Energy & Fuel

Electric Rates Jump After Trump Rejects Disaster Aid For Michigan Utilities

"A recent decision by President Donald Trump to deny disaster aid to two electric utilities in rural northern Michigan could cost residents tens of millions of dollars."

Source: E&E News, 12/01/2025

Electricity Prices Jump After Trump Rejects Disaster Aid For Mich. Utilities

"A recent decision by President Donald Trump to deny disaster aid to electric utilities in rural northern Michigan could cost residents tens of millions of dollars."

Source: E&E News, 11/26/2025

Tracking Down Orphaned, Possibly Leaking, Oil And Gas Wells In The Parks

"An unknown number of abandoned oil and gas wells dot the National Park System, but the one at Cuyahoga Valley National Park revealed itself with a whistling plume of colorless, odorless, and potentially lethal, methane gas."

Source: National Parks Traveler, 11/25/2025

Global Effort to Curb Emissions of a Climate Pollutant Falls Short, UN Says

"Despite the efforts of more than half of all countries worldwide to curb a key climate super-pollutant, a report released this week by the United Nations Environment Programme at the U.N. climate summit shows that global methane emissions continue to climb at a troubling pace."

Source: Inside Climate News, 11/24/2025

"Trump’s Energy Department Revamp Nixes Clean-Energy Offices"

"The Trump administration is eliminating Energy Department offices focused on clean energy and renewables and, instead, creating units dedicated to hydrocarbons and fusion energy."

Source: Bloomberg, 11/24/2025

"Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling"

"The plan from the Interior Department is one of the president’s most significant steps yet to increase domestic fossil fuel production."

"The Trump administration on Thursday announced a plan to allow new oil and gas drilling across nearly 1.3 billion acres of U.S. coastal waters, including a remote region off Alaska in the northern Arctic where drilling has never before taken place.

The plan is one of President Trump’s most significant steps yet to increase the production of fossil fuels, the burning of which is dangerously heating the planet.

Source: NYTimes, 11/24/2025

"How China Silences Environmental Reporters Beyond Its Borders"

"Journalists who report on the harms caused by China’s overseas infrastructure buildout in Africa face intimidation, surveillance and police pressure."

Source: Inside Climate News, 11/24/2025

"Oil Producers, but Maybe Not the Planet, Get a Win as Climate Talks End"

"Global climate negotiations ended on Saturday in Brazil with a watered-down resolution that made no direct mention of fossil fuels, the main driver of global warming."

Source: NYTimes, 11/24/2025

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