
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AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse

AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse
AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, research published Thursday in the ...
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Meta faces Democratic probe into plans to power a giant data center with gas

Meta faces Democratic probe into plans to power a giant data center with gas
Meta’s building a new AI data center so massive in Louisiana that the local utility company has plans to construct ...
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The EPA Is Giving Some Forever Chemicals a Pass

The EPA Is Giving Some Forever Chemicals a Pass
The EPA on Wednesday said it would change a rule intended to protect Americans from forever chemicals in their drinking ...
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DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs

DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs
AmeriCorps, the US federal agency that oversees volunteerism and service work, abruptly pulled teams of young people out of a ...
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Wildfires Are One of Hurricane Helene’s Lasting Legacies

Wildfires Are One of Hurricane Helene’s Lasting Legacies
Dozens of other fires broke out in Georgia and western North Carolina, which were both hard-hit by Hurricane Helene. In ...
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Metals Crucial to Clean Energy Are Getting Caught Up in the US–China Trade War

Metals Crucial to Clean Energy Are Getting Caught Up in the US–China Trade War
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the summer of 2023, Vasileios ...
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For-Profit Companies Can’t Easily Replace NOAA’s Weather-Forecasting Prowess

For-Profit Companies Can’t Easily Replace NOAA’s Weather-Forecasting Prowess
Could a private company create forecasts on its own without NOAA data? It would be difficult for one company to ...
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How to Get PFAS Out of Drinking Water—and Keep It Out

How to Get PFAS Out of Drinking Water—and Keep It Out
Stoiber and her colleagues at EWG keep an eye on the consumer-grade water filtration systems available in the US. The ...
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