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The Wall Street Journal

Oil Is Back In, Climate Is Out at a Marquee Energy Conference

By Ed Ballard 10/08/26

In 2020, after it had attracted attention from climate protesters, the Oil & Money conference in London got a rebrand. The idea was to reflect a new mission for this annual gathering of industry bigwigs:…

The Wall Street Journal

Google and Constellation Energy Strike a Sweeping Nuclear-Power Deal

By Jennifer Hiller 10/06/26

Google and Constellation Energy CEG 0.65%increase; up pointing triangle agreed to a sweeping, 20-year nuclear-power deal that would boost output at 11 existing reactors, the latest tie-up between the tech and energy industries to power…

Bloomberg

Tesla’s EV Sales Top Estimates With Car Business Stabilizing

By Kara Carlson 10/02/26

Tesla Inc. reported better-than-expected sales for the third quarter, a sign of stability for the company’s core business at a challenging moment for the electric vehicle market.

Inside Climate News

Meta Announces Large Solar Purchase Agreement in Texas, But It’s Powering Some Data Centers With Gas

By Lauren Nutall 09/30/26

Apex Clean Energy and Meta have entered into a power purchase agreement that allows the technology company to financially benefit from energy generated from a solar project in Gonzales County, Texas.

The Crucial Years

Amazon Crime

By Bill McKibben 09/29/26

Return with me now to the thrilling days of yesteryear. In 2020, Jeff Bezos announced that Amazon had paid a few hundred million dollars for the naming rights to the new hockey rink in Seattle.…

Distilled

Eight New Gas Plants Will Power Amazon’s Next Wave of Data Centers

By Michael Thomas 09/24/26

In the spring of 2024, Amazon began construction on what would soon become the world’s largest data center, located in New Carlisle, Indiana. Just 18 months later, the company declared the first buildings operational with…

Yale.edu

Software Developers on Climate Change, AI, and Sustainable Software: A survey of GitHub users, Summer 2026

By Grace Vorreuter and Others 09/23/26

This report is based on findings from a survey of GitHub users conducted jointly by GitHub, Inc. and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC). Interview dates: June 30 – August 9, 2026. Interviews:…

Capital & Main

Pennsylvania’s Amazon Data Center Boom Is Fueled by a Lucrative Tax Break

By Audrey Carleton 09/15/26

After vowing to spend $20 billion on data centers across Pennsylvania, Amazon is now quietly reaping the rewards of a controversial, yet lucrative state tax exemption, records show.

Inside Climate News

Rooftop Solar Is Having a Rough One

By Dan Gearino 08/27/26

Rooftop solar installers feel like a dog that’s been repeatedly kicked. President Donald Trump has made solar more expensive—or at least slowed the long-term decline in costs—by imposing tariffs on imported photovoltaic panels and other…

Distilled

Why Amazon Is Building One of the Largest Solar Projects in America

By Michael Thomas 08/26/26

Last winter, Puget Sound Energy, one of the largest utilities in the Pacific Northwest, tried to purchase one of America’s largest solar and storage projects out of bankruptcy. Facing a power squeeze, the utility saw…

Bloomberg

World’s AI Giants Are Preparing to Come Clean on Climate Impact

By Olivia Raimonde and Others 08/12/26

AI’s biggest startups, OpenAI and Anthropic, have so far been largely silent about their impact on the climate. Today’s edition details how a new California regulation is likely to force the companies to publicly account…

The New York Times

New Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

By Hiroko Tabuchi 08/08/26

Amazon is investing in a large-scale natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, the company confirmed on Friday, a facility that could become the largest single source of climate pollution…

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Distilled

Scoop: Amazon Is Behind One of the Largest Planned Gas Power Plants in the US

By Michael Thomas 08/07/26

Amazon is backing what could be the largest natural gas power plant ever built in the United States.

The New York Times

Fossil Fuel Executives Cash In

By Claire Brown 07/28/26

Top U.S. oil and gas executives have sold hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of stock in their own companies since the Iran war triggered a supply crunch that sent energy prices soaring, according to…

Bloomberg

Wall Street Is Picking the Winners and Losers From Extreme Heat

By Laura Millan and Others 07/23/26

Extreme weather events that disrupt one business can be an opportunity for another. Wall Street is increasingly focused on deciphering which companies or industries are poised to benefit, and which lose out.

