{
  "entity": "EarthNews",
  "subtitle": "An eCorp Venture",
  "domain": "earthnews.net",
  "vertical": "Climate & Energy",
  "count": 18,
  "generated_at": "2026-05-28T16:22:22.747Z",
  "articles": [
    {
      "title": "How Utility Companies and States Shaped America’s Clean Energy Transition",
      "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28052026/inside-clean-energy-utilities-renewable-portfolio-standard/",
      "summary": "Not long ago, the rise of U.S. renewable energy was largely tied to state policies that required or encouraged utilities to meet benchmarks for obtaining wind and solar power. The first of these “renewable portfolio standard,” or RPS, laws was likely the one adopted in Iowa in 19",
      "source": "insideclimatenews.org",
      "published": "Thu, 28 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Pennsylvania’s Governor Has a Plan to Make Data Centers Bring Their Own Energy. Now Comes the Hard Part.",
      "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28052026/pennsylvania-gov-shapiro-ai-data-center-plan/",
      "summary": "For months, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro promised a plan to blunt fast-rising energy costs in the state by pushing power-hungry AI data centers to pay their own way. Now his office has formally released details on how he intends to turn BYOE—“bring your own energy”—into more th",
      "source": "insideclimatenews.org",
      "published": "Thu, 28 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Wildfire smoke engulfed their cities. Did it make their babies sick?",
      "url": "https://grist.org/health/wildfire-smoke-engulfed-their-cities-did-it-make-their-babies-sick/",
      "summary": "Years after wildfire scares, parents are left wondering if their children's chronic illnesses began with what was in the air before they were born.",
      "source": "grist.org",
      "published": "Thu, 28 May 2026 08:45:00 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "The world’s largest data center was supposed to run on 100% natural gas. Utah’s Republican governor says ‘never.’",
      "url": "https://grist.org/accountability/data-center-natural-gas-utah-cox-box-elder-stratos/",
      "summary": "Governor Spencer Cox says nuclear, geothermal, and solar power should help fuel the colossal Stratos Project.",
      "source": "grist.org",
      "published": "Thu, 28 May 2026 08:30:00 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Hardline Conservative Wins Republican Primary for Texas Oil and Gas Regulator",
      "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27052026/bo-french-wins-republican-texas-railroad-commission-primary/",
      "summary": "Bo French has won the Republican nomination to help run a little-known but influential regulatory office in Texas that oversees the state’s oil and gas industry.  French, whose campaign was backed by far-right Texas oil tycoons, received 50.6 percent of the vote over incumbent Ji",
      "source": "insideclimatenews.org",
      "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 16:43:40 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "In Venezuela, Anxiety About Ramping Up Oil Production in the Heavily Polluted Lake Maracaibo Region",
      "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27052026/venezuela-lake-maracaibo-oil-production-environmental-impacts/",
      "summary": "There is a joke Mónica Godoy Molero likes to make with her family: if you swim in Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo after an oil spill, you’ll sprout a third eye.  It helps to have a twisted sense of humor when you live in a place exploited by oil companies for more than a century and i",
      "source": "insideclimatenews.org",
      "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Forecasters Predict Below-Average Hurricane Season, Advise Against Complacency",
      "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27052026/mild-hurricane-season-forecast-experts-still-urge-preparedness/",
      "summary": "Forecasters are calling for below-average activity this hurricane season, which begins Monday, June 1. The National Weather Service is predicting eight to 14 named storms, including three to six hurricanes and one to three major hurricanes of category 3, 4 or 5 strength, packing ",
      "source": "insideclimatenews.org",
      "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 08:55:00 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Nike’s recycled World Cup uniforms reveal the limits of ‘circular’ fashion",
      "url": "https://grist.org/culture/nikes-recycled-world-cup-uniforms-reveal-the-limits-of-circular-fashion/",
      "summary": "Will chemical recycling revolutionize the fashion industry, or is it just “an excuse to keep producing plastic clothes”?",
      "source": "grist.org",
      "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 08:30:00 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "An Unusually Early Heat Wave Breaks Temperature Records Across Western Europe",
      "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26052026/todays-climate-early-heat-wave-western-europe/",
