"The largest solar and battery project in America broke ground this week, as Cypress Creek Renewables began construction of the Steel River Energy Center in Arkansas."

"A National Academy of Sciences report on extreme climate event attribution confronts political climate denialism with scientific evidence."

"Monitoring is expensive and labor intensive. But it helps public health officials stop outbreaks."

"Thousands of visitors were told to evacuate a remote Minnesota wilderness area accessible only by boat as wildfires send dangerously heavy smoke over the U.S. Midwest and Northeast this week."

"Last year, President Trump gathered with executives from the oil and gas industry at the White House to discuss a range of topics, including drilling and tariffs."

"A power auction conducted by a giant grid operator is expected to add $6.3 billion in additional charges to consumers and businesses because of electricity needs of data centers."

"For half a century, millions of workers have repeated a task across the deserts in northern China: inserting forearm-length sticks into shifting sand, ... The technique, known as “straw checkerboards,” is a simple yet widely used method to stabilize sand dunes against the wind and help plants take root by using water supplied through an irrigation system."

"Justice Elena Kagan told lawmakers she hadn’t read a chapter on climate science that drew objections from conservative attorneys general before writing the forward for a reference manual for federal judges."

"The Trump administration is moving to approve a controversial program in Alabama that could allow millions of tons of toxic coal ash to remain buried in place alongside the state’s rivers, even though much of that material is sitting in groundwater where it can leach into the environment."

"Trump administration policies that scaled back federal support for clean energy have led to the cancellation ​or delay of $83 billion in investment across hundreds of projects, according to a report ‌released on Tuesday by labor and environmental coalition BlueGreen Alliance."