"How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change" [1]
"Six years after the financial industry pledged to use trillions to fight climate change and reshape finance, its efforts have largely collapsed."

"Six years after the financial industry pledged to use trillions to fight climate change and reshape finance, its efforts have largely collapsed."
"The Energy Department is planning to prop up old and shuttered coal plants using more than half a billion dollars that Congress originally set aside to advance carbon capture technologies and improve energy resiliency and environmental protection in rural areas."
"A federal judge issued a temporary injunction, allowing the developer of Empire Wind, an offshore wind project off the coast of Long Island, to resume construction after the Trump administration suspended work there in late December."
"As electricity prices climb, an unusual disconnect is emerging between what regular people pay — and what data centers pay."
"The Trump administration slashed pipeline safety enforcement in 2025, bringing about half the average number of cases as in previous years."
"Wyoming is poised to become an artificial-intelligence powerhouse after Laramie County commissioners last week unanimously voted to move forward with the construction of a 1.8 gigawatt data center designed to eventually scale up to 10 gigawatts, which would be the largest single AI campus in the U.S. "
"Decades of water depletion, dam building and repression of scientists and environmentalists have driven Iran toward ecological crises that are fueling protests rocking the country."
"Beneath an eight-lane expressway, Nigerian men stand waist-deep in the Lagos Lagoon, lowering buckets into murky water. Each load brings up sand, reshaping the coastline of Africa’s largest city and driving away fish and livelihoods for some of its poorest people."
"Nearly one-quarter of the associate justice’s $1 million in individual stock holdings are in fossil fuel companies."
"The Trump administration issued a proposal Tuesday that would clamp down on state water quality reviews and veto authority under the Clean Water Act."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-wall-street-turned-its-back-climate-change
[2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change
[3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/business
[4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy
[5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics
[6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/infrastructure
[7] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution
[8] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/technology
[9] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81
[10] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national
[11] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international
[12] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/climate/how-wall-street-turned-its-back-on-climate-change.html
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-admin-redirects-carbon-capture-funds-prop-old-coal-plants
[14] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics
[15] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health
[16] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws
[17] https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-admin-redirects-carbon-capture-funds-to-prop-up-old-coal-plants/
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/new-york-offshore-wind-project-allowed-restart-construction-now
[19] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water
[20] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/northeast
[21] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15012026/new-york-offshore-empire-wind-project-restarts/
[22] https://www.sej.org/headlines/why-your-power-bill-spiking-faster-nearby-data-center-s
[23] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/consumer
[24] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/people-population
[25] https://wapo.st/459vHyn
[26] https://www.sej.org/headlines/pipeline-safety-enforcement-cut-half-trump-s-first-year
[27] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster
[28] https://www.eenews.net/articles/pipeline-safety-enforcement-cut-in-half-in-trumps-first-year/
[29] https://www.sej.org/headlines/wyoming-county-approves-what-could-become-largest-data-center-us
[30] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/cities-towns
[31] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/mountain-west
[32] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14012026/wyoming-county-approves-ai-data-center/
[33] https://www.sej.org/headlines/iran-s-regime-has-survived-war-environmental-crises-may-bring-it-down
[34] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/agriculture
[35] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government
[36] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/land
[37] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/middle-east
[38] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14012026/iran-environmental-crisis-water-shortage-protests/
[39] https://www.sej.org/headlines/megacity-lagos-reshapes-its-coast-dredging-and-puts-environment-risk
[40] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-justice
[41] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/africa
[42] https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-lagos-sand-dredging-development-fishing-environment-b82a1f424f494431122ef4f64d6918dd
[43] https://www.sej.org/headlines/alito-s-recusal-oil-case-renews-questions-about-justice-s-investments
[44] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13012026/supreme-court-justice-samuel-alito-oil-investments-recusal/
[45] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-plans-curb-states-clean-water-act-permitting-power
[46] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/transportation
[47] https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-plans-to-curb-states-clean-water-act-permitting-power/
[48] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/infrastructure?page=3
[49] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/infrastructure?page=1
[50] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/infrastructure?page=2
[51] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/infrastructure?page=5
[52] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/infrastructure?page=6
[53] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/infrastructure?page=7
[54] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/infrastructure?page=8
[55] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/infrastructure?page=181