Steven Mufson

OPEC Plus juggles oil disruptions as Biden eyes more supplies on the eve of his visit to Saudi Arabia.

The House Science Committee calls for tougher surveillance amid evidence of super-emitters and undetected leaks in the vast Permian Basin.

Three big oil companies announced they would drop the exploration leases they won for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge after spending years to get access to the sensitive region in northern Alaska.

Russia continues to reap large profits from its oil, even as the West seeks to punish the country with new sanctions

IAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi said radiation levels at trenches dug outside the Chernobyl nuclear site by Russian soldiers were elevated but within safety limits. Still, he said, they were “clearly not a place to have a picnic.”

The global surface average for carbon dioxide during 2021 rose more than 2 parts per million for the 10th consecutive year, NOAA said.

Even as it rains missiles onto Ukraine, Russia is still transporting one-third of the gas it sends to Europe through Ukraine’s state-owned gas company.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink in an annual letter said he will not seek divestment of fossil fuel firms and does not see businesses as “climate police.” The letter will disappoint shareholder activists who were hoping that BlackRock, which frequently controls the largest block of shares in public companies, would use its clout to press companies to take steps to slow down climate change.

Amazon’s retail business in 2020 generated 599 million pounds of plastic packaging waste, a 29 percent increase from the year before, according to estimates by environmental group Oceana.

The House Science Committee is demanding data on methane leaks from oil and gas firms to try to slash a climate pollutant that the U.S. has pledged to cut by 30 percent by the end of the decade.

Most of the world’s insurance companies have decided to stop coverage for coal, oil and natural gas, a move that would make it virtually impossible for fossil fuel projects to obtain financing. But a handful of insurers, including AIG, continue to cover all kinds of firms.

Citing the potential for financial instability caused by climate change, the Biden administration has issued a report that urges financial regulatory agencies to bolster capabilities, widen disclosures and run “scenarios.” But the Financial Stability Oversight Council does not make specific instructions to agencies, likely to disappoint climate activists.

A group of philanthropists pledged $5 billion by 2030 to help conservation and protect biodiversity around the world.

A new report reveals that global power sector emissions rebounded in the first half of 2021, increasing from the lows seen a year earlier, so that emissions are now 5% above pre-pandemic levels. Rising global electricity demand in the first half of 2021 also outpaced growth in clean electricity, whi…

Representatives of discontented ExxonMobil shareholders have won a third seat on its board of directors.

ExxonMobil faces a shareholder rebellion over its approach to climate change, the composition of its board of directors, and its failure to bolster the value of the company, which was nudged out of the Dow Jones Industrial Average of major companies. Shareholder groups worried about climate change h…

The pathway to slower climate change is “narrow” but not impossible, says the International Energy Agency. The IEA calls it “perhaps the greatest challenge humankind has ever faced.” Solar installations would be equivalent to building the world’s largest solar park -- every day, the IEA said. By 2050, the IEA said, “global energy demand is around 8% smaller than today, but it serves an economy more than twice as big and a population with 2 billion more people.” And much much more of it is renew…

As part of his climate week, President Biden wants to convince private-finance firms to agree to net-zero targets and on directing capital to no-carbon projects.

The Biden administration and two South Korean makers of batteries for electric vehicles have reached a last-minute deal that will allow the twin new plants to open and run without limitations that the U.S. International Trade Commission had imposed.

The American Petroleum Institute, the top oil and gas lobbying group, backed the idea of carbon pricing, provided the Biden administration puts aside other regulations.