Heatmap

A New Guesstimate for Corporate AI Emissions

By Emily Pontecorvo 07/22/26

With companies now rapidly adding artificial intelligence into their products and using it across their workstreams,it stands to reason that all that extra energy use might show up in their climate accounting.

Heatmap

Microsoft Sustainability Chief Hounded by Protestors at Seattle Climate Week

By Katie Brigham 07/17/26

Protestors interrupted one of the final sessions of PNW Climate Week — a conference that brings together climate leaders across Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia — objecting to Microsoft’s rising carbon emissions from data centers…

Bloomberg

Climate Initiatives Lose Funding Battle to AI, Cybersecurity

By Olivia Raimonde 07/15/26

Corporate America is struggling to meet its climate goals as sustainability initiatives lose out on funding to competing priorities such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and digital transformation.

Bloomberg

Meat Giant JBS Pulls Back From 2040 Net-Zero Emissions Goal

By Ilena Peng 07/08/26

JBS NV, the world’s largest meatpacker, is stepping back from a 2040 net-zero emissions goal, dropping targets for the indirect emissions that make up the bulk of its environmental footprint.

Los Angeles Times

AI boom blows up Big Tech’s climate promises

By Olivia Raimonde and Spencer Soper 07/02/26

The greenhouse gas emissions of Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google spiked in 2025, pointing to a growing problem for the hyperscalers: reconciling their climate goals with the massive amount of energy required to power…

Propublica

How the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself

06/25/26

An investigation by ProPublica and Drilled has found that fossil fuel companies have been funding climate research at prestigious U.S. universities for more than 30 years. Their support has helped amplify the work of scientists…

Heatmap

Are We Too Obsessed With Carbon Accounting?

By Emily Pontecorvo 06/15/26

When Jane Flegal was working in market developement for Frontier Climate,a $1 billion initiative to catalyze advances in carbon removal,she had what she called a "radicalizing experience."

Heatmap

5 Key Changes to SBTi’s Net Zero Standard

By Emily Pontecorvo 06/11/26

Companies have a new rulebook for what constitutes credible climate action. The Science Based Targets Initiative, an organization that seeks to align

Heated

Can Patagonia™ own Patagonia?

By Emily Atkin 06/03/26

How can Patagonia, the brand, own the name of a geographical region? That’s the most common question I keep seeing asked about Patagonia™’s controversial lawsuit against Pattie Gonia, the environmental activist and drag queen.

BOF

Burberry Delays Net Zero Emissions Target by 10 Years to 2050

By Bloomberg 05/30/26

Burberry Group Plc postponed its goal of cutting emissions to net zero by a decade to 2050, in a setback for the British luxury brand’s bid to become an industry leader in sustainability. The company,…

DeSmog

TikTok’s Climate Pledges Collide with Sponsorship of Climate Deniers

By Rei Takver 05/22/26

Despite social media giant TikTok’s ambitious campaigns to combat climate denial, go carbon neutral, and support sustainable advertising on its wildly popular video platform, the company sponsored a Canadian right-wing conference featuring a retinue of…

Heatmap

Does Microsoft’s Clean Energy Pullback Actually Matter?

By Emily Pontecorvo 05/08/26

Microsoft celebrated a "milestone achievement"earlier this year,when it announced that it had successfully matched 100% of its 2025 electricity usage with renewable energy.

Bloomberg

Microsoft in Talks to Ax Energy Pledge Amid Data Center Boom

By Alastair Marsh and Brody Ford 05/06/26

Microsoft Corp. is in discussions to shelve one of the industry’s most ambitious clean-energy targets as it tries to remove hurdles that could hold it back in the race to power data centers, according to…

Trellis

After SBTi reset, some wonder if targets are still science-aligned

By Jim Giles 04/30/26

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has quietly released an update to its rules that allows companies to set significantly less ambition near-term goals. The move will likely enable more companies to set SBTi-approved targets,…

E+E Leader

Investors Now Scrutinize Net-Zero Pledges as Financial Data

By Marybeth Collins 04/15/26

For several years, the investor conversation about environmental commitments was largely about disclosure: are you publishing a sustainability report, do you have a net-zero target, are you aligned with recognized frameworks. The question was essentially…

E+E Leader

Scope 3 Emissions Are Now a Legal Exposure, Not Just Data

By Marybeth Collins 04/15/26

Scope 3 emissions — the greenhouse gases generated across a company's full value chain, from purchased goods and services to logistics, use of sold products, and end-of-life treatment — account for approximately 88% of total…

