Changing faces atop Capitol Hill GOP leadership and the top ranks of the Interior Department could bring shifts in posture.
Driving the news: Tommy Beaudreau is stepping down from the number 2 role at Interior, which regulates energy development on huge swaths of public lands and waters.
Global carbon emissions frompower production essentially plateaued in the first half of 2023.
Driving the news:New analysis from the non-governmental organization Ember says 2023 may mark a turning point, with the sector's emissions having risen just 0.2% during H123. "[T]he world is nearing the point of falling power sector emissions," the NGO wrote.
The U.S. could meet its net-zero-emissions target by 2050 through three key portfolios of actions on electric vehicles, buildings and scaling clean energy, a new report finds.
Why it matters: The analysis, made by the ICF Climate Center, offers an optimistic take on what the U.S. can do with available technologies and policy levers to slash emissions. The Climate Center is a research arm within global consulting firm ICF.
The planet has shattered heat records in recent months, but even by the standards of a sizzling summer, September's temperature anomaly stands out.
The big picture: Following the hottest June through August on record, and the globe's hottest ever month in July, last month's preliminary data has astonished climate researchers who anticipated such extremes eventually.
Religion and race shape views on whether climate change is caused by human activities — with less than a third of white evangelicals saying it's driven by people, according to a new survey.
