FILE - A worker does checks on battery storage pods at Orsted's Eleven Mile Solar Center lithium-ion battery storage energy facility Feb. 29, 2024, in Coolidge, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Trump's return brought stiff headwinds for clean energy. So why are advocates optimistic in 2026?

Venison Sauerbraten can be a wonderful addition to a holiday meal

Wild Holiday Fare from the Hunt

Environmental Protection Agency director Lee Zeldin speaks at a news conference Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)

EPA eliminates mention of fossil fuels in website on warming's causes. Scientists call it misleading

FILE - A Block Island Wind Farm turbine operates, Dec. 7, 2023, off the coast of Block Island, R.I., during a tour organized by Orsted. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy

FILE - Vehicles drive along a highway July 30, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

FACT FOCUS: Trump said weaker gas mileage rules will mean cheaper cars. Experts say don't bet on it

photo of fog, lake, vegetation

A Fall Outdoor Odyssey

A Kwik Trip station in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, was among the locations chosen for new charging stations in the first round of Wisconsin’s build-out for its charging station network under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program (NEVI), part of the bipartisan infrastructure law enacted during President Joe Biden’s term in office. (Photo by Erik Gunn/Wisconsin Examiner)

Wisconsin restarts electric vehicle project with $14 million for 26 charging stations

FILE - Fire crews monitor the Palisades Fire in Mandeville Canyon on Jan. 11, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Landmark Paris Agreement set a path to slow warming. The world hasn't stayed on it

FILE - Eggs are displayed in refrigerators at a grocery store in Glenview, Ill., Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Trump administration moves to loosen restrictions it once supported on a harmful pollutant

All nations of the world had homework this year: submit new-and-improved plans to fight climate change. But the plans they handed in “have barely moved the needle” on reducing Earth’s future warming, a new United Nations report finds. And a good chunk of that progress is counteracted by the United States' withdrawal from the effort, the report adds. The newest climate-fighting plans — mandated every five years by the 2015 Paris Agreement — shaves about three-tenths of a degree Celsius (nearly six-tenths o

Climate-fighting efforts show slight gain but still fall far short, UN says

Storm chasers buffeted by Hurricane Melissa

A post marks where Enbridge’s Line 5 crosses the reservation of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa on Friday, June 24, 2022. The Canadian energy firm is proposing to reroute Line 5 for 41 miles around the tribe’s reservation. Danielle Kaeding/WPR

Army Corps of Engineers grants federal permit for Enbridge’s Line 5 reroute

This is an aerial rendering of what the planned data center campus in Port Washington could look like. Photo courtesy of the City of Port Washington

Wisconsin residents look for more input from state on mushrooming data centers

FILE - Thai officials show samples of illegally imported electronic waste from the United States which they said they seized at Bangkok Port during a press conference in Bangkok, Thailand, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit), File)

American e-waste is causing a 'hidden tsunami' in Southeast Asia, watchdog report says

large flock of sandhills cranes taking flight

Birding - The Fall Migration

The kitchen sink at Margie Walker and Jim Boisen’s home in French Island, Wisconsin. Angela Major/WPR

Wisconsin lawmakers, regulators clash over PFAS protections in GOP bills

FILE - A haul truck is seen after being loaded with coal by a mechanized shovel at the Spring Creek mine, in this Nov. 15, 2016 photo, near Decker, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Trump is reviving large sales of coal from public lands. Will anyone want it?

Flames rise from the Chevron refinery in El Segundo, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

Flames are visible for miles after a fire erupts at a Chevron refinery outside Los Angeles

FILE - A worker harvests cabbage March 5, 2025, in Holtville, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

A recipe for avoiding 15 million deaths a year and climate disaster is fixing food, scientists say

FILE - Jane Goodall kisses Tess, a female chimpanzee, at the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary near Nanyuki, north of Nairobi, on Dec. 6, 1997. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File)

Jane Goodall, conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died

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