A coalition of business and trade groups is suing the Hochul administration over a law that will force oil, natural gas and coal companies to pay $75 million for spewing carbon emissions.

which scientists say could help the world avoid the worst effects of climate change. In the U.S., the electric power sector is the second-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, according to government figures. And the construction of every new natural gas ...

Cutting down emissions of planet-warming methane from oil and gas production was supposed to be relatively simple. It hasn’t worked that way.

Shell estimates that natural gas demand will soar by 60 per cent by 2040. This is not only a blow to decarbonisation hopes, writes Howard Mustoe, but it won’t easy the cost to consumers either

The biggest challenge to limiting climate change to 2°C, the upper target of the 2015 Paris agreement, is this: methane emissions are rising very fast.

President Donald Trump pledged a U-turn away from the Biden administration’s commitment to fighting climate change and promoting clean energy

Drawing from an InfluenceMap database that tracks corporate engagement on climate policies, researchers found that fossil fuel companies and their trade associations have used similar lobbying tactics across countries,

U.S. And the Inflation Reduction Act, which passed in 2022 and allocated a historic $369 billion in climate and energy provisions, continued to help transform the clean energy landscape. Despite these sweeping investments and the growing urgency of the climate crisis,

The Senate voted to overturn an EPA rule requiring oil companies to pay a fine for emitting methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

Electricity demand in the United States has been relatively flat for a couple decades. Over that time, booming natural gas and cheaper wind and solar have increasingly replaced aging coal-fired power plants, leading to a sizable long-term drop in greenhouse gas pollution.

President Trump has quickly transformed America’s approach to the environment, withholding funds and stretching the limits of presidential power.

LNG export projects are late in trying to sell to an oversupplied global market — when renewables are the cheapest energy option and many countries are keen to reduce dependence on foreign energy.