A selection of significant developments in international climate politics, policy, finance, fossil fuels and climate impacts, drawn from specialist climate-news sources.
Energy transition and industrial policy
Trump ordered to release billions in climate grants meant for Black communities
Dominika Parry never stopped fighting for Jackson, Mississippi, residents even after the Trump administration terminated a multibillion-dollar program last year meant to help the Black city still reeling from a water crisis. For years, if water did flow out of Black households’ faucets in Jackson at all, it was often brown.…
Electric Trucks In Play As New, Trump-Endorsed Lithium-Ion Battery Factory Takes Shape
A forthcoming 3 gigawatt-hour factory in North Carolina will help nail down an ample supply of Made-in-the-USA lithium-ion batteries, supported by a $100 million grant from the US Department of Energy.
Mahle Introduces Range Extender For Electric Trucks
In reality, the battery electric heavy trucks of today have insufficient range for many applications. Even the mighty Tesla Semi (once it actually becomes widely available) will have its limitations. No matter how aerodynamic the shape of the cab or how large the battery, hauling a fully loaded semi-trailer uphill …
Solar buoyed Europe’s grid amid record-breaking heat and drought this summer
Repeated record-breaking heat waves cooked the European continent this summer, delivering the region’s hottest June on record. A simultaneous, though possibly related , drought shriveled rivers to record lows.…
Extreme weather and climate impacts
Living with drought has taught pastoralists lessons the world needs
Cattle are a central part of the identity of Andrew Msami’s Maasai community in northeast Tanzania. Herd size determines social position, and many people keep all their wealth in livestock, not banks.…
Fossil fuels and corporate accountability
US Army Corps approves a pipeline project it knows harms Indigenous lands
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a key permit for a plan to update an aging segment of the Line 5 pipeline crossing the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan, waterways that tribal nations say are central to their ways of life.…
Forests, agriculture and land use
Trump administration advances plan to open national forests to development
The Trump administration is proposing to rescind the roadless rule, a 25-year-old policy that bars development like road construction and logging on nearly 45 million acres of national forest land, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday.…
Climate science and emissions
Explainer: How the ‘super El Niño’ will reshape the world’s weather
The world is currently experiencing what is expected to become the strongest El Niño on record – dubbed a super El Niño…
Source URLs
- Trump ordered to release billions in climate grants meant for Black communities — https://grist.org/energy/trump-ordered-to-release-billions-in-climate-grants-meant-for-black-communities/
- Electric Trucks In Play As New, Trump-Endorsed Lithium-Ion Battery Factory Takes Shape — https://cleantechnica.com/2026/08/20/batteries-lithium-ion-us-factory-forge-nano-samsung-sdi/
- Mahle Introduces Range Extender For Electric Trucks — https://cleantechnica.com/2026/08/20/mahle-introduces-range-extender-for-electric-trucks/
- Solar buoyed Europe’s grid amid record-breaking heat and drought this summer — https://grist.org/energy/heat-waves-europe-grid-solar-energy/
- Living with drought has taught pastoralists lessons the world needs — https://grist.org/global-indigenous-affairs-desk/living-with-drought-has-taught-pastoralists-lessons-the-world-needs/
- US Army Corps approves a pipeline project it knows harms Indigenous lands — https://grist.org/energy/us-army-corps-approves-line-5-tunnel-project-harms-indigenous-lands/
- Trump administration advances plan to open national forests to development — https://grist.org/regulation/trump-administration-advances-roadless-rule-national-forests/
- Explainer: How the ‘super El Niño’ will reshape the world’s weather — https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/el-nino-explainer/index.html