In Kentucky, energy security and air regulation were placed on the same scale. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans to roll back limits on mercury and hazardous air toxics from coal-fired power plants, arguing that the move will support baseload generation at a time of rising electricity demand tied
In New York, the architecture of climate capital markets is still under construction. Green Impact Exchange (GIX), one of only ten licensed stock exchange operators in the United States, has appointed Alexis Levenson as Chief Communications Officer and Executive Vice President, a newly created role as the exchange builds infrastructure
In London, climate diplomacy did not wait for Washington. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a memorandum of understanding with UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband deepening cooperation on climate and sustainable development, formalizing an alliance that positions California as a subnational actor in global climate governance. The visit concluded with UK
In Albany, climate authority is not contracting. It is consolidating. The New York State Senate has passed legislation that would require large companies doing business in the state to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, moving the Empire State closer to establishing its own corporate climate reporting regime. The bill now
The transition of the Philippine energy landscape is increasingly defined by the entry of specialized international capital into isolated grid environments. A 30 million dollar bridge loan acquisition facility now supports the transfer of the 16MW wind and 6MW storage project of Philippines Hybrid Energy Systems Inc to Verdant Energy.
In Washington, the scaffolding of federal climate regulation did not collapse in a single vote. It was dismantled at its base. The Trump administration has formally repealed the 2009 “endangerment finding,” the scientific determination that greenhouse gas emissions threaten public health. With it, the Environmental Protection Agency eliminated federal tailpipe
The world’s largest pool of capital is looking for a place to park its energy. After years of anchoring its renewable portfolio in the spinning blades of offshore wind and the sprawling glass of solar farms, Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global has signaled a transition into the infrastructure that makes
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to rescind the federal government’s landmark determination that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare, a move that would strike at the legal foundation of nearly every major climate regulation enacted over the past two decades. Known as the “endangerment finding,” the
More than $35 billion in clean energy investment and tens of thousands of jobs did not disappear overnight. They faded quietly, project by project, factory by factory, as federal priorities shifted and certainty gave way to hesitation. On a gray winter morning in the heartland, the factory floor is silent.
Brussels — The European Parliament voted today to enshrine a 90 percent cut in net greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 into EU law. The decision sets the most ambitious intermediate climate target ever adopted by a major economy and hardens the EU’s path toward climate neutrality. The vote updates the
