BRUSSELS, March 27 (Reuters) – European Union finance ministers will ​seek to coordinate on Friday their response to the energy price surge due to the Iran war, ensuring that ‌the measures aid the vulnerable and move Europe further away from fossil fuels, while keeping the fiscal cost and demand in check. Oil and gas prices…

(Reuters) – A rush by U.S. utilities and tech giants to snap up as many gas turbines as possible to boost local power output is causing a global shortage of gas-power equipment and may spur other power systems to fast-track cleaner alternatives. The amount of U.S. gas-fired capacity that is under construction has more than…

The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for artificial intelligence. Dozens of airplane-hangar-size warehouses packed with computing hardware will consume more power than all of Chicago. But it’s missing…

SoftBank Group is prepping to build a new AI data center in Ohio that could reach 10 GW of power demand and cost $30 billion to $40 billion for the computing infrastructure and a further $33 billion for a natural gas power plant, reports Bloomberg. When completed, the new site could be one of the…

A coalition of health and environmental groups including those from Wisconsin sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, Feb. 18, challenging the rescinding of a scientific finding that has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, according to a Feb. 18 article from Wisconsin Public Radio. A rule finalized by the…

More than three dozen Democratic senators have begun an independent inquiry into the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following a huge change in how the agency measures the health benefits of reducing air pollution that is widely seen as a major setback to US efforts to combat the climate crisis, according to a Feb. 14 story from The…

The EPA eliminated the legal basis for regulations aimed at restricting greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes and smokestacks that are heating the planet, according to Feb. 12 article from Politico. The repeal of the 2009 “endangerment finding” that served as the regulatory basis for a swath of rules limiting pollution from sources like cars, trucks…

Regional meeting accelerates action on air quality and health, according to a Feb. 12 article from The World Health Organization. The air we breathe connects us all: children walking to school, workers commuting to their jobs, elders stepping outside for fresh air. Yet for millions across Asia and the Pacific, that “fresh air” carries invisible dangers: particles and pollutants that lodge deep in the lungs, strain the…