A buzzy and important paper linking extreme heat's economic toll to specific companies could boost climate litigation — but also dives into questions of responsibility that science alone can't answer.
Why it matters: The peer-reviewed study in Nature comes as many states and local governments are suing oil majors for damages linked to climate change.
President Trump wants to fast-track U.S. coastal projects to find and extract minerals from the ocean floor that can be used for defense, energy and other industrial applications.
Why it matters: Oceans are potentially rich source of manganese, cobalt, nickel and copper — materials crucial to the energy transition — bound up in nodules on the sea floor.
Michael Polsky, founder and CEO of independent power giant Invenergy, has plenty on his plate. But one priority stands out.
"If I could only be allowed to give one [piece of] advice to the administration, what to do, what's most important, I would say, 'Support transmission development. Everything else will come,'" he tells Axios.
