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Climate & Energy
Clean Energy, Not Drilling, Is the Real Answer to Britain's Gas Import Problem
Drilling more North Sea gas sounds like energy security. The numbers say clean energy would do far more, far faster, and without the lock-in.
Climate & Energy
Iran's Water Crisis: Where Climate Change, War, and Mismanagement Converge
Climate change, war, and decades of over-pumping have pushed Iran toward a water emergency with consequences that reach far beyond its borders.
Climate & Energy
Georgia Has Left Electric Ratepayers Without an Advocate for 18 Years
Georgia abolished its Consumer Utilities Counsel 18 years ago — and ratepayers have been paying the price through every rate case since.
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20 Mar 2026
China's Coal Shift Is Quietly Reshaping Global Methane Emissions
China's coal consolidation drive made mines safer and more efficient — but may have quietly made them far more dangerous for the climate.
20 Mar 2026
Britain Raids Its Climate Aid Budget to Pay for a Military Buildup
Britain is raiding its overseas aid budget to fund a Cold War-scale military buildup, and the climate finance system may not survive the precedent.
20 Mar 2026
A Senate Probe Exposes the Methane Accounting Gap Hiding in Plain Sight
A Senate investigation into the Permian Basin's methane gap reveals how satellite data is exposing decades of flawed emissions accounting.
20 Mar 2026
China's Nuclear Pledge and Ecological Code Signal a Strategic Energy Pivot
China joined a nuclear pledge, declared its energy strategy vindicated, and launched an ecological code — three moves that together signal a strategic realignment.
20 Mar 2026
How Middle East Conflict Exposes the Fossil Fuel Fault Lines Running Through Global Food
Every Gulf crisis is also a food crisis — and the fossil fuel wiring buried inside global agriculture is why that keeps being true.
18 Mar 2026
Chile's Lithium Sharing Deal Was Meant to Heal. It's Tearing Communities Apart.
A deal meant to give Chile's Indigenous communities a share of lithium wealth has instead split them along lines that money alone cannot repair.
18 Mar 2026
Corpus Christi's Shrinking Reservoirs Put America's Refinery Coast on a Countdown
Corpus Christi's reservoirs are dropping fast enough that emergency water cuts could hit the US Gulf Coast's refinery complex by May.
18 Mar 2026
How gas became the hidden hand setting electricity prices worldwide
Gas-fired plants set electricity prices for entire grids — and that single mechanism is why a crisis near Iran lands on household bills in Tokyo.
18 Mar 2026
The UN Plastics Treaty Is on Life Support. A New Roadmap Wants to Revive It.
The UN plastics treaty collapsed in Geneva. Now a new roadmap of informal talks through 2026 is trying to revive it, but delay has its own costs.
17 Mar 2026
How Interior's Mass Centralization Gutted the Agencies Guarding America's Public Lands
Interior has lost 11,000 staff and centralized thousands more under the Secretary's office. Former workers say the fallout is only beginning.