      "summary": "Extreme heat is one of the most dangerous climate change risks in the United Kingdom, according to a new government-backed report that warned the nation is “built for a climate that no longer exists.”  Right after it came out, the U.K. recorded its hottest day on record for the m",
      "source": "insideclimatenews.org",
      "published": "Tue, 26 May 2026 22:33:23 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Residents Wrangle Over Transmission Line Proposal for Rural Virginia",
      "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26052026/rural-virginia-transmission-line-proposal/",
      "summary": "GOOCHLAND, Va.—Deborah Blackburn leaned on her cane in a line to enter the Central High Cultural and Educational Complex, angst-ridden over a giant transmission line proposal for reasons that are common refrains here: It’s all to benefit data centers in Northern Virginia, and it ",
      "source": "insideclimatenews.org",
      "published": "Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "‘I need Chevron’: The oil company at the center of the California governor’s race",
      "url": "https://grist.org/politics/chevron-oil-california-governor-becerra-steyer/",
      "summary": "California is trying to phase out fossil fuels, but it still needs gas. That makes for messy politics.",
      "source": "grist.org",
      "published": "Tue, 26 May 2026 08:30:00 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "In Florida, an Agricultural Town in Need of an Economic Boost Eyes Hyperscale Data Centers",
      "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25052026/florida-indiantown-hyperscale-data-center-proposals/",
      "summary": "INDIANTOWN, Fla.—Carroll McAllister frets over the prospect of a hyperscale data center opening next to the grassy expanse where she grew up, in a shack her father built. Now 87, McAllister is a tiny but sturdy woman with a bob of blonde hair. She fondly recalls running wild on t",
      "source": "insideclimatenews.org",
      "published": "Mon, 25 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "USDA Extends Pause on Loans for Controversial Digesters That Turn Manure Into Biogas",
      "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25052026/usda-biogas-digester-loan-pause/",
      "summary": "The federal government’s pause on new loans for anaerobic digesters, the controversial method of converting animal manure from large-scale feeding operations into biogas, will now extend through the end of the year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture explained the move in financi",
      "source": "insideclimatenews.org",
      "published": "Mon, 25 May 2026 08:55:00 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "The EPA just walked back Hawai‘i’s plan to retire its dinosaur power plants",
      "url": "https://grist.org/regulation/epa-just-walked-back-hawai%ca%bbis-plan-to-retire-its-dinosaur-power-plants/",
      "summary": "By throwing a wrench in the state’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan, advocates say Hawaiian Electric Co. can sidestep rules years in the making.",
      "source": "grist.org",
      "published": "Sun, 24 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Malnourished Gray Whales of the Eastern North Pacific Are in ‘Serious Trouble’",
      "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24052026/pacific-gray-whales-threatened-by-warming-waters/",
      "summary": "SEATTLE—Exceptionally skinny gray whales—enfeebled by starvation and mangled by blunt-force trauma—are washing up this spring along the coast of Washington state in numbers that alarm marine-mammal scientists. Twenty-three carcasses have been found so far this spring, many of the",
      "source": "insideclimatenews.org",
      "published": "Sun, 24 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Solar to overtake coal on Texas grid for the first time ever this year",
      "url": "https://grist.org/energy/solar-to-overtake-coal-on-texas-grid-for-the-first-time-ever-this-year/",
      "summary": "The Trump administration likes to cast renewables as a socialist scam, but solar has soared in the competitive markets of the Lone Star State.",
      "source": "grist.org",
      "published": "Sat, 23 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Why hybrids — not EVs — are winning over US consumers",
      "url": "https://grist.org/solutions/why-hybrids-not-evs-are-winning-over-u-s-consumers/",
      "summary": "High gas prices are driving EV growth in other parts of the world — but American drivers are favoring hybrids.",
      "source": "grist.org",
      "published": "Fri, 22 May 2026 08:45:00 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "In a rare show of global unity, countries adopt landmark climate ruling",
      "url": "https://grist.org/international/in-a-rare-show-of-global-unity-countries-adopt-landmark-climate-ruling/",
      "summary": "Despite U.S. opposition, an overwhelming majority of nations agreed that failing to address climate change could be grounds to seek reparations.",
      "source": "grist.org",
      "published": "Fri, 22 May 2026 08:30:00 +0000",
      "image": null
    }
  ]
}