Energy
European Union Ending Dependence on Russian Energy
BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 7, 2025 (ENS) – The European Union will end its use of Russian energy by stopping the import of Russian gas and oil and phasing out Russian […]
renewable energy
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NEW YORK: Invests $1 Billion in Climate Action, Nuclear Power
ALBANY, New York, March 18, 2025 (ENS) – It was more than two months ago, on January 14, during the last week of President Joe Biden’s administration, when New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans to invest more than US$1 billion to address the climate crisis and achieve a more sustainable and affordable future as part of her 2025 State of the State address. […]
Gov/Politics
Trump EPA Chief Zeldin Brags: ‘EPA Ends the ‘Green New Scam’
WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2025 – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has announced 31 actions the agency has taken to deregulate the American system of environmental protections across the country. Zeldin says he took these actions “to advance President Trump’s Day One executive orders and power the Great American Comeback.” […]
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UN Climate Summit Opens With US$400M for Loss and Damage Fund
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, November 30, 2023 (ENS) – “This year’s climate conference comes as the crisis enters a new phase – and shows its full force, harming billions of people, and costing trillions,” UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell declared in a video message to the world Wednesday on the eve of the UN climate summit COP28. He detailed progress and setbacks in the year since COP27 in Egypt, and set out expectations for COP28, which opened today and runs through December 12 in the gleaming, high-rise city of Dubai. […]
Air/Climate
UN Chief Excludes World’s Top Polluters from Climate Summit
NEW YORK, New York, September 22, 2023 (ENS) – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres aimed a message at the world’s largest polluters Wednesday when he excluded them from his Climate Ambition Summit that took place in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. His message – you are not taking the climate threat seriously enough. […]
Energy
Renewables Share of U.S. Generating Capacity Sets Records
“The mix of solar, wind and other renewables is now comfortably out-producing both coal and nuclear power,” concludes Ken Bossong, executive director of the nonprofit Sun Day Campaign’s from his office in Takoma Park, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC. Bossong, a veteran renewable energy campaigner… […]
Land Use/Forests
New UNESCO Biosphere Reserves Protect Forests, Water, Wildlife
PARIS, France, June 16, 2023 (ENS) – UNESCO has approved the designation of 10 new biosphere reserves in nine countries, and one transboundary biosphere reserve that stretches across the border between two countries. […]
Business
Biden Budgets $50M to Develop Floating Offshore Wind Industry
WASHINGTON, DC, September 16, 2022 (ENS) – The Biden Administration is launching a fleet of coordinated actions to develop floating offshore wind platforms, an emerging clean energy technology that will help the United States lead on offshore wind. Called the “Floating Offshore Wind Shot,” the new program will capture this potential to power millions of homes and businesses… […]
Energy
Global Net Zero Carbon Energy by 2050 Possible, Profitable
OXFORD, UK, September 13, 2022 (ENS) – Transitioning to a decarbonized energy system by around 2050 is expected to save the world at least US$12 trillion (£10.4 trillion), compared to continuing the current levels of fossil fuel use, according to a peer-reviewed study by Oxford University researchers, published in the journal “Joule” today. […]
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MARYLAND: Ratepayers Subsidize Polluting Energy at Top Prices
WASHINGTON, DC, February 23, 2022 (ENS) – Maryland’s clean energy program has major components that are both environmentally counterproductive and excessively costly to ratepayers, finds a report released this week […]
Gov/Politics
Green Values Shape Germany’s 2022 Government
BERLIN, Germany, January 8, 2022 (ENS) – In Germany’s September 2021 federal election, voters supported the Greens at historic levels, and Germany became the sixth and largest European Union Member State to have Green Party members in government, joining Austria, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, and Luxembourg. […]
Energy
UN Climate Week Yields Energy Uplift for a Billion People
NEW YORK, New York, September 26, 2021 (ENS) – Commitments of US$400 billion in new finance and investment to increase renewables and access to electricity and clean cooking techniques were announced Thursday at a critical UN energy summit during Climate Week. […]
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CALIFORNIA: Wind Farms Off U.S. Pacific Coast Poised for Permitting
SACRAMENTO, California, May 26, 2021 (ENS) – The federal departments of the Interior and Defense and the State of California have agreed to accelerate wind energy development offshore the central […]
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ILLINOIS: Lawmakers Consider Bill to Phase Out Coal, Natural Gas
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, May 4, 2021 (ENS) – The Consumers and Climate First Act was introduced in the Illinois General Assembly last week to provide a path for Illinois to help […]
Latest News
President Biden: It’s Time to Act on ‘Climate Crisis’
WASHINGTON, DC, January 28, 2021 (ENS) – “Today is Climate Day at the White House, which means that today is Jobs Day at the White House,” President Joe Biden told reporters Wednesday morning. “We’re talking about American innovation, American products, American labor. And we’re talking about the health of our families and cleaner water, cleaner air, and cleaner communities. […]
Air/Climate
Trump vs Biden: Environment in the Final Debate
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, October 23, 2020 (ENS) – Republican President Donald Trump and his challenger in the November 3 election former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, faced off in their second and final debate Thursday night. They disagreed on everything – especially climate change. […]