President Trump signed a "national energy emergency" that gives his administration new powers to boost fossil fuel development around the country.

One day after Trump's inauguration, oil and gas billionaires see their total wealth boosted by more than $3 billion.

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Commodities tied to clean energy and electrification showed resilience in 2024, despite the global manufacturing slowdown and Trump’s roll back of “green” agenda items.

Golden and Pham have both backed recent legislation to move the Treasury away from fossil fuel investments, including the COAL ACT passed in 2023, which directs the Treasury to divest its holdings in publicly traded companies that derive 20% or more of their revenue from coal production.

“They have to produce a lot of electricity and we will make it possible for them to get that production done very easily, at their own plants if they want,” Trump said. “At the AI plant they will build energy generation and that will be incredible.” It’s unclear if building energy operations inside an AI data center is possible in practice.

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Power generators have boosted output from high-polluting coal and oil-fired power stations this year to help battle an extended cold snap enveloping much of the country.

In 2023, $2.2 billion was spent on fossil fuels for transportation and heating in Vermont. The average Vermont household spent between $5,000 - $8,000 on combined transportation, heating, and electricity costs (and that’s just for fuel,

A record 47 percent of the European Union’s electricity now comes from solar and other renewables, a report Thursday said, in yet another sign of the growing gap between the bloc’s push for clean energy and the new U.S. administration’s pursuit of more fossil fuels.

A record 47% of the European Union's electricity now comes from solar and other renewables, a report Thursday said, in yet another sign of the growing gap between the bloc's push for clean energy and the new U.

New research highlights companies’ “aligned and coordinated” use of Twitter to deny climate change and delay solutions.