By Kiley Price

As Hurricane Helene strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico over the past few days—officially making landfall last night—thousands of government leaders, business representatives, nonprofit heads and guests met across New York City for Climate Week NYC, discussing ways to curb the emissions that fuel climate disasters.

By Jake Bolster

In the first full year since President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, clean energy jobs in the U.S. grew at a faster clip than jobs across the rest of the economy, according to a new report by a business nonprofit. But there are few signs of that expansion in Wyoming, long the nation’s largest purveyor of coal and a hotbed of fossil fuel development, where clean energy job growth has been halting. 

By Keerti Gopal, Jake Bolster

NEW YORK—Vicki Hollub, the CEO of Occidental Petroleum, had barely stepped on stage for her interview at the New York Times’ Climate Forward event when an audience member leapt up into her path. 

By Samantha Maldonado, THE CITY

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By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma

ROATÁN, Honduras—Years later, Luisa Connor and Vanessa Cárdenas would look back ruefully on the day foreigners visited their beachfront village with plans for a development next door. They had no idea the effort was backed by Silicon Valley billionaires who wanted to build a “startup city,” or that a relatively new Honduran law would allow them to establish this semi-autonomous enclave. They could not foresee they would lead a fight against it that would launch their village into national politics and prompt an international legal dispute, threatening to bankrupt the country. They thought it was just another hotel.

By Mathilde Augustin

Over the past few months, a string of large American asset managers have left Climate Action 100+, a global investor group created to ensure that the largest corporate emitters of greenhouse gases take action on climate change. Their departure coincides with intensifying political debate over sustainable investing, as a variety of Republicans have sought to crack down on what they call a “climate cartel.” 

By Dan Gearino

U.S. electric vehicle sales have slowed in 2024. So how long will this period last?

By Keaton Peters

GRANBURY, Texas—About 150 angry residents gathered in a conference center here on Monday for a public meeting hosted by the state environmental agency regarding Constellation Energy’s proposal to build a new 300-megawatt power plant alongside two existing power plants that border residential neighborhoods. 

By Dan Gearino

Politically Charged: Fifth in a series about how political polarization threatens the EV future. 

Story by Lisa Sorg, Inside Climate News and photos by Julia Wall, The Assembly

Gaslighting: First in a series published in partnership with The Assembly about opposition to a wave of new natural gas pipelines, power plants and storage facilities on the drawing board in North Carolina.