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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) tried to blame President Donald Trump for the spread of wildfires across the state on Wednesday, claiming National Guard soldiers had been pulled from firefighting to stop riots.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to help prevent and mitigate wildfires through better forest management, and through improving cooperation between relevant government departments.

President Donald Trump has signed legislation to reverse a radical California policy that would phase out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda has raised concerns about the environmental benefits of battery electric vehicles (EVs), suggesting that hybrids offer a more practical path to reducing carbon emissions in certain regions. He argues that Toyota’s 27 million hybrid vehicles have the same carbon footprint as only nine million when the entire lifecycle of emissions is taken into account.

Americans are not as interested in purchasing electric vehicles (EVs) as they once were, according to an AAA poll.

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy released his report Wednesday into California’s troubled high-speed rail project, concluding that it was a waste of money and presented “no viable way forward” to completion.

Musk’s turn against Trump triggers a $180 billion drop in the company’s market value.

The famed eaglet Sunny, one of Jackie and Shadow’s offspring, took her first flight on Monday, leaving her sister Gizmo behind in the nest.

The head of a pro-American energy watchdog group says his investigation into several of former President Joe Biden’s climate-related executive actions uncovered “criminal” and “evil” evidence that members of the White House acted without presidential authorization while he was in mental decline.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) wants Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer project in Memphis, Tennessee, shut down due to environmental concerns. 

Rick Caruso shared a report Saturday that alleges the Palisades Fire was manageable, implying local officials failed in their duties.

Keith Heaton, the executive director of the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, discusses his group’s victory in a Supreme Court ruling that limits the scope of reviews required by the National Environmental Policy Act.

There is no evidence that former President Joe Biden knew of at least eight climate-related executive actions he supposedly signed during office, according to a pro-American energy watchdog group.

A Bolivian court on Tuesday ordered the nation’s parliament to suspend its processing of contracts signed with Russian and Chinese companies for the construction of lithium processing plants in the nation, local outlets reported.

It’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it. That is the rationale driving upwards of 10,000 climate doomers jetting to the French Riviera next week for what the United Nations has deemed the latest global “climate emergency” meeting.

A rapid 14-day environmental review has seen a new uranium mine approved in Utah. The endorsement is part of a refreshed Trump administration process to fast-track permissions for energy and mining projects.

British consumers have paid nearly £220 billion more on their energy prices over the past two decades as a result of Westminster’s radical green agenda schemes, a report from a leading energy consultancy firm has found.

A major power outage struck southeastern France on Saturday, disrupting traffic and briefly halting events at the Cannes Film Festival as the prestigious event prepared to hand out its top prize.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was fuming Thursday as Congress passed a repeal of California’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate, which relied on a special waiver from the outgoing Biden administration in December.

UK pays the highest energy prices in the world, but the country could ditch its dash for wind and stop blocking new oil drilling, says Trump. 

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is reportedly seeking to impose sanctions to prevent the repair of the Nord Stream pipelines and to prevent the link between Russia and Germany from being restored should a Ukraine peace deal be brokered, sparking a backlash from populists within the top EU economy.

President Donald Trump’s administration has lifted a stop-work order on a massive offshore wind farm project, a move that could revive a gas pipeline plan.

A supercell band of tornadoes cut a path of destruction through the Ohio Valley late Friday, leaving at least 21 people dead in Kentucky and Missouri, authorities reported Saturday.

A growing number of states are expressing no appetite for so-called “lab-grown meat,” with Montana now being the latest to ban the sale of food containing the product.

Spain is running its national power grid in “strengthened mode”, using more nuclear and natural gas in place of the renewables.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) proposed Wednesday to spend $1 billion per year on the state’s failing high-speed rail project through cap-and-trade programs, even as his budget drowned in massive deficits.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Thursday introduced legislation that would derail efforts by Democrat states to institute zero-emission trains.

A claimed “gender gap” in carbon emissions was revealed Wednesday in a French study that found women emit 26 percent less carbon than men due to their diet and transport choices.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Monday said the Department slashed 47 regulations that put onerous strictures on consumer appliances, placed limits on building and energy production, and doled out taxpayer dollars to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) grants.

Four months after a devastating fire scorched the Santa Monica mountains above Pacific Palisades, wildlife are returning to the area, as green shoots draw herbivores back into the blackened hills and silted canyons.

A bill working its way through the Texas legislature has caused some double takes with language that requires solar plants to provide power in the dark.

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s hostility to the oil industry could lead to the closure of local refineries — which, in turn, could push gas prices past $6 per gallon, or even $9 per gallon, a local analyst has warned.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is formally closing the door on geoengineering and weather modification in Florida amid increased worries about “chemtrails,” signing legislation which repeals the state’s ability to issue permits for such actions.

Thirty-five Democrats in the U.S. House joined Republicans last week to repeal California Governor Gavin Newsom’s attempt to ban sales of gas-powered cars in his state in favor of electric vehicles (EVs) by 2035.