Climate

Four stories from this week in energy and climate politics that, taken together, tell you exactly where the transition stands and who is fighting over its direction. This Week in Energy Politics: Big Oil Profits, Surviving Clean Energy Cuts, and the Data Center Backlash ⚡ SAN Energy & Climate Report Trump vs. Exxon, $600 Billion

The energy headlines of any given week in 2026 can feel contradictory, almost deliberately so, as though the news itself is designed to make it difficult to locate a coherent direction in the relationship between American politics, global oil markets, and the climate transition that the science has been demanding for decades. One story describes

The summer of 2026 is not a theoretical warning about what climate change might eventually look like. It is the warning made real, playing out in real time across three continents, in meteorological data, in hospital emergency rooms overwhelmed by heat casualties, in wildfire smoke columns visible from space, and in the quiet arithmetic of

For decades, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has served as one of the United States’ most important energy security tools, a massive emergency stockpile designed to protect the nation from supply disruptions, geopolitical instability, and sudden energy market shocks. Traditionally associated with Gulf Coast storage facilities and national emergency planning, the reserve has rarely become a

As another Atlantic hurricane season begins, the United States finds itself confronting a convergence of challenges that extend far beyond weather forecasts and emergency preparedness. Questions surrounding energy policy, climate resilience, political leadership, regulatory oversight, and disaster response are increasingly intersecting in ways that will shape the nation’s future for years to come. From the

For years, America’s climate debate largely revolved around abstract timelines, emissions targets, global summits, and long-term projections about the future of the planet. But the political conversation has now entered a far more volatile phase — one where climate policy, inflation, electricity prices, food costs, corporate utility power, and everyday economic anxiety are colliding directly

For years, data centers existed largely out of public view — anonymous industrial facilities powering cloud storage, social media platforms, streaming services, financial systems, and the invisible architecture of the modern internet. Most people rarely thought about where digital infrastructure physically lived, how much energy it consumed, or what happened environmentally when massive computational systems