Legislators are weighing tax increases on the wealthy and changes to laws meant to protect immigrants and the environment as the state budget deadline passes.

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Higher oil prices and limited supply will accelerate a turn toward cleaner technologies, especially in Asia and Europe.

The U.S. and other exporters are poised for a windfall, but disruptions to Persian Gulf supplies are also pushing gas-buying countries to consider alternatives like coal, solar and nuclear energy.

We now have cost-competitive alternatives to fossil fuels. What we don’t seem to have is a sense that we’re all in this together.

More solar energy was added to U.S. grids than any other technology, but the amount installed fell by 14 percent, according to a new report.

It feels as if our political institutions have abandoned the climate, but the clean energy economy is still growing.

In Mississippi, neighbors of a Chevron plant worry that an influx of Venezuelan oil could increase pollution. They want the company to pay to move them out.