Environment+Energy Leader

Environmental Pledges Are Now a Legal Liability

By Marybeth Collins 04/13/26

There is a particular kind of corporate risk that doesn't announce itself. It accumulates quietly — in press releases, in sustainability reports, in investor presentations — until a regulatory deadline or a court filing turns…

Bloomberg

Microsoft Staff Tell Carbon Removal Projects That Deals Paused

By Alastair Marsh 04/11/26

Staff at Microsoft Corp. have told some developers of carbon removal credits that the company is pausing what is currently the world’s biggest program for financing the extraction of CO2 from the atmosphere.

Trellis

How climate standards are slowing down corporate decarbonization

By Lucy Almond 04/01/26

Under the second Trump adminisration, the U.S. government has effective abandoned its traditional federal role of safeguarding the environment and pushing businesses to respond to the growing threats of climate change.

Environment+Energy Leader

Environmental Risk Is Now an Operational Problem

By Marybeth Collins 03/30/26

For most of the past decade, environmental risk occupied a fairly comfortable corner of the organization. EHS teams tracked it. Sustainability leads reported on it. And leadership heard about it mostly during annual reviews or…

Trellis

Google, McKinsey and Meta back project to reforest degraded Appalachian lands

By Jim Giles 03/30/26

Google, McKinsey and Meta have agreed to purchase more than 130,000 tons of carbon removal credits generated by the reforestation of degraded Appalachian land.

Trellis

How to dodge the imminent net-zero mass failure

By Solitaire Townsend 03/23/26

There’s a moment approaching in corporate climate action that very few people are willing to name aloud: a reckoning of net zero. For the past few decades, companies have announced climate targets with impressive ambition.

Trellis

Why target fulfillment is the wrong measure of corporate climate ambition

By Robert Höglund 03/16/26

Corporate climate reporting is splitting emission inventories and corporate interventions. On the one hand, there are emissions inventories tied to a company’s activities, from its own operations, its supply chain and the use of its…

Heatmap

Utilities Are — Cautiously! — Learning to Love Startups

By Katie Brigham 03/10/26

Electric utilities aren't exactly known as innovators.Until recently,that caution seemed perfectly logical-arguably even preferable.

ESG Today

LSEG Launches New Sustainability Ratings and Analytics Solutions Suite

By Mark Segal 03/09/26

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) announced today the launch of LSEG Sustainability Ratings and Data, a new suite of ESG scores and sustainability analytics, aimed at enabling investors and financial institutions to measure how…

Bloomberg

Besieged Berkshire Utility Tries to Rewrite Who Pays for Wildfires

By Michelle Ma and Alexandre Rajbhandari 02/27/26

When smoke rapidly engulfed his home in Oregon, retired firefighter Fred Cuozzo rushed away in his pickup truck and nearly died from swerving around flames. All but one structure on his rural 16-acre lot was…

Heatmap

Shine Technologies Raises Nearly a Quarter of a Billion Dollars for Commercial Fusion

By Alexander C. Kaufman 02/26/26

Greg Piefer thinks nearly all his rivals in the race to commercialize fusion are doing it backward.

Trellis

Microsoft, Autodesk and SwissRe among companies with highest internal carbon fees

By Jim Giles 02/26/26

A survey of more than 220 companies with internal carbon prices (ICPs) has revealed the range of ways in which this powerful yet relatively little-used emissions reduction strategy is being deployed.

Environment Energy Leader

Why Investing in Nature is Becoming a Business Necessity

By Bill Ulfelder 02/24/26

Climate change and environmental degradation are no longer matters of hypothetical concern or social conscience for many companies, but day-to-day operational risks. Businesses across sectors are trying to function in places where natural systems are…

Heatmap

Inside Form Energy’s Big Google Data Center Deal

By Katie Brigham 02/24/26

Long-duration energy storage startup Form Energy on Tuesday announced plans to deploy what would be the largest battery in the world by energy capacity:an iron-air system capable of delivering 300 megawatts of power at once…

Environment Energy Leader

Why Energy, Compliance, and Procurement Models Are Misaligned

By Marybeth Collins 02/23/26

Most executive teams are not underestimating volatility. They are tracking energy markets. Monitoring regulatory shifts. Reviewing supplier exposure. Reforecasting capital costs.

