
Umair Irfan
Former correspondent
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Environmental activists are gearing up for another legal fight.
Musk’s electric truck has a 500-mile range and is sleeker than a supercar.


But dire finances stand in the way of cleaner grid.


Another outage stemming from a line repaired by Whitefish plunged the island back into darkness.


A congressional investigation revealed how the island’s public utility bungled its largest grid repair contract.


“Like promoting tobacco at a cancer summit.”


Delegates from Syria made the announcement at climate talks in Bonn, Germany.


A cool — and frightening — illustration of rising CO2 levels.


State officials want to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling to close a budget deficit.


The Climate Science Special Report is full of forceful statements about humanity’s role in rising temperatures and their severe threat to the United States.