Inside Climate News
(August 28, 2025)
Considered the data center capital of the world, Virginia will see more of big tech’s energy- and water-intensive facilities.
The Richmonder
(August 27, 2025)
“[Data centers are] breaking our systems, they're breaking our energy system. They're breaking our water systems, and that puts all of us at risk,” Miller said.
“Effectively, it's just a new tax,” Miller said. “It's a tax for Google, it's a tax for Amazon.”
Miller said a major concern is lack of transparency or information on the new projects coming to Virginia. The coalition’s database is currently tracking 450 applications to data centers, a number he said the state has told the group they do not have access to.
This clip includes statements from Piedmont Environmental Council president Chris Miller
Virginia Mercury
(August 26, 2025)
After a Republican majority in Congress passed a major reconciliation bill this summer, states are expected to potentially absorb additional costs for SNAP, and will likely impose additional verification requirements for recipients. A recent analysis from Voices for Virginia’s Children estimates nearly 447,000 families are at risk of losing at least some of their SNAP benefits.
Daily Maverick
(August 26, 2025)
In the wake of the US’s near unilateral withdrawal from the global green-tech race, Kingsmill Bond was quoted in the Daily Telegraph as saying: “From China’s perspective, this is just fabulous. For the next four years, the US is giving up on the greatest economic battle of our time.”
Dr Michael Power recently retired from Ninety One where he was the Global Strategist for most of the past two decades. He remains a Consultant to Ninety One. Prior to Ninety One, he had worked in London, South Africa and Kenya for Anglo-American, Rothschild, HSBC Equator and Barings. He has a PhD from UCT, a master’s from the Fletcher School at Tufts and a bachelor’s from Oxford.
Eventbrite
(August 25, 2025)
Albemarle County is pushing to update its recently adopted Data Center Ordinance this fall, proposing data centers can be built without input from the public or elected officials in certain areas. Julie Bolthouse, Piedmont Environmental Council’s Director of Land Use and one of the leaders of the Virginia Data Center Reform Coalition, is coming to Charlottesville to speak about data centers’ environmental impacts and how advocating for regulations at the state and local level and transparency can achieve better outcomes for communities. She will be joined by PEC’s Albemarle County Senior Land Use Representative, Rob McGinnis, who will talk about the ongoing Data Center Ordinance update and how you can get involved this fall.
PEC is convening this meeting as a public service, and inviting members of the public to attend, free of charge – Tuesday, September 16 from 6 - 8pm at The Center at Belvedere, 540 Belvedere Boulevard, Charlottesville 22901.
Loudoun Now
(August 25, 2025)
As the State Corporation Commission reviews Dominion's submission to increase utility rates, the Piedmont Environmental Commission launched a statewide campaign to raise awareness of the impacts of data centers on all Virginia residents. The campaign, called Virginians for a Smarter Digital Future, includes statewide advertising aimed at informing residents about the role of the SCC and its impending review of Dominion Energy's rates.
Piedmont Environmental Commission President Chris Miller said most short-term and long-term electricity option prices have spiked in the regional market. “There really isn’t extra power on the market,” Miller said. “What is available is now being auctioned at multiples, I think actually 10 times the average price.”
This clip quotes Piedmont Environmental Council president Chris Miller.
Bloomberg
(August 25, 2025)
Demand from data centers is straining America’s biggest energy grid, and consumers are paying a steep price.
After many years of flat electricity demand, PJM now forecasts an imminent jump, and it takes time — as well as spiking price signals — for energy supply to react. The culprit is the AI boom, with PJM serving Virginia’s burgeoning data center alley. Some 64% of those ballooning capacity payments that began hitting bills in June relate to actual and projected datacenter demand, according to Monitoring Analytics’ calculations.
Fauquier Times
(August 25, 2025)
The developers of Gigaland, the controversial data center project, have officially withdrawn their request for the approval from Fauquier County that would allow them to build a data center complex on a 200-acre site in Remington. The move comes less than a week after Gigaland asked for a delay of a public hearing slated for Sept. 11 on those requests, which would need the approval of the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors. If the project had been denied, the developers would have had to wait a year before reapplying.
PV Magazine
(August 25, 2025)
Rooftop solar causes impacts consumers without solar by less than a dollar per monthly electric bill in most states, found a new qualitative analysis by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which launched the study due to many states revising net metering policies following arguments between stakeholders over whether net metering increases costs for residents without rooftop solar.
