"Brazil proposes two-stage deal to expedite COP30 negotiations. Disagreements persist on finance and emissions cuts. Group of countries call for roadmap to ditch fossil fuels."
"The Trump administration’s expected rollback of an oil and gas drilling ban around New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon is pitting tribes and environmental groups against each other as they prepare for possible legal challenges."
"Brazil intended this year’s United Nations climate talks now underway in the Amazon rainforest, to be the capstone of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s effort to establish the country as a global environmental leader. Instead, Brazil’s own domestic environmental policy is in disarray, as the summit known as COP30 struggles to offer a counterpoint to the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to promote fossil fuels."
"The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it is redefining the scope of the nation’s bedrock clean water law to significantly limit the wetlands it covers, building on a Supreme Court decision two years ago that removed federal protections for vast areas."
"Countries are betting big on biofuels, but critics say it could deepen food insecurity and fuel new climate risks."
"Nearly half a century ago, the U.S. Department of Energy launched a clean energy experiment beneath the University of Minnesota with a simple goal: storing hot water for months at a time in an aquifer several hundred feet below ground."
"New York just slammed the brakes on rules that would’ve prohibited fossil fuels in new homes and businesses."
"A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year."
"Pennsylvania will no longer seek to be part of a regional climate agreement among states in the Northeast U.S."
"The Trump administration said Thursday it is rescinding federal rules that were aimed at protecting from future oil and gas leasing vast swaths of a petroleum reserve in Alaska that provide key habitat for migrating birds, caribou and other wildlife."
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