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Mexico’s outgoing president put climate policy on the backburner. His mentee, incoming President Claudia Sheinbaum, talks a good game on renewables—but remains committed to oil and gas.

Mexico’s President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, an energy engineer and physicist by training, has published widely on the energy transition and greenhouse gas emissions as an environmental scientist. She has co-authored a U.N. climate report, and as Mexico City mayor, she installed solar power on a city market and electrified public transportation routes.

Mexico Elected a Climate Scientist. But Will She Be a Climate President?

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Global Scientists Anticipate Less Reliance on the United States in Future Carbon Monitoring

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With Trump’s budget knife still poised over NOAA’s climate research operations, international researchers see a reduced role for the nation that pioneered CO2 measurement.

This fall, when the World Meteorological Organization confirmed the grim news—a record 3.5 parts per million annual increase in the global concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere—there was a somber, unspoken backstory.

Global Scientists Anticipate Less Reliance on the US in Future Carbon Monitoring

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Virginia Regulators Approve First New Gas Plant Since Passage of Clean Economy Act

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Dominion Energy presented the Chesterfield peaker plant as an answer to ensuring grid reliability. Some residents and clean energy advocates disagree.

Dominion Energy’s proposal for a $1.47 billion natural gas plant in Chesterfield County aimed at meeting rising energy demands across the state has been approved by the State Corporation Commission.

Virginia Regulators Approve First New Gas Plant Since Passage of Clean Economy Act

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Homeowners Sue Oil Companies as Climate Damage Drives up Insurance Rates

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The class-action lawsuit is the first of its kind to target Big Oil over rising home insurance costs.

Two homeowners in Washington state who have seen sharp increases in their home insurance premiums in recent years have brought a new lawsuit against major oil and gas companies—the first of its kind aiming to hold Big Oil responsible for climate-related spikes in insurance costs.

Homeowners Sue Oil Companies as Climate Damage Drives up Insurance Rates

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