Culpeper Star-Exponent
(August 23, 2025)
Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District, which includes Culpeper, Greene, Madison, Orange and Rappahannock Counties, is hosting its Fourth Annual New Landowner Workshop featuring presentations by Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Virginia State University Small Farm Program, Virginia Cooperative Extension, Virginia Department of Forestry, Virginia Outdoors Foundation, Virginia Grassland Bird Initiative and more. Come learn about all the free services and financial incentive programs available to landowners.
This event – which will take place on September 5th from 9am-2pm at the pavilion at Graves Mountain Lodge in Madison County – will feature a presentation about the Piedmont Environmental Council's Virginia Grassland Bird Initiative.
Fauquier Now
(August 22, 2025)
Launching the campaign, PEC's president Chris Miller stated that developers, along with the lawmakers who support them, have flooded residents with rhetoric about “short-term and speculative benefits of data centers while conveniently leaving out the long-term, definitive impacts every Virginian will feel, not least of which is a huge increase in their electric bills.”
This clip, which quotes Piedmont Environmental Council's president Chris Miller, includes information about "Virginians for a Smarter Digital Future" https://www.smarterdigitalvirginia.com/
PBS
(August 17, 2025)
MOLLY TAFT, Senior Reporter, WIRED: "There's a lot of environmental asks, but one specific protection that caught my eye was a very specific ask around a section of the Clean Water Act, which is known as a 404 permit, which is named after the section of the Clean Water act it refers to. So, if you're building anything that will impact a federally protected waterway, if you're building a road across a wetland, if you're building a building that nudges up into a protected stream, if you're altering the course of a river, you're going to need a permit. It can be a pretty cumbersome process, can be expensive and add a couple years onto a project. What the federal government has done is said there's a set of activities that we will just say, okay, you don't need to go through this cumbersome permitting process."
You can just get a blanket permit.
And what the tech industry is asking for is for data centers to be included in this list.
MSN
(August 27, 2025)
According to West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Director Brett McMillion, the tours have become one of the state’s most popular wildlife experiences, and they have sold out in the past. The tours are available on weekends from Sept. 4 to Oct. 25. Both morning and evening tours are available.
BPR News
(August 21, 2025)
The Trump administration has fired three board members, leaving TVA without a quorum, and is threatening the others with replacement unless the current CEO is fired as well. The administration has shown interest in privatizing TVA, and initiated talks to do so during its first term. If TVA were to be privatized, union leaders fear its assets could be sold off to investor-owned utilities, whose primary obligations are to shareholders.
Information Charlottesville
(August 28, 2025)
In one month, the Rivanna Trail Foundation and other groups will celebrate the pathway that encircles the city of Charlottesville during the annual Loop de ‘Ville Trail Fest on September 27. Registration is now open online
The Piedmont Environmental Council will have a mini loop of three miles along the Rivanna River for people of all abilities.
Charlottesville Community Engagement
(August 27, 2025)
“While Albemarle County continues to grow, no new land will ever be available,” reads the narrative. “Therefore, it is important to plan carefully, especially in the case of larger parcels, such as the Sieg property.”
The Daily Progress
(August 24, 2025)
Charlottesville has been granted a second chance to defend its new zoning ordinance. It's still no guarantee that the recent "upzoning" will survive.
29 News
(August 22, 2025)
With federal tax credits for solar and energy efficiency set to expire September 30, part of President Trump’s plan to eliminate them, Charlottesville officials and local energy groups are urging homeowners to act fast before they miss out. LEAP says over 300 businesses, nonprofits and households have already switched to solar in the last six months and they want to keep that momentum going.
Information Charlottesville
(August 22, 2025)
Two months before a scheduled vote on the Comprehensive Plan, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors has adopted a strategic plan for economic development – Download the adopted plan here
Fauquier Times
(August 27, 2025)
When Remington’s town leaders make big decisions, there’s usually hardly anyone in the small room where they meet. But lately, the whole county wants to weigh in on the town’s future. Developers, advocacy groups and politicians are debating a huge data center development proposed near the town, each pitching different visions for Remington’s future.
Fauquier Times
(August 21, 2025)
Fauquier County Water and Sanitation Authority first tested the county’s wells for the chemicals in 2023, and found higher levels than expected, given there was no known pollution source at the time of the tests. The county estimates 35% of wells operated by the authority require treatment for forever chemicals.
