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A contaminated landfill that once posed an environmental threat to Waukegan, Illinois, has been transformed into a powerful symbol of clean energy justice. The new 9.1-megawatt Yeoman Solar Project, built on a former Superfund site, now provides affordable renewable energy…
Australia is confronting a devastating double blow from extreme weather events, as deadly bushfires rage across Victoria while Tropical Cyclone Koji unleashes dangerous flooding conditions in Queensland. The bushfire crisis has claimed at least one life and caused extensive destruction,…
Australia’s Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen is preparing to take an unprecedented diplomatic approach as the world’s chief climate negotiator for COP31, focusing his efforts on directly engaging oil-rich nations that have consistently blocked progress on fossil fuel…
Arizona has secured a landmark agreement with Riverview LLP, a major dairy operation whose intensive groundwater pumping has left residents in the desert town of Willcox without water and caused their homes to sink into the subsiding earth. The settlement…
Recent discussions about US involvement in Venezuela’s oil sector highlight the complex intersection of energy policy, environmental concerns, and geopolitical stability in South America. Venezuela, home to some of the world’s largest proven oil reserves, has seen its petroleum industry…
Australia is grappling with one of its most severe bushfire crises in years, as extreme heatwave conditions have sparked devastating blazes across the country’s southeast. The fires have claimed one life and destroyed approximately 300 structures while scorching over 350,000…
The United States government has announced plans to withdraw from more than 60 international organizations, many of them United Nations-affiliated bodies, in a move that political scientists warn will severely damage America’s global influence and hamper critical environmental cooperation efforts.…
The assassination of Virgilio Trujillo Arana in June 2022 highlights the deadly consequences of Venezuela’s illegal mining crisis. The Indigenous Uwottüja leader was shot three times in the head in Venezuela’s Amazonas state capital after years of defending the Amazon…
Major oil companies show little enthusiasm for Trump's Venezuela petroleum revival plans despite White House pressure. Meanwhile, Arizona secures landmark settlement with dairy operation that drained desert wells, leaving Willcox residents without water and homes sinking into subsiding earth.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ proposal to dredge the Cape Fear River in North Carolina is drawing fierce opposition from environmental groups worried about disturbing dangerous PFAS chemicals already contaminating the waterway. This latest development represents another chapter in…
