Nearly half of children in the United States are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report, as experts warned Donald Trump’s expansive rollback of protections will make the situation worse…

…The report further found that communities of color are disproportionately exposed to unhealthy air. As a result, they are more likely to live with one or more chronic health conditions that make them more vulnerable to pollution, including asthma, diabetes, and heart disease…

…Since returning to office last year, the Trump administration has initiated at least 70 actions to roll back environmental and climate protections. Among them is the loosening of regulations on power plants that limit mercury and other hazardous air toxics.

Climate Central analyzed average annual temperature trends since 1970 in 49 states and 242 U.S. cities to understand how temperatures across the country have changed as heat-trapping pollution has continued to climb.

The fastest-warming U.S. states from 1970 to 2025 are:

• Alaska
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• Delaware
• Massachusetts
• Vermont

The fastest-warming U.S. cities are:

• Reno, NV
• Las Vegas, NV
• El Paso, TX
• Burlington, VT
• Tyler, TX

This Climate Matters analysis is based on open-access data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). See Methodology for details.

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

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Advocates expressed alarm as new project drills deeper into ocean bed, pointing to company’s failures at Deepwater Horizon spill

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The annual number of weather disasters inflicting $1 billion or more in damage has risen fivefold since the turn of the century, adjusted for inflation. Some of this is due to people rushing like lemmings into disaster-prone areas. But much of it is a result of the rising frequency and destructiveness of these events because of climate change.

A new "working-class climate agenda" seeks to provide economic relief and tackle global warming at the same time.