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The volunteer leader of the rebuilding effort for the city of Malibu, California, which was hit hard by the Palisades Fire in January, resigned in protest this week over the slow pace of permits to rebuild homes.

At least 72 people have been killed and more than 200 others were injured after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck the central Philippines on Tuesday night.

British primatologist Jane Goodall, who transformed the study of chimpanzees and became one of the world’s most prominent wildlife advocates, has died at the age of 91, her institute announced Wednesday.

The Los Angeles County supervisors blasted a $1.9 million report Tuesday on the reasons for the catastrophic failure of a local evacuation system, whose delays likely contributed to 18 deaths during wildfires in January.

Republican leaders in both chambers of Congress said that a Chinese government official’s opposition to the proposed repeal of a Biden-era regulation on power plants shows that China wants America to limit its domestic energy supply through self-imposed “red tape and burdensome regulations.”

Far-left President of Chile Gabriel Boric denied attacking President Donald Trump specifically on climate change.

An “after-action” report prepared for Los Angeles County found this week that the county’s alert and evacuation systems suffered from weaknesses that led to disaster in the Palisades and Eaton fires in January.

A solar energy plant in California that cost $2.2 billion to build will be shutting down after failing to meet expectations. 

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.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “The Brief,” E.U. Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero, and Clean Growth Wopke Hoekstra said that solar energy will eventually be one of or the cheapest energy options, but “We are late with tackling climate change,

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.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is completing a flip-flop on oil drilling, which he tried to stop but is now planning to expand in Kern County, thanks to the impending threat of skyrocketing gas prices in the state.

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.

Senators Rick Scott (R-FL) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) announced Monday that they are launching a Senate investigation into the Palisades Fire in January, and are demanding Gov. Gavin Newsom’s cooperation.

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.