European gas prices spiked to a three-year high this week amid the widening conflict in the Middle East, though they pared some losses today after the US said it plans to protect navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.

A new goal pledges to cut carbon emissions per unit of gross domestic product by 17% by the end of the decade, and compares to a previous objective to deliver an 18% reduction in the five years through 2025 — which annual reports said was narrowly missed.

The 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding issued for mobile sources also provides the legally required finding that the US Environmental Protection Agency has relied on to regulate GHG emissions from other industrial sources, including the power sector and, for methane emissions, the oil and natural gas sector.

The European Climate Law already establishes climate neutrality by 2050 and a 55% net GHG reduction by 2030 (vs. 1990) as legally binding obligations for all member states.

UK’s latest Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction, Allocation Round 7 (AR7), has allocated 6.2 GW of new renewable energy capacity (UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero statement, 10/02/2026).

This consent allows the project to build and operate up to 100 turbines with associated infrastructure. Underground onshore cables will transmit power from the landfall site near Anderby Marsh (north of Skegness) to a new substation at Surfleet Marsh in South Lincolnshire.

Since early 2024, China’s emissions have been flat or declining, according to multiple independent trackers, even as power consumption climbed.

Winter Storm Fern (January 23–27, 2026) was a severe, multi-day arctic outbreak that brought record-low temperatures (as low as –43 °F in Minnesota), ice accumulations up to 0.80 inches, snowfall of 6–13 inches in the Ohio Valley, high winds, and widespread freezing precipitation across a vast corridor from northern Mexico through the Southern Plains, Midwest, Southeast, and Northeast.

The growing complexity of today’s energy ecosystem makes grid resiliency both a pressing challenge and a key differentiator for utilities and energy consumers.

The global average concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere surged by 3.5 parts per million from 2023 and 2024, the United Nations agency said in its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin on Wednesday.

Britain should brace for warming of at least 2 degrees Celsius by 2050 and as much as 4C by the end of the century, the Climate Change Committee said in a letter on Wednesday. It was responding to a request for advice from the government about likely future climate scenarios.

The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission is considering further changes to how the gap between scheduled and actual power generation is calculated, according to a document posted on its website. The move follows last year’s decision to narrow the allowed limits for such deviations.

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The administration said in May it was reviewing some $15 billion in projects awarded under President Joe Biden.

The U.S. Department of Energy today announced a $625 million investment to expand and reinvigorate America’s coal industry, aiming to boost energy production and support coal communities nationwide.