Infrastructure

Study Measures Unequal Toll Of Climate Change In Rio De Janeiro Favelas

"Michele Campos feels like crying every summer when temperatures in Rio de Janeiro climb above 40°C (100°F), heating up the cement that covers every corner of the favela of Chapeu Mangueira where she lives and making life unbearable in her windowless bedroom."

Source: Reuters, 01/20/2026

"Trump Admin Redirects Carbon Capture Funds To Prop Up Old Coal Plants"

"The Energy Department is planning to prop up old and shuttered coal plants using more than half a billion dollars that Congress originally set aside to advance carbon capture technologies and improve energy resiliency and environmental protection in rural areas."

Source: E&E News, 01/20/2026

"New York Offshore Wind Project Allowed to Restart Construction — for Now"

"A federal judge issued a temporary injunction, allowing the developer of Empire Wind, an offshore wind project off the coast of Long Island, to resume construction after the Trump administration suspended work there in late December."

Source: Inside Climate News, 01/16/2026

Wyoming County Approves What Could Become the Largest Data Center in US

"Wyoming is poised to become an artificial-intelligence powerhouse after Laramie County commissioners last week unanimously voted to move forward with the construction of a 1.8 gigawatt data center designed to eventually scale up to 10 gigawatts, which would be the largest single AI campus in the U.S. "

Source: Inside Climate News, 01/15/2026

Iran’s Regime Has Survived War. Environmental Crises May Bring It Down.

"Decades of water depletion, dam building and repression of scientists and environmentalists have driven Iran toward ecological crises that are fueling protests rocking the country."

Source: Inside Climate News, 01/15/2026

Megacity Lagos Reshapes Its Coast By Dredging And Puts Environment At Risk

"Beneath an eight-lane expressway, Nigerian men stand waist-deep in the Lagos Lagoon, lowering buckets into murky water. Each load brings up sand, reshaping the coastline of Africa’s largest city and driving away fish and livelihoods for some of its poorest people."

Source: AP, 01/14/2026

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