On Friday, Amazon committed to donating more than $1 billion over the next five years to communities neighboring data centers. […]
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New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
“What have we been breathing in?” Million-dollar fines won’t end billionaires’ data center pollution, neighbors fear. Drone image showing DataOne’s […]
Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing polluters
The NAACP alleged that xAI and a subsidiary company built and operated 27 natural gas-fired turbines in Southaven, Mississippi, without […]
Solar power production undercut by coal pollution
Regional differences The researchers note that aerosols can also contribute to cloud formation, which also causes further losses. But the […]
Trump orders the military to make agreements with coal power plants
Today’s executive order takes a different route to propping up coal: artificially inflating demand. “The Secretary of War, in coordination […]
What’s next after the Trump administration revokes key finding on climate change?
Bad for Americans and bad for the planet The EPA is revoking the finding for legal, not scientific, reasons. Credit: […]
Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds
The Environmental Protection Agency has drastically pulled back on holding polluters accountable. Enforcement against polluters in the United States plunged […]
COVID-19 cleared the skies but also supercharged methane emissions
The remaining question, though, was where all this methane was coming from in the first place. Throughout the pandemic, there […]
Here we go again: Retiring coal plant forced to stay open by Trump Admin
On Tuesday, US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright issued a now familiar order: because of a supposed energy emergency, a […]
Big Tech may fall short of green energy targets due to proposed rule changes
“There’s going to be one price trend: that is you will see higher costs for certificates at low producing times […]