Fauquier Times
(August 21, 2025)
The neighbors aired their complaints about flooding and increased traffic linked to construction and new development at Warrenton’s first town hall meeting in eight years on Monday, Aug. 18.
Rappahannock News
(August 25, 2025)
The withdrawal cancels a Sept. 11 Board of Supervisors public hearing and ends consideration of the four 2024 applications. Developers will now prepare a new application, which must go through the full review process, including a staff review, Planning Commission public hearing and recommendation and Board of Supervisors public hearing and vote.
“We do anticipate that a new application will be filed in the future; however, we do not know the timeline or what components will be included,” Shellenberger told Fauquier Now.
Prince William Times
(August 27, 2025)
Google’s “Mango Farm” data center complex in Bristow is included in the $9 billion in new investment in Virginia that the technology giant and Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Wednesday. It’s not clear if the $9 billion in additional investment the company announced Wednesday, Aug. 27 will mean even more data centers. A Google spokeswoman did not respond to a request for more detailed information from the Prince William Times.
Prince William Times
(August 27, 2025)
A group of Gainesville residents fighting the massive Prince William Digital Gateway scored another legal victory Wednesday when a Prince William County judge denied a request from the county and the data center companies involved to stay her earlier ruling that voided the project.
Prince William Times
(August 26, 2025)
Prince William County’s lawyers have been in court this week to ask Judge Kimberly Irving to place a stay on her Aug. 7 ruling that canceled the Prince William Digital Gateway over exactly that issue. Irving voided the Digital Gateway rezonings because she said the three legal advertisements the county placed ahead of the rezoning votes on the Digital Gateway did not comply with both state and local laws.
Free Lance-Star
(August 28, 2025)
The Stafford Board of Supervisors agreed on Tuesday night, after a 4-hour discussion, to hold a joint public hearing with the Planning Commission in October to discuss data center regulations.
Gulf Times
(August 26, 2025)
Area 2 Farms’ Arlington operation is partly automated, with soil-filled containers rotating some 18 feet to the ceiling. The crops get artificial LED light, water and nutrients on a regular schedule, with a handful of workers inspecting for pests, seeding new containers and harvesting. The company moved two years ago into the former paper warehouse, where it has been growing dozens of types of crops including greens, herbs and root vegetables for weekly distribution to about 300 family subscribers.
WTOP News
(August 24, 2025)
The health department is urging residents not to approach wild or stray animals, and to make sure pets are up to date on rabies vaccinations. Rabies can be deadly, and is easily spread through bites or scratches, the health department said.
Richmond BizSense
(August 28, 2025)
On Wednesday morning, Google made waves in Chesterfield with the announcement of plans for a sizable data center project next to Meadowville Technology Park. By Wednesday evening, it had made an even bigger splash across the county. In a matter of less than 12 hours the tech giant revealed its ties to three code-named developments: Project Peanut near Meadowville, Project Skye in Moseley and Project Loch near Westchester Commons.
Cardinal News
(August 27, 2025)
If voters approve its creation, the electric authority would not replace residents getting their electricity from Appalachian Power or Old Dominion Power, both of which serve Wise County. Rather, it would work directly with large industries that want to come to the county and build their own power plants because they require lots of electricity, Wise County Administrator Mike Hatfield said.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
(August 26, 2025)
The Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors held a public hearing for another massive data center complex during this week's meeting. Earlier this month the county Planning Commission recommended approval of rezoning for the Hunters Ridge data center project from rural and mixed-use to industrial. The applicant, AREP SOF III HRS LLC, wants to build a 2.278 million-square-foot data center campus on a portion of a 73-acre parcel at the terminus of Cosner Drive in the Berkeley and Lee Hill districts, off of U.S. 17.
Government Technology
(August 26, 2025)
Since the announcement that Google is considering building a data center in Botetourt County, questions have swirled about how a project of that scale could impact the region’s utilities — especially water.
