More than a few climate and energy hawks woke with a start Monday morning when Bloomberg New Energy Finance Founder Michael Liebreich posted his 2017 predictions on Medium. Spoiler: You have to read all the way through to get the whole story.

The Keystone XL pipeline received approval early this morning from the Trump White House, with the breaking news report from The Canadian Press acknowledging the "hurdles" Calgary-based TransCanada Corporation faces acquiring a permit in Nebraska or agreement from landowners along the pipeline route.

New York City is in the midst of a massive residential solar boom, after seeing the number of projects in progress increase from 186 in 2011 to more than 5,300 last year (and 3,215 as of a news report yesterday). Atlantic CityLab traces the surge in activity to the simple process of getting city agencies ...

Wildfire season in the United States is off to an early and devastating start this year, with heat and high winds driving 10 times the typical level of activity for mid-March. The New York Times chronicled the impact after fires spread across the Ashland, Kansas ranch that Mark and Mary Kaltenbach had run for more ...

As opposition to the drastic energy and climate cuts in the White House budget continued to build this week, at least one legal defence organization was preparing to use Donald Trump’s words against him when the time comes to defend U.S. climate regulations in court.

Business leaders, scientists, and civil society “urged the world's leading economies to put global warming back on the G20 agenda,” Reuters reported Tuesday, after a commitment to climate finance disappeared from the communiqué from a meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bankers in Baden Baden, Germany.

More than $20 billion in green infrastructure investment, a $50-billion infrastructure bank, a $2-billion Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund, and allocations for renewable energy deployment, smart grid and storage development, electric vehicle infrastructure, building retrofits, an accelerated coal phase-out, and off-diesel programs for remote and Indigenous communities are among the highlights of the federal budget ...

China and the European Union have announced plans to “combine policy and market best-practice” to arrive at a stronger framework for green investment, the European Investment Bank announced earlier this week.

If utilities keep shutting down existing coal plants and cancelling new ones at the pace they set in 2016, it could be enough to keep humanity within reach of a long-term global warming target below 2°C, according to Boom and Bust 2017, a report this week by Coalswarm, Greenpeace, and the U.S. Sierra Club.

Whoever stands to gain from Enbridge Inc.’s blockbuster takeover of Houston-based Spectra Energy, it won’t be the 1,000 or so employees—6% of the combined work force—who are losing their jobs after an Enbridge announcement Wednesday.

Denmark, Germany, and The Netherlands are considering building a giant island in the North Sea as a support centre for up to 100 gigawatts of “far-shore” wind generation.

Blistering temperatures and extreme weather scorched every part of the earth and repeatedly shattered temperature records in 2016, the World Meteorological Organization reported this week in its annual State of Global Climate report.

Up to 7,000 “bubbles” caused by melting permafrost across Siberia’s Yamal and Gydan peninsulas could soon begin releasing their climate-busting methane into the atmosphere, the Siberian Times reports, citing a release by the Russian news agency TASS.

With the U.S. government taking the first steps to turn Donald Trump’s promised “beautiful” wall along America’s border with Mexico into a reality, a New York architect has an idea for clearing the small hurdle that Mexico has so far resisted Trump’s insistence that it pay for the barrier.

With Brexit negotiations about to begin, the United Nations has called attention to the UK’s failure to consult the European Union on the possible environmental impacts of a nuclear station it has approved in Somerset, England.