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Received — 11 June 2026 ⏭

Democrats Once Vowed to Stop Oil and Gas. Now They’re Not So Sure.

✇NYT - Energy & Environment
By: Lisa Friedman and Brad Plumer
11 June 2026 at 18:49
As the midterm elections approach, many leading Democrats are rethinking their approach to climate change.

© Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

A talk on rising energy costs on Capitol Hill hosted by Democrats, from left, Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, in March.
Received — 6 June 2026 ⏭
Received — 5 June 2026 ⏭
Received — 2 June 2026 ⏭

Democrats Pledge to Fight Trump’s Termination of Ocean Monitoring Observatories

✇NYT - Energy & Environment
By: Lisa Friedman
2 June 2026 at 21:53
The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that monitors marine ecosystems and the effects of climate change.

© National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative

Recovering a surface buoy — part of a network of moorings, buoys and gliders making observations of the ocean — from the Irminger Sea off Greenland’s coast, in 2021.
Received — 31 May 2026 ⏭

A Clean Energy PAC Helped Beat Chip Roy, and Now It Has New Targets

✇NYT - Energy & Environment
By: Lisa Friedman
29 May 2026 at 20:47
A PAC representing wind and solar energy interests spent $1.1 million to boost the Republican primary opponent of Chip Roy, an opponent of renewables. Now they are trying to save a Republican ally in Iowa.

© Michael A. McCoy for The New York Times

A group of renewable energy investors paid for this projection on the side of the Energy Department building in Washington gloating over Representative Chip Roy’s defeat in a Republican primary for Texas attorney general.
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