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Consider yourself warned. A coalition led by former Democratic Vice President Al Gore is using artificial intelligence (AI) and satellite systems to track pollution in local neighborhoods around the world while pinpointing the very houses and backyards it comes from.

Former Vice President Al Gore said global momentum behind renewable energy is strengthening but warned that American politics are being skewed by President Donald Trump’s opposition to climate initiatives, creating what he called a “distortion field.”

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) wrote to the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), demanding to know more information about AFPI’s alleged role in the EPA’s rescission of the Obama-era Endangerment Finding.

The City of West Hollywood lowered its rainbow flags to half-staff in memory of Charlie Kirk — nine years after it “banned” Donald Trump from speaking.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) unveiled its policy roadmap, which urges Congress to modernize the country’s outdated permitting system to help ensure low American energy costs.

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) said Wednesday that the Senate could subpoena California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to explain state and local failures during the Palisades Fire in January, which devastated northwest Los Angeles.

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins warned California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Sunday that the Trump administration intends to save several dams that the state intends to tear down.

Wildfires destroyed historic buildings in California this week as Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was out of the state on personal travel — the latest example of the governor being absent from his post during an emergency.

A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 on Tuesday that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin could, in fact, withhold $16 billion in so-called “gold bars” sent from the outgoing Biden administration to favored left-wing “green” organizations.

A South African environmental services company called Drizit, hired to help clean up the spill of toxic waste from a Chinese copper mine in Zambia in February, issued a statement on Friday that claimed the mine owners are concealing the full extent of the massive ecological damage from the incident.

EPA is protecting our air, land and water, and the safety of American workers while supporting a thriving economy. Our resolve is reflected in success stories that ripple across industries nationwide.

President Donald Trump may have chosen to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to a California wind project to punish Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) for signing a separate climate change deal with Denmark.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expanding a recall of certain brands of shrimp that were imported from Indonesia and may be contaminated with a radioactive isotope called Cesium-137 (Cs-137). While the recalled shrimp may not present an “acute

The Trump administration has ended $679 million in funding for 12 “doomed” offshore wind projects that Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy deemed a “wasteful” use of agency dollars.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum discusses President Trump’s ongoing projects to beautify the nation and the controversy surrounding an Arizona copper mine project on sacred land for Native Americans.

A report published by the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) on Monday found that China is burning record-high amounts of coal at its power plants this year, generating roughly 21 gigawatts of coal power in the first six months of 2025.

A towering wall of dust rolled through metro Phoenix on Monday in a blinding storm that left thousands without power in its wake.

California’s troubled high-speed rail project needs an additional $1 billion per year from the state legislature to survive, officials said Monday, after the withdrawal of $4 billion in funding by the Trump administration.

California’s high-speed rail line could connect rural Merced to Bakersfield by 2032, local authorities say, though it will operate at a massive loss.

American Petroleum Institute’s (API) Dustin Meyer sounded the alarm on a European Union (EU) directive that would impose “massive, mandatory, extraterritorial” regulations on American companies.

School districts throughout the United States are ditching electric school buses, manufactured by a Canadian company that has fallen into bankruptcy, for diesel school buses, citing the difficulty in getting electric buses repaired.

A federal court on Monday blocked the the transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to two international companies for the state’s Resolution Copper project. 

President Donald Trump’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in early August dismissed a case against a recycling company that Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) said was targeted by the Biden administration and local officials in the name of “equity” and “environmental justice.” Instead, Trump’s HUD said they will focus on “real concerns.”

California is struggling to approve permits even for “green” projects like solar and wind energy — and even under a formally “streamlined” process that was meant to accelerate projects that help fight climate change.

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the completion of their appointed rounds” goes the U.S. Postal Service creed – but not with electric vehicles, if some Republican lawmakers have their way.

Ella Emhoff, the stepdaughter of failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris, said she feels “disgust” by what she is seeing in the world, letting her followers on TikTok know that she is experiencing “a lot of climate anxiety” as well.

The Communist Party of China imposed a 75.8-percent tariff on Thursday on Canadian canola products, claiming that Canada was intentionally “dumping” underpriced canola seed into the Chinese market to hurt domestic farmers.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday announced the relaunch of the agency’s Guidance Portal, a website to allow Americans a one-stop shop for regulatory guidance documents as part of the Trump administration’s mission to increase transparency, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

The British government has urged people to “play their part” and delete old emails in a bid to lower internet server water usage amid drought conditions.

The U.S. embassy in Zambia has ordered all U.S. government personnel to avoid the area around the Chinese-owned mine near the northern city of Kitwe because “hazardous and carcinogenic substances” released during an accident six months ago may have polluted the atmosphere.

The Canyon Fire near Lake Piru in Ventura County, California, just north of Simi Valley and east of Santa Clarita, has grown to over 1,000 acres.

A federal judge has ordered a halt on any new construction at the migrant detention facility Alligator Alcatraz over environmental concerns.

A Brazilian hotel in downtown Belém recently went viral on social media after it “rebranded” for the upcoming COP30 climate alarmism summit and made its rooms 100 times more expensive – defying government efforts to solve the city’s exorbitant lodging prices ahead of the event, the outlet G1 reported on Thursday.

EPA Head Lee Zeldin rebuked a CNN host live on her own show for showing clips–unrelated to their conversation–of power plants blowing smoke.

Los Angeles County has almost no money for disaster response — despite the frequency of natural disasters in the most populous county in America, and despite the presence of a large and valuable property tax base.

A “toxic workplace culture” coupled with managerial “negligence” combined to deliver the deadly implosion of the Titan submersible, a damning report released Tuesday by the U.S. Coast Guard makes clear.