Shell and Equinor Oil and Gas Production Is Blocked at Sites Off British Coast

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A court ruling requires the British government to consider the potential climate impact of the oil and gas produced in the North Sea. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/business/shell-equinor-oil-fields-britain.html

The Climate Migration Question: Rebuild or Relocate?

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment After a flood destroyed their town, Kentucky residents faced the agonizing choice of whether to stay or to relocate to new communities built on former strip mines. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/climate/the-climate-migration-question-rebuild-or-relocate.html

Transportation Secretary Seeks Rollback of Biden’s Fuel Economy Standards

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The order is the latest Trump administration effort against Biden-era initiatives that intended to promote electric vehicles and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/politics/trump-fuel-economy-standards-rollback.html

Doomsday Clock Moves One Second Closer to Catastrophe

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shifted the hands of the symbolic clock to 89 seconds to midnight, citing the threat of climate change, nuclear war and the misuse of artificial intelligence. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/doomsday-clock-2025.html

Kentucky’s Mountaintop Mines Are Turned Into Neighborhoods

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of flood survivors to unique higher ground. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/climate/kentuckys-strip-mines-get-turned-into-neighborhoods.html

Chevron Wants to Tap Into A.I. Boom by Selling Electricity to Data Centers

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The oil company plans to build natural gas power plants that will be directly connected to data centers used by technology companies for artificial intelligence and other services. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/business/energy-environment/chevron-power-plant-ai.html

Could Trump Use the ‘God Squad’ to Override Environmental Law?

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The president wants to convene the rarely used panel, which has the power to carve out exemptions to the Endangered Species Act. Here’s what to know. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/climate/trump-endangered-species-god-squad.html

Oil Companies Embrace Trump, but Not ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Oil and gas executives welcomed President Trump’s early moves on energy policy, but many said they did not plan to increase production unless prices rose significantly. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/business/energy-environment/oil-trump-drill-baby-drill.html

A $35 Billion Loan Project, Led by World Bank, Aims to Expand Electricity in Africa

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Some $35 billion is aimed at building small solar sites in rural areas and other improvements. The World Bank chief called the project “foundational to everything.” Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/climate/africa-world-bank-solar-electricity.html

E.V. Owners Don’t Pay Gas Taxes. So, Many States Are Charging Them Fees.

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment States are using higher registration fees for electric cars to make up for declining fuel taxes, but some are punitive, environmentalists say. A federal tax could be coming. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/business/ev-fees-gas-tax.html

Trump Seeks to Assert More Control Over California’s Water

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The president, who has assailed California’s leaders over wildfires, issued the directive in an executive order that was dated Friday but released on Sunday. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/us/politics/trump-federal-government-california-water.html

Trump Stocks E.P.A. With Oil, Gas and Chemical Lobbyists

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Top political appointees are already at the E.P.A. preparing to erase the agency’s climate rules and pollution controls. Many of them have tried it before. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/climate/epa-staff-oil-gas-chemical-industry-lobbyists.html

In Visit to Pacific Palisades, Trump Praises Firefighters and Blames Democratic Officials

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment After a tour of areas damaged by the California wildfires, the president sparred with local leaders and blamed them for a wide variety of issues affecting the disaster response. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/us/politics/tour-pacific-palisades-wildfire-damage.html

What Is the Future of the Paris Agreement?

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment On President Trump’s first day in office, he pulled out of the Paris Agreement, a pact among nearly all nations to fight climate change. Reporting from Davos, Switzerland, David Gelles, a climate journalist for The New York Times, explains what this decision means for the rest […]

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