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Byline: Helena Horton Environment reporter Experts have accused the fossil fuel industry of seeking special treatment after lobbyists argued greenhouse gas emissions from oilfields should be treated differently to those [...]

Byline: Dino Grandoni As the governor of a major oil-producing state, Doug Burgum emerged as a staunch champion of the fossil fuel industry. Yet he promised to make his state [...]

Montana's permitting of oil, gas and coal projects without consideration for climate change violates residents' constitutional right to a clean environment, the state's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, upholding a landmark [...]

Carrboro accused Duke, one the nation's largest utility companies, of ignoring data about climate change while increasing use of fossil fuels. A North Carolina town filed a lawsuit on Wednesday [...]

Byline: Nicholas Gilmore ngilmore@sfnewmexican.com Issues in Focus The Trump effect: Energy As President-elect Donald Trump continues to roll out a flurry of nominees for Cabinet-level positions, one name on the [...]

As leaders gather for a global climate summit, investors are rewarding oil giants like Exxon Mobil that did not embrace wind and solar. When oil and gas companies made ambitious [...]

With the world on track for its hottest year in modern history, maybe you've decided to invest your money in a way that's better for the planet. Fossil fuel emissions [...]

Byline: Maya Yang Donald Trump 's nomination of North Dakota 's Republican governor, Doug Burgum, as the interior secretary has prompted swift backlash from environmental advocacy groups alarmed at the [...]

Byline: Damian Carrington in Baku There is 'no sign' of the transition away from burning fossil fuels that was pledged by the world's nations a year ago, with 2024 on [...]

Byline: Dharna Noor Major oil companies, including Shell and precursors to energy giants Chevron, ExxonMobil and BP, were alerted about the planet-warming effects of fossil fuels as early as 1954, [...]

Byline: DAVID MILLER Managing director of the C40 Centre for City Climate Policy and Economy, and the author of Solved: How the World's Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis [...]

Byline: Carmen Lawrence Western Australia sometimes feels more than three hours behind the rest of the country. The tyranny of our distance has always meant it's been hard to get [...]

Byline: Observer editorial The havoc unleashed by Hurricane Milton provided unambiguous evidence that we are entering a critical and alarming new phase in the planet's climate crisis. Rising fossil fuel [...]

The Oregon lawsuit alleges that the utility knew of the dangers of burning fossil fuels and misled its customers. Oregon officials have added the state's largest natural gas utility as [...]

Byline: Niko Kommenda, Harry Stevens The last operating coal power plant in Britain closed this week, ending more than 140 years of coal-fired electricity and proving that major economies can [...]

Byline: Patrick Greenfield She is one of the biggest opponents of fossil fuel on the world stage -- but Susana Muhamad's political career was sparked in the halls of an [...]

Byline: Oliver Milman in New York Countries are ignoring commitments they made less than a year ago to shift away from fossil fuels and to provide aid to those most [...]

Byline: Adam Morton The news that the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority is likely to recommend that a massive gas export development off the state's north-west shouldn't go ahead is [...]

Byline: Inga Saffron Aug. 2For the full-on Hogwartian experience, few American campuses can match the moment when you step off the SEPTA train at Swarthmore College and gaze up at [...]

The burning of fossil fuels has created more frequent and more intense heat waves. Experts warn these heat waves are ''the new normal.'' June was the Earth's 13th consecutive month [...]

His comments came as the world body's weather agency said it expected Earth to soon surpass the record high temperatures experienced in 2023. With the planet in the grips of [...]

The California governor, speaking at the Vatican, used sharp language to describe the former president's appeal to fossil fuel executives for campaign donations. Burnishing his climate credentials at a conference [...]

Byline: Matthew Taylor A multibillion-pound 'net zero' project backed by two of the world's biggest fossil fuel firms will be responsible for more than 20m tonnes of planet-heating carbon over [...]

Byline: Emily J. Aguirre, Generation Next Generation Next ummer is around the corner, and some of the hottest temperatures yet could be, too. U.S. scientists predicted in January there is [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY The cause of global warming shows no sign of slowing down: Levels of the three most significant human-caused greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide (CO2), methane [...]

Byline: Phoebe Weston Up to a third of Africa's great apes are threatened by a boom in mining projects for minerals required for the renewable energy transition, new research shows. [...]