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Loretta Lohman

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Dec 3, 2025, 7:12:50 PM (3 days ago) Dec 3

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American Prospect

Lightning in a Bottle Control over electricity rests largely in the hands of private monopolies known as investor-owned utilities (IOUs), which provide power to nearly 70 percent of utility customers in the U.S. And they are raking in revenue at more that twice inflation. Public utility commissions are not doing their job.

Big Pivots

Might good come from the NREL name change? Maybe, but also plentiful skepticism about scrubbing of ‘renewable energy’ from name of laboratory by Trump’s team

Bloomberg/CityLab

New Delhi Is the Smog Capital of the World. What Can Be Done?

India’s Richest Family Powers Push for Green Space in Mumbai

Canary Media

As solar booms and coal fades, Greece’s mining region struggles to adapt

Ohio fines FirstEnergy $250M in landmark decision on HB 6 scandal

Carbon Brief

Cropped 3 December 2025: Extreme weather in Africa; COP30 roundup; Saudi minister interview

Deadly floods in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia kill more than 1,400 people

Europe reaches deal on phasing out Russian gas imports by 2027

Read the COP small print

Colorado Sun

Activists capturing and burning methane at an abandoned Colorado coal mine as a “macro solution” for the climate The methane destruction project above Paonia could be a global model for reducing emissions of a potent greenhouse gas

Common Dreams

Trump Administration Proposes Gutting Mile-Per-Gallon Auto Rule

Conversation

What are small modular reactors, a new type of nuclear power plant sought to feed AI’s energy demand?

Sri Lanka’s latest climate-driven floods expose flaws in disaster preparations – here’s what needs to change

Google’s proposed data center in orbit will face issues with space debris in an already crowded orbit

E&E News

Climate lawsuits evolved over 10 years into ‘powerful tool,’ report says

Environmental News Network

New Study Offers a Glimpse Into 230,000 Years of Climate and Landscape Shifts in the Southwest

A Cleaner, Less Toxic Way of Making a Staple Chemical

Flood Risks in Delta Cities Are Increasing, Study Finds

Grist

How one Seattle organization is turning food waste into plant food

EV sales are way down. Here’s why that might not be a big deal.

Inside Climate News

Rare Win for Renewable Energy: Trump Administration Funds Geothermal Network Expansion

A Hurricane Season That Surprised With Record Storms and Notable Lulls

Alabama Regulators Approve Two-Year Electric Rate Freeze and Two Solar Projects for a Meta Inc. Data Center

LA Wildfire Survivors Want to Rebuild All-Electric, but a Utility Is Using Customer Funds to Incentivize Gas Appliances

MSN

These companies want to block the sun to cool the planet

The Cost of Climate Change: $1,300 Per Year For U.S. Households

Maven’s Notebook

DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: New study offers a glimpse into 230,000 years of climate and landscape shifts in the Southwest

New Republic

Climate Change Is Killing the Myth of Los Angeles

New York Times

Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy

Canada Turns to the World’s Polar Bear Capital to Defend its Arctic

Storm Floodwaters in Indonesia Turned Logs Into Floating Projectiles

Nature Retracts Study Predicting Catastrophic Climate Toll While growing evidence shows that carbon emissions are harming the economy, the journal Nature found that an outlier paper had deep flaws.

Phys.org

Zero waste in schools? Why factoring in labor is essential

Coastal regions and climate change: How better risk assessment can help protect infrastructure and livelihoods

24,000 times more harmful to the climate than CO₂: Measurements reveal SF₆ gas emissions in Germany

Norway postpones deep-sea mining activities for four years

Three ways climate change affects mental health—and why the story is more hopeful than it might seem

Researchers slightly lower study's estimate of drop in global income due to climate change

Thunderstorms are noisily kicking off summer in NZ—what's driving them?

New study offers a glimpse into 230,000 years of climate and landscape shifts in the American Southwest

Machine learning used to better predict New England floods

Tropical Australian study sets new standard for Indigenous-led research

Deadly Asian floods are no fluke. They're a climate warning, scientists say

Flood risks in delta cities are increasing, Shanghai study finds

Successful Farming

Trump Cuts Could Hinder Efforts to Stop Climate-Fueled Spread of Invasive Species

Sustainability Magazine

UNEP: Is Methane the ‘Emergency Brake’ for Climate Change?

Trellis

Utah data center will solve water, power scarcity in a novel way The project includes a state-of-the-art cooling system that will require less water — but also a massive array of gas-powered generators.