Data center construction isn’t going as planned. Bloomberg reported earlier this month that nearly half of the 12 gigawatts in computing power worth of data centers planned for this year have been delayed or canceled. Just a third of those projects are currently under construction, the market intelligence firm Sightline Climate estimates in a forthcoming […]
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Zeldin’s significance may be the one thing the Heartland crowd is right about. No other EPA head has ever done as much damage as he has, undoing climate progress and other environmental regulations. In his first year, the EPA lost and forced out employees at more than twice the rate of other agencies, bringing staffing […]
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The company’s policy proposals include several items you might expect to find in the platform of a softly left-wing congressional candidate, such as higher capital gains and corporate income taxes, expanded social safety nets, a public wealth fund, a four-day workweek, and transition programs for workers displaced by AI. But as OpenAI and other companies […]
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Whatever the underlying motivation, Hochul’s choice to roll back the law inevitably signals a concession to fossil fuel interests, which have spent millions seeking to lobby the Governor since she took office in 2021. It is also a concession to the Trump administration, suggesting that the state will effectively succumb to a hostile environmental agenda […]
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MIT.nano has announced that 16 startups became active participants in its START.nano program in 2025, more than doubling the number of new companies from the previous year. Aimed at speeding the transition of hard-tech innovation to market, START.nano supports new ventures through the discounted use of MIT.nano shared facilities and a guided access to the […]
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The pressures building this summer are broader than what we’ve seen in the past, and the political and humanitarian consequences will be severe. Our institutions were not built to manage interrelated crises. Defense ministries watch the Strait of Hormuz, agriculture departments track fertilizer prices, climate agencies issue El Niño bulletins, and Treasury officials supervise debt […]
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U.S. automakers may not feel pressured to embrace electrification, but they could see declining returns on their strategy of selling very particular types of cars to very particular types of people (read: the rich). Other countries have not limited themselves in this way. In China, for instance, drivers have embraced a wide range of genuinely affordable, […]
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The MAGA figures pivoting to solar are stressing this distinction. Kellyanne Conway’s memo to American Energy First, detailing the results of the poll it commissioned, concludes by saying that “solar, unlike wind, is not viewed through a partisan lens; it is seen as a means to an end.” Since the survey summary doesn’t document any […]
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“Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year. Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “We love Pam, and she […]
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On the face of it, these efforts to reduce oil and gas demand would seem like good news for the climate. But the reality is a little more complex. Many countries have paired conservation measures and announced renewables build-outs with rapidly increasing coal usage. Thailand’s national electric utility, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, or […]
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What unites these voices isn’t a shared position on labor policy or climate change. It’s a more fundamental conviction: Decisions should be made by the people who have to live with the consequences. The farmer whose well competes with a cooling system, the family whose electric bill doubles, the county commission that must weigh tax […]
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We are what we eat. And in the ocean, most life-forms source their food from phytoplankton. These microscopic, plant-like algae are the primary food source for krill, sea snails, some small fish, and jellyfish, which in turn feed larger marine animals that are prey for the ocean’s top predators, including humans. Now MIT scientists are […]
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This experience—widespread hatred of congestion pricing as a proposal, followed by popularity once it’s implemented – is mirrored all over the world. In London, where congestion pricing has cut car traffic in half, raised billions for public transit and increased visitors and commuters to the city’s center, only 39 percent of Londoners supported the policy […]
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We have been trained to view these meetings as dry regulatory disputes over administrative law or the “rational” weighing of economic interests. But what happens on Tuesday is a matter of life and death. The committee—composed of the heads of the Interior, Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Army, and the […]
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The MAGA figures pivoting to solar are stressing this distinction. Kellyanne Conway’s memo to American Energy First, detailing the results of the poll it commissioned, concludes by saying that “solar, unlike wind, is not viewed through a partisan lens; it is seen as a means to an end.” Since the survey summary doesn’t document any […]
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An oil researcher I spoke to, Rory Johnston, described the situation as “utter pandemonium.” On social media, energy investor Eric Nuttall put it even more starkly: “This is the worst energy crisis of our lifetimes, well beyond what any sober mind could have envisioned, with no end in sight.” To date, however, markets have been […]
