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New York Will Ban Small Shampoo Bottles At Hotels In 2025 - Across New York, NY - The enforcement begins on Jan. 1 2025 and hotels that break the rule could face a $250 fine after the first offense, according to the bill.

The state is blowing past key milestones on the way to its big emissions targets.

Once a mixture of eggs, cream and whiskey in the 1800s, the kid-friendly milkshake of today has come a long way. Yet, despite its innocuous composition, that strawberry swirl isn’t all sunshine and

With electric demand from data centers skyrocketing, the state considers how to meet its goal of decarbonizing the grid.

The agency rubber-stamped Tyson's beef as "climate friendly," but no one has seen the data behind the company's claim.

The vast majority of companies view sustainability as a value creation opportunity, with more than three quarters anticipating potential benefits ranging from higher revenues and profitability to lower cost of capital, although many also expect increased sustainability-related costs and a need for significant investment, according to a new survey released by Morgan Stanley. For the […]

The largest facility yet to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere just turned on in Iceland. Much bigger carbon removal projects are in the works in the US.

EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Announces $20 Billion in Grants to Mobilize Private Capital and Deliver Clean Energy and Climate Solutions to Communities Across America

Nitrogen, phosphorus, chloride, oil and cyanide among the 371m lb of pollutants released by just 41 plants in five years

Energy ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies reached a deal to shut down their coal-fired power plants in the first half of the 2030s, in a significant step towards the transition away from fossil fuels.

World leaders and negotiators meet in Ottawa from 21-29 April to prepare a new UN Treaty on global plastic pollution.

The Southeast is grappling with widespread devastation after Helene made landfall Thursday as the strongest hurricane on record to slam into Florida’s Big Bend region and tore through multiple states, killing at least 95 people, knocking out power to millions and trapping families in floodwaters. In hard-hit North Carolina, days of unrelenting flooding have turned roads into waterways, left many without basic necessities and strained state resources. Here’s the latest:

The new data comes from the Energy Information Administration

Temperatures surpassed the 1.5-degree Celsius warming threshold over the past year, and scientists warn they will again soon.

Global investment in clean energy technology and infrastructure is set to hit $2 trillion this year, twice the amount going into fossil fuels, an International Energy Agency report showed.

PFAS compounds have been linked to a number of health conditions. They are aren't broken down in our bodies or in the environment, but researchers and companies are making progress in getting rid of them for good.

How worried should we be about AI’s effects on the grid?

Wind and solar power growth are big contributors to the record percentage

The funds are part of a push by the Biden administration to help the auto industry, and Michigan, prepare for a transition to electric vehicles.

Greenhouse gas emissions might have already peaked. Now they need to fall — fast.

Coca-Cola and PepsiCo came in at the top of a global audit of plastic waste.

Thousands of negotiators and observers representing most of the world’s nations are gathering in the Canadian city of Ottawa this week to craft a treaty to end the rapidly escalating problem of plastic pollution.