"With the state committed to decarbonizing its electricity supply by 2045, Farmington’s coal-fired power plant and mine are set to shut down. Faced with the loss of their largest employer, city leaders are considering whether to get behind an uncertain carbon-capture technology, or turn to renewables and the tourist economy."

"The most effective way to fight global warming is to plant lots of trees, a study says. A trillion of them, maybe more."

Chubb Ltd., the nation’s largest commercial insurance company, announced it will move away from insuring and investing in coal. It becomes the first major U.S. insurance company to take such action, joining more than a dozen European and Australian insurers that have already adopted similar policies."

"In the 22 months since Hurricane Harvey struck the Texas coast, scientists have uncovered a variety of lessons about climate change. One takeaway is the phenomenon known as "compound flooding," the idea that disasters can be influenced by more than one source of water at the same time."

"The consulting firm Moody’s Analytics says climate change could inflict $69 trillion in damage on the global economy by the year 2100, assuming that warming hits the two-degree Celsius threshold widely seen as the limit to stem its most dire effects."

"Last week's record breaking heatwave across much of Europe was made "at least five times" more likely to happen by climate change, say scientists."

"Last month, the Trump administration took its most significant action to date in regulating power plants... There is an issue, though: Not every state is going to see a reduction in emissions."

"America's liquefied natural gas boom has a climate change problem, according to a report released on Monday."

"One of the nation’s largest coal producers with mines in Eastern Kentucky filed for bankruptcy protection Monday, making it the second large coal company to do so in the past two weeks."

"In the early months of the Trump administration, automakers pleaded for — and appeared set to receive — some relief from fuel economy standards that they said were too difficult to meet. But newly released government emails show how a coalition of groups that reject established climate science quickly muscled into the picture, urging the administration to go much further and roll back the rules entirely and characterizing the automakers as their opponents in achieving that goal."