The Trump administration has spent $3.825 billion in taxpayer money propping up coal plants the market had already condemned — and working Americans are paying higher energy bills to cover the debt.
The ocean has absorbed 90% of the excess heat humanity has generated since industrialization. In 2025, marine heatwave days tripled compared to the early 1990s. The buffer that bought us time is failing — and the communities paying the price are the ones least responsible for creating the crisis.
Polling shows two-thirds of Americans support climate action — a number that hasn't moved even as the White House dismantles climate policy. The collapse in press coverage isn't a reflection of public opinion. It's a decision, and it has beneficiaries.
The world's largest banks increased fossil fuel financing by 8 percent last year, committing $906 billion to oil, gas, and coal projects — even as they dismantled the voluntary climate commitments they had made in public. A new report documents not a failure of implementation, but a failure of the e
The administration is using emergency wartime authority to send $700 million to coal plants already on the industry's closure lists. The law was never designed for this — and that's precisely why it was chosen.
The White House is invoking a 1950 Cold War statute to fund petroleum refining, coal plants, and gas pipelines — using the Iran war as legal cover for a fossil fuel expansion that environmental review would otherwise slow. The emergency ends. The infrastructure doesn't.
Nations with solar infrastructure and EV adoption are weathering the Iran oil crisis with minimal disruption, while fossil fuel-dependent economies face collapse as prices surge past $140 a barrel.