Energy & Fuel

Solar And Wind Power Grew Faster Than Electricity Demand This Year: Report

"Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new analysis."

Source: AP, 10/08/2025

Tests Show That A Pennsylvania Town’s Water Was Contaminated by Fracking

"Three years after noticing discoloration and odors in their wells, residents in New Freeport are still fighting for clean water."

Source: Inside Climate News, 10/08/2025

Fracking Waste In A Landfill Again Poses A Monongahela Pollution Problem

"On a rainy morning, Mike Frederick showed off the Belle Vernon Municipal Authority’s sewage treatment plant, about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh."

Source: Allegheny Front, 10/07/2025

"New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Admin Hires"

"The Trump administration wasted no time in tapping individuals with ties to fossil fuel industries and right-wing think tanks funded by oil tycoons for key environmental and energy policy positions, according to a new report."

Source: Inside Climate News, 10/07/2025

Climate Solutions, for Some, May Not Be

A small Louisiana community, home to the descendants of formerly enslaved Black people, continues to fight for its freedom many decades later, this time from a potentially polluting technology. FEJ StoryLog contributor Yessenia Funes recounts her journey to this Cancer Alley community, where a grant from the Fund for Environmental Journalism helped her tell the story of residents challenging a multibillion-dollar carbon capture plant.

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"Advocates Raise Alarm Over PFAS Pollution From Datacenters Amid AI Boom"

"Tech companies’ use of PFAS gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought"

"Datacenters’ electricity demands have been accused of delaying the US’s transition to clean energy and requiring fossil fuel plants to stay online, while their high level of water consumption has also raised alarm. Now public health advocates fear another environmental problem could be linked to them – PFAS “forever chemical” pollution.

Source: Guardian, 10/06/2025

Study Shows The World Has Far More Damaging Fires Than In The 1980s

"Earth’s nastiest and costliest wildfires are blazing four times more often now than they did in the 1980s because of human-caused climate change and people moving closer to wildlands, a new study found."

Source: AP, 10/06/2025

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