Solar power, EVs, and other clean-energy technologies drove more than 1/3 of the growth in China’s economy in 2025.

More info:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-clean-energy-drove-more-than-a-third-of-chinas-gdp-growth-in-2025/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_climatecoach

Courts have now revived all five Atlantic Coast projects that Trump officials halted in December while legal battles play out.

More info: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/climate/judge-offshore-wind-sunrise.html

The Energy Department is revising or canceling more than $83 billion in loans for clean energy technologies.

More info: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/climate/energy-dept-says-it-is-canceling-30-billion-in-clean-energy-loans.html?searchResultPosition=1

Global ocean heat content increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2025.

More info: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09012026/ocean-warming-breaks-record-for-ninth-straight-year/?utm_source=InsideClimate+News&utm_campaign=c6d1f2caee-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_01_10_11_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-c6d1f2caee-328589208

The US is withdrawing from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the 1992 U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

More info:  https://www.wsj.com/world/trump-pulls-u-s-out-of-more-than-30-u-n-bodies-11127ca4?mod=djemclimate

About 65% of registered voters in the US think that global warming is increasing the cost of living.

More info: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/26/us-voters-link-climate-crisis-affordability

The Trump administration has stopped closure of Washington state's last coal plant.

More info: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18122025/trumps-energy-secretary-orders-a-washington-state-coal-plant-to-remain-open/

A federal judge has struck down Trump’s halt on approvals of all wind power projects on federal lands and waters.

More info: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/climate/trump-offshore-wind-federal-judge.html?searchResultPosition=1

FedEx aims to replace its entire pickup-and-delivery fleet with EVs by 2040.

more info: https://www.axios.com/2025/11/26/fedex-electric-vehicles-harbinger

On the slopes of an Oregon volcano, engineers are building the hottest geothermal power plant on Earth.

More info: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/11/19/volcano-geothermal-energy/