Bay Journal
(August 26, 2025)
Virginia’s offshore wind project has avoided obstacles posed by President Trump’s order to cancel some offshore wind leases, but it has not ducked the impact of new tariffs. Dominion Energy’s CEO Bob Blue told investors on Aug. 1 that the administration’s tariffs would increase the cost of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project by $506 million. That’s on top of an increase of approximately $900 million in February, when PJM Interconnection increased the cost of the transmission upgrades required to safely connect the offshore wind installation with the regional power grid.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
(August 25, 2025)
The kayaking and whitewater rafting event, put on via a partnership between RVA Paddlesports, James River Outdoor Coalition (JROC) and local digital production studio Neon Ghost, sought to advocate for access to Pipeline Trail, which is currently closed to the public.
Bisnow
(August 25, 2025)
Data center campus developer Diode Ventures has scrapped its plans for a 515-acre development near Richmond, Virginia, the latest major data center project to be derailed by community opposition in the country’s fastest-growing data center market.
Free Lance-Star
(August 24, 2025)
As elected and appointed officials address the potential impact of data-center development in Stafford County — where projects totaling almost 40 million square feet of space are on the table — another player has emerged in the discussion. Protect Stafford is a grassroots group that began when residents off Courthouse Road learned of a plan to turn 1,042 acres around them into the GWV Data Center. If approved by the county, residential and agricultural property would be rezoned into heavy industrial to accommodate 7.9 million square feet of data-center buildings.
The Roanoke Times
(August 24, 2025)
Water is used in data centers to cool equipment. A draft agreement between the county and the water authority estimated that the potential data center campus could require between 2 million and 8 million gallons of water each day. Botetourt County would be responsible for the entire cost of the water supply project up to $100 million, and it would be responsible for a portion of the cost up to $300 million, according to the agreement.
CBS News
(August 23, 2025)
The animals that live on the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's sprawling 32,000 acres in Northern Virginia are connected by one thing: the threat of extinction. Tucked away in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, more than 20 species at risk of extinction, including Mongolia's Przewalski's horse, which disappeared from the wild at the end of the 1960s, live on the institute's grounds. There are red pandas, maned wolves, and clouded leopards, to name a few more.
Free Lance-Star
(August 23, 2025)
As the summer season begins to wind down, colorful insects and Nymphaeaceae are among the sights to be taken in around the Fredericksburg area – a photo essay.
Virginia Mercury
(August 22, 2025)
The State Corporation Commission is taking extra time to sift through public feedback before deciding whether Virginia Natural Gas (VNG) can move forward with a $90 million compressor station planned near a historically Black neighborhood in Chesapeake. The project is designed to prevent pressure drops in gas lines during periods of peak demand, typically on the coldest winter days.
AP News
(August 21, 2025)
The factory, which is set to resume operations in the coming months, will face at least 90 days of heightened monitoring and inspections by federal Food Safety and Inspection Service officials. The change aims to “ensure the establishment consistently and effectively implements its corrected food safety plans,” USDA officials said in a statement, and calls for stricter enforcement if lapses occur.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
(August 21, 2025)
The board voted against a rezoning proposal made by an entity called Flowers Solar LLC, which wanted to build a relatively small, 20-megawatt solar farm. Though demand for electricity continues to mount in Virginia with the construction of data centers, many residents are hesitant to sacrifice rural real estate. Residents often say their land should not be devoted to powering data centers in Northern Virginia.
Environment Energy Leader
(August 27, 2025)
The Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) unveiled Virginians for a Smarter Digital Future on August 18, 2025, empowering communities to understand and act on the growing impacts of data center expansion in Virginia. “Developers inundate residents and lawmakers with short‑term benefits while omitting long‑term costs—especially rising electric bills,” said Chris Miller, PEC president. “This should be a kitchen table issue for every Virginian.”
This clip includes information about the Piedmont Environmental Council's launch of Virginians for a Smarter Digital Future.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
(August 26, 2025)
"Throughout these last 20 years, I’ve been a Dominion Energy customer. I’ve experienced my fair share of energy rate hikes, and I’ve spent many long nights reworking my budget accordingly. I earn just enough to provide a stable life for my family, but not a dollar more. Now Dominion is proposing a proposed 13% rate increase over the next two years. I don’t know how I or my neighbors are going to afford these added costs. I’ve seen my energy bill go from $150 to $210 over the last three years, and this rate hike would bring my bill up to $240. These constant upcharges forced me to ask Dominion to help set up a payment plan. This time around, it would be challenging to live without hundreds of dollars a year that could’ve gone toward feeding my grandkids, paying down my mortgage, or saving up to pay for surprise bills."