Sustainable Views

Business cannot stay silent on American democracy and climate

By Deborah McNamara 02/23/26

US companies face daily ethical dilemmas. Yet many are staying silent — or responding without moral clarity — to democratic backsliding, attacks on due process and the rule of law, and climate denialism.

Trellis

Voluntary climate action isn’t so voluntary anymore

By Kaya Axelsson 02/23/26

For a decade, corporate climate action has been described as largely “voluntary.” But that’s starting to change.

Drilled News

People Never Suck in Just One Way: On Epstein, Climate, and the Hubris of the Ultra-Wealthy

02/22/26

As an investigative reporter with a thing for documents, normally a massive release of previously hidden emails and texts would be exciting for me, but the Epstein files are as deliberately disorganized as they are…

Trellis

A detente is needed between the nature and tech communities. Here’s why

By Lucy Almond 02/11/26

For the past few years, I’ve spent a lot of time working at the intersection of nature and technology. That work included helping to build the category often referred to as “nature tech” — an…

Trellis

The biggest climate risk right now isn’t denial. It’s silence

By Joel Makower 02/10/26

For all the noise surrounding climate — the backlash, the culture wars, the political theatrics — here’s a surprising truth: most Americans haven’t changed their minds at all.

Reuters

Companies told to protect nature now or face extinction themselves

By Simon Jessop 02/09/26

Biodiversity loss is emerging as a systemic risk to the global economy and financial stability, a landmark report said on Monday, urging companies to act now or potentially face extinction themselves.

BBC

Businesses face extinction unless they protect nature, major report warns

By Helen Briggs and Gwyndaf Hughes 02/09/26

Businesses risk extinction themselves unless they protect and restore the natural world, scientists across the globe are warning.

Trellis

3 agricultural initiatives to shore up food supply chains

By Carolyn Ching 02/02/26

Last year, a slew of extreme weather events disrupted agricultural operations, some costing hundreds of billions in damages and financial hardship to farmers and ranchers. Uncertainty loomed amid evolving global regulations and trade policy, and…

Wired

Meta Is Making a Big Bet on Nuclear With Oklo

By Alexander C. Kaufman 01/09/26

There are two ways for tech companies to invest in nuclear power right now. One is to buy power from traditional reactors that are already built, either by purchasing electricity from the plants directly or…

Business groups ask Supreme Court to pause California climate reporting laws in emergency appeal

By Lindsay Whitehurst and Sophie Austin 11/16/25

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause new California laws expected to require thousands of companies to report emissions and climate-risk information.

The New York Times

Missing at U.N.’s Climate Meeting: American Executives

By Ivan Penn and David Gelles 11/12/25

Top U.S. government officials are skipping the annual United Nations climate summit for the first time in 30 years. And many American corporate executives appear to be following their lead.

Bloomberg

Amazon Tests GM EV Delivery Vans in Bid to Meet Climate Goals

By Matt Day and David Welch 09/12/25

Amazon.com Inc. has been quietly evaluating General Motors Co.’s BrightDrop electric van, evidence that the e-commerce company continues to explore options to reduce the carbon emissions of its sprawling delivery operation.

Trellis

3 striking takeaways from Walmart’s 2025 ESG update

By Heather Clancy 09/08/25

Walmart’s latest environmental report confirms what it warned of in December: the world’s largest retailer won’t meet its 2025 goal to cut the carbon footprint from its retail operations and energy consumption by 35 percent…

Trellis

Why Mars plans to more than triple the amount of renewable energy it buys

By Heather Clancy 08/25/25

Food, pet nutrition and candy maker Mars set a goal in 2014 to match 100 percent of annual electricity use at its offices and factories — roughly 2 terawatt-hours in 2025 — with contracts for…

TRELLIS

Google’s Kate Brandt plays a central role in its AI strategy

By Heather Clancy 08/05/25

Google’s chief sustainability officer, Kate Brandt, isn’t just responsible for the company’s emissions reduction and environmental conservation agenda — a mission complicated by a planned $85 billion investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure in 2025 alone.

New York Post

21 states warn JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon, BlackRock’s Larry Fink to scrap ‘woke’ environmental goals

By Taylor Herzlich 07/29/25

Nearly two dozen states on Tuesday warned CEOs of the nation’s largest financial firms – including BlackRock’s Larry Fink and JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon – to scrap “woke investing” programs focused on environmental goals if they…

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