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Media continues to ring climate alarm, but 2025 saw the fewest deaths from extreme weather ever
Legacy media outlets rounded out 2025 with articles recounting extreme weather events, presenting the year as one of climate chaos. They aren't reporting that 2025 was likely the year of the fewest deaths from climate-related natural disasters in recorded history.
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Data centers in crosshairs as energy costs rise, experts say net zero policies real culprit
Opposition to data centers is growing for many reasons, but concerns about electricity costs drives a lot of the concern. Some experts argue that the high energy demands of AI wouldn't be a problem if previous administrations hadn't pursued climate policies that restrict the supply.
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Big brother? Illinois’ compact fluorescent bulb ban begins to take effect
Light bulb ban is one of the nearly 300 new laws that took effect in Illinois in New Year’s Day.
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Dissatisfaction all around of WA energy council's approval of Horse Heaven project
The project may ultimately include 222 turbines about 500 feet tall or 141 turbines about 670 feet tall. There will also be solar arrays and battery storage, stretching from Horse Heaven Hills just south of Kennewick for about 24 miles.
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Opponents rally to stop carbon capture projects near water supplies in Illinois
The aquifer serves over 100 communities, businesses, and farmers throughout central Illinois and is vital to the economy.
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British oil giant BP ditches wind energy as part of a renewed focus on oil, gas and solar
The company said in June that it would be implementing a hiring freeze and pausing new offshore wind projects as it focuses on oil and gas to satisfy investors' interests.
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Flaming column erupts from Houston-area pipeline, officials waiting for burnout
Energy Transfer, the firm that operates the pipeline, has indicated that it shut off gas flow to the pipeline and expects the blaze to persist until the remaining fuel burns out.
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Tri Cities wind/solar project moving forward after Friday vote
EFSEC reduced the size of the project to protect endangered ferruginous hawks, Native American traditional lands and skyline views from much of the Tri-Cities.
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Final vote expected on Horse Heaven wind energy farm near Tri-Cities
A group called Tri-Cities CARES, opposing the wind farm argues it is too close to the Tri-Cities and will destroy open views of the landscape.
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State's $100,000+ cost to plug orphan wells 'outrageously enormous'
Estimates vary dramatically because precious few records remain of wells from the 1940s or earlier. National estimates place abandoned wells at 3 million, and in Pennsylvania, best guesses range from 200,000 to 750,000.
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Hurricane forecasts poised to be spectacularly overstated, raising doubt about climate science
With the hurricane season refusing to produce the “turbocharged” extreme weather so-called climate journalists have been warning about, these reporters are now worried that people will start to doubt the alarm.
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Portion of world electricity generated by fossil fuels has fallen 2 percentage points in 30 years
In 2023, coal, natural gas and oil-fired power plants produced 18 terawatt hours of electricity, which was 60% of the total, down 62% from 2023.
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No shame: Radical climate activists disrupt Virginia governor’s speech on Americans killed on 9/11
Climate Defiance boasts of its aggressive tactics to stop consumers from using fossil fuels. The group backs Vice-President Kamala Harris in her bid for the presidency and met with a Harris campaign advisor earlier this month.