WFXR
(August 26, 2025)
The Eastern black rail was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 2020. Officials are seeking the submission of any information that enhances the necessary understanding of the species’ biology, threats, recovery needs, and related implementation issues or concerns. This aims to ensure they have assembled, considered, and incorporated the best available scientific and commercial information into the draft recovery plan for this species.
Virginia Business
(August 25, 2025)
After the Trump administration has ordered a halt to construction of a nearly complete $4 billion offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut, it’s reasonable to wonder whether Dominion Energy’s $10.9 billion Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project off the coast of Virginia Beach could be in similar peril.
Prince William Times
(August 23, 2025)
A recent survey finds 73% of Virginians believe the state lacks affordable homes, with support for easing construction rules and boosting smaller housing options.
Cardinal News
(August 22, 2025)
We know a lot about data centers. What they are: warehouse-style buildings ranging up to supercenter size. What they do: house computers, servers and networking equipment to store and transmit data. Where they are: in the commonwealth, mostly, where NoVa hosts an estimated 35% of all the planet’s data centers. And what they require: more power and water than most commercial structures to support nonstop operations.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
(August 22, 2025)
Investing in homegrown clean energy is the most affordable, fastest path forward. Solar, wind and battery storage are consistently more affordable and faster to build than gas-fired power plants, which also carry a lifetime guarantee of price instability and rate hikes. Gas prices are unpredictable, tied to global markets and the vagaries of geopolitics. Virginians deserve better than being locked into that rate hike rollercoaster, writes Delegate Richard "Rip" Sullivan (D - County of Fairfax)
Cardinal News
(August 22, 2025)
Data center companies are some of the biggest and most powerful businesses in the world. They are using some of their political might to ensure that they don’t have to pay for all this new electrical infrastructure themselves.
Renew Northeast
(August 27, 2025)
The study, prepared on behalf of RENEW Northeast and released today, comes on the heels of a ISO New England report that highlighted a 67% increase in the price of energy in New England between 2024 and 2025 due to an unprecedented 112% rise in the price of natural gas – the primary resource providing the region’s electricity.
Time Magazine
(August 27, 2025)
There is little to no debate that American consumers will continue to pay more for electricity in the coming years. Demand for power is growing rapidly, in large part because of increased electrification, a growing manufacturing footprint, and new energy-guzzling data centers built to train and run AI models. Meanwhile, the power supply and aging grid struggle to keep up. Inadequate supply and growing demand mean higher costs. The Trump Administration’s approach to energy isn’t helping. President Trump, citing reliability, signed an Executive Order requiring that some old and costly coal-fired power plants stay running, and his budget bill nixes subsidies that helped reduce the cost of some new plants.
Heatmap
(August 27, 2025)
While wind is the largest source of renewable electricity generation in the United States today, high construction costs and local opposition have more recently stymied the industry’s continued expansion. The new presidential administration — suspicious of wind’s reliability and place in the American energy mix — has also been doing its very best to stunt any future growth in the sector.
Canary Media
(August 27, 2025)
The Trump admin is trying to claw back funding for low-income solar, but projects can still save residents money if local financing fills in the gaps.
Quartz
(August 26, 2025)
For over a year, AI was gospel. Now, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and regulators are asking the same question: What if it’s not?
Latitude Media
(August 26, 2025)
Renewable energy essentially “broke even” in the 2025 session, with Republican-led states – including Arkansas, Louisiana, Montana, Oklahoma and Texas – passing bills that make it harder to site renewables projects; and both Democrat- and GOP-controlled states passing more permissive siting policies, including Indiana, Ohio and Oregon. When viewed more broadly, state-level activity during the legislative session was largely negative for clean energy advancements: 49% of all proposed bills attempted to restrict clean energy siting, including by requiring more local approvals, altering local zoning authority and expanding setback requirements.
The Wall Street Journal
(August 25, 2025)
Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI President Greg Brockman are among those helping launch and fund Leading the Future, which hopes to use campaign donations and digital ads to advocate for select AI policies and oppose candidates who the group believes will stifle the industry at large. One of its goals is to push back against a movement backed by some other tech titans that focuses on regulating AI models before they get too powerful and create catastrophic risks for society.
Heatmap
(August 25, 2025)
U.S. renewables investment plunges by 36% this year. The drop “reflects a rush of construction toward the end of last year as developers sought to lock in lucrative tax credits, followed by a sharp drop this year as policy conditions worsened,” the report stated. The European Union, on the other hand, ratcheted up spending on renewables by 63% — or nearly $30 billion — in the first half of this year compared to the second half of 2024.