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revistula net zero workplace redefines warsaw riverfront ReVistula transforms an existing office building along Warsaw’s Vistula riverfront into a net-zero landmark workplace. Designed by MJZ with Łoskiewicz Studio for Syrena Real Estate, the project reimagines the structure through circular thinking, ecological strategies, and new construction technologies. Instead of demolition, the proposal embraces reuse as […]
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But which prices matter? Bloomberg’s Javier Blas pointed out that the price of WTI—while important to Wall Street, and to Trump—is far less important to ordinary consumers than the bundle of products produced from crude oil, like diesel, jet fuel, and gasoline. “Those are all individual commodity markets,” Johnston told me. “Refineries refine a barrel […]
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All this is jeopardizing Greenlandic-U.S. science partnerships stretching back decades, upon which much of modern climate science depends. International scientists, like many Greenlanders, aren’t happy about it—and they say that if Trump’s rhetorical posturing gets in the way of their research, the harm caused could be global. One of those early partnerships was the late-1980s […]
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Gas may be a political solution, but progressives don’t see a material one. “It’s not more affordable, it’s definitely not sustainable, and it may not even be attainable given supply chains,” says Samantha Dynowski, director of the Sierra Club in Connecticut. Recent data from New York shows that natural gas prices have risen more rapidly […]
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Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in driving up global temperatures. But it doesn’t linger in the atmosphere for long thanks to molecules called hydroxyl radicals, which are known as the “atmosphere’s detergent” for their ability to break down methane. As the planet warms, however, it’s unclear how […]
Read MoreAll electoral politics is to some extent identity politics, in that it entails a population choosing a representative who will speak for them—and therefore, typically, whom they also see as being like them in one way or another. This may be why Talarico, an outspoken Christian, is such a viable candidate, even as a Democrat, […]
Read MoreThe MAGA figures pivoting to solar are stressing this distinction. Kellyanne Conway’s memo to American Energy First, detailing the results of the poll it commissioned, concludes by saying that “solar, unlike wind, is not viewed through a partisan lens; it is seen as a means to an end.” Since the survey summary doesn’t document any […]
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This somewhat pie-in-the-sky thought exercise is worth doing if for no other reason than it forces us to ask what are we doing? What wanton waste of our treasure accompanies our appetite for conflicts costing hundreds of thousands of lives? What do we, the taxpayers who are actually footing this bill, truly want our tax […]
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But that doesn’t explain why people so frequently treat the destruction of nature and the suffering of animals as undeserving of legitimate concern. If misery and loss are bad, then these are among the greatest catastrophes taking place today. Around 10 billion chickens, turkeys, cows, and pigs are slaughtered in the U.S. every year. Animals […]
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For some time, I’ve been using different generative AI systems to duplicate—shadow, if you will—work I’m already doing in the course of my normal workday, often in response to a function I’ve seen someone demonstrate online. Sometimes, it delivers both accurate information and reasonable references; similar to a successful Google search. But go beyond narrow, […]
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The Reagan administration, whose environmental policy was helmed by James Watt, a millenarian Christian who opposed most environmental regulation because Jesus was just about to come back anyway, did not care about acid rain. But when Reagan’s vice president, George H.W. Bush, ran for president in 1988, he needed a swing issue to appeal to […]
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And that points to another thing that could be done to eliminate these outages: a more interconnected grid. This was one of the main factors in 2021 in Texas, Kurland noted. “Texas’s power grid, ERCOT, is primarily islanded from the rest of the United States, so there weren’t a lot of connections there to be […]
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In 2025, Trump’s EPA “launched fewer civil judicial cases than any other administration in the past 20 years,” EDGI found—just one-third of what the Biden administration initiated in 2024. The Trump EPA has overseen a 66 percent shriveling in judicial cases filed and a 46 percent decline in cases concluded, EDGI found. In this “historic […]
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To avoid the worst effects of climate change, many billions of metric tons of industrially generated carbon dioxide will have to be captured and stored away by the end of this century. One place to store such an enormous amount of greenhouse gas is in the Earth itself. If carbon dioxide were pumped into the […]
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And that points to another thing that could be done to eliminate these outages: a more interconnected grid. This was one of the main factors in 2021 in Texas, Kurland noted. “Texas’s power grid, ERCOT, is primarily islanded from the rest of the United States, so there weren’t a lot of connections there to be […]
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