First of 30 oil lease sales planned for Gulf of Mexico draws $300 million from companiesOil firms bid over $300 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico. This marks the start of 30 planned sales to boost U.S. fossil fu...
11 Dec, 2025, 07.15 AM IST
With AI plan, Trump keeps chipping away at a foundational environmental lawThe AI Action Plan Trump announced last week would seek to sweep aside NEPA, as it's commonly known, to streamline environmental reviews an...
29 Jul, 2025, 06.37 PM IST
Top Trump officials visit prolific Alaska oil field amid push to expand drillingThe Trump administration is pushing to double oil production in Alaska and construct a natural gas project, aiming to boost energy supplies...
03 Jun, 2025, 07.44 AM IST
Decarbonization by 2045 agreed: Youth-led climate lawsuit settled in HawaiiHawaii settles with 13 young plaintiffs in Navahine v. Hawaii Department of Transportation lawsuit to decarbonize transportation by 2045, a...
22 Jun, 2024, 04.53 PM IST
Bitcoin environmental battles heat up in USBitcoin industry battles increase in US. Environmental concerns grow over energy consumption. Legal fights erupt over mining permits. Commu...
24 Apr, 2024, 11.23 PM IST
US lays out plan at COP 28 to slash climate 'super pollutant' from oil and gasThe rules, two years in the making, were announced by U.S. officials at the United Nations COP28 climate change conference in Dubai. The Un...
02 Dec, 2023, 02.02 PM IST
Biden calls for up to three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico, disappointing all sidesThe Biden administration has proposed up to three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico, while excluding Alaska, as it tries to bal...
29 Sep, 2023, 10.25 PM IST
Home Ministry cancels LIFE's Foreign Contribution Registration Act (FCRA) licenceThe Union home ministry has cancelled the Foreign Contribution Registration Act (FCRA) licence of environmental lawyer Ritwick Dutta's non-...
30 Apr, 2023, 11.42 PM IST
Cost of crypto: report say U.S. bitcoin as dirty as 6 million carsThe industry's carbon footprint, the groups said, was 27.4 million tonnes from mid-2021 through 2022 - three times that of the largest U.S....
23 Sep, 2022, 12.17 PM IST
A Bitcoin boom fueled by cheap power, empty plants and few rulesSoaring Bitcoin values may be the investment talk of Wall Street, but a few hours north, in upstate New York, the buzz is about companies t...
06 Dec, 2021, 04.19 PM IST
Bitcoin-mining power plant raises ire of environmentalistsGreenidge said it mined 729 bitcoins over three months ending Sept. 30. The value of cryptocurrency fluctuates, and on Friday, one bitcoin ...
17 Oct, 2021, 10.25 AM IST
- US plans to open 3 mn acres of Alaskan forest to logging
More than 3 million acres (1.2 million hectares) in Alaska's Tongass National Forest would be open to logging under a U.S. government plan ...
26 Jan, 2008, 05.20 AM IST
- Environmentalists ask US to regulate ship emissions
Environmental groups and California's attorney general petitioned the US government Wednesday to regulate emissions from oceangoing ships t...
04 Oct, 2007, 04.30 AM IST