Shift Key (Heatmap Podcast)
(August 25, 2025)
Nothing matters without the grid, which is how electricity gets to you, the consumer. Who actually keeps the grid running? And what decisions did they make an hour ago, a day ago, a week ago, five years ago to make sure that it would still be running right this second? This week on Shift Key, Rob and Jesse chat with Mark Rothleder, senior vice president and chief operating officer of the California Independent System Operator, which manages about 80% of the state’s electricity flow. As the longest-serving employee at CAISO, he’s full of institutional knowledge. How does he manage the resource mix throughout the day? What happens in a blackout? And how do you pronounce CAISO in the first place?
The Wall Street Journal
(August 25, 2025)
AI companies are raising prices and alienating users, and the stocks are overvalued.
The overall U.S. economy is being bolstered less by spending to use cloud services and more by spending that increases cloud infrastructure. As a percentage of gross domestic product, this spending “has already exceeded spending on telecom and internet infrastructure from the dot-com boom — and it’s still growing.” Expectations of future AI profits are not only driving spending on AI cloud infrastructure but also eye-popping valuations for AI startups and salaries for AI talent.
The Washington Post
(August 24, 2025)
A group of Oregon arborists who search for “champion” trees tried to save the world’s tallest Douglas fir. The tree held a special significance for the band of Pacific Northwest big-tree enthusiasts who hunt for “champions” — the tallest and girthiest exemplars of the iconic evergreen on the west side of the Cascades.
The Washington Post
(August 24, 2025)
In recent decades, sweat-inducing temperatures have been arriving earlier and ending later in the year. An analysis of U.S. weather data shared with The Washington Post shows which places are experiencing notably longer summer seasons than they were three decades ago. Temperatures are spiking to levels typically seen in June earlier than expected and lingering longer at the end of the season.
Inside Climate News
(August 24, 2025)
After seeing residents of nearby Bessemer, Alabama, get blindsided by a proposal for a massive data center, with little public disclosure and public officials silenced by non-disclosure agreements, Wilsonville residents sprang into action when word got out that a developer was looking to build a similar data center in their town. “That’s going to be their legacy, to potentially destroy a small town,” said one resident of the landowner and developers of a proposed hyperscale data center.
Data Center Dynamics
(August 22, 2025)
Opposition to the so-called ‘Project Cumulus’ data center led to the applicant CRG Cumulus LLC withdrawing their proposal the day before the St. Charles City Council meeting, which was held on August 19. Proximity to residential areas, the unknown user of the data center, and the impact on water and energy were all cited as reasons for opposition.
E&E News
(August 22, 2025)
The request reflects growing angst among renewable industry advocates that the Trump administration is hindering development of the fastest-growing energy sources during a period of rising power demand that is already driving up electricity rates.
Canary Media
(August 22, 2025)
Ending support for renewables and keeping fossil fuel power plants are the wrong tactics for addressing skyrocketing electricity rates
Canary Media
(August 22, 2025)
For two decades, thousands of farmers have installed money-saving solar panels with help from the federal REAP program. Trump’s USDA is choking off that resource.
Financial Times
(August 22, 2025)
Donald Trump’s attacks on renewable energy have thrown the sector into chaos, prompting industry concerns that the US will struggle to meet surging demand to power the artificial intelligence revolution. Clean energy projects worth $18.6bn have been cancelled this year, compared with just $827mn in 2024, according to Atlas Public Policy’s Clean Economy Tracker. Investment announcements fell by nearly 20 per cent to $15.8bn this year, compared to $20.9bn in the same period in 2024.
The Washington Post
(August 28, 2025)
An industry based on insects’ natural recycling abilities could help limit the environmental damage from our food system.
Ember
(August 26, 2025)
There has been a major pick-up in solar panel imports into Africa over the last 12 months – a shift that is likely to impact almost every country on the continent.
Grist
(August 22, 2025)
A new paper in the journal Nature catalogs how several “abrupt changes,” like the precipitous loss of sea ice over the last decade, are unfolding in Antarctica and its surrounding waters, reinforcing one another and threatening to send the continent past the point of no return — and flood coastal cities everywhere as the sea rises several feet.
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