By an overwhelming margin, Ecuadoreans vote to discontinue oil drilling in Yasuní National Park and keep it in the ground. 

Shell Oil quietly abandons its plan to spend up to $100 million a year on carbon credits. Its “net zero by 2050” pledge is in doubt. 

Fueled by an overheated Atlantic, Hurricane Idalia strikes Florida with 125-mile-per-hour winds and an enormous storm surge. Damages are already near $10 billion. 

The storm splits a century-old oak tree, half of which crashes onto the Governor’s Mansion in Tallahassee.

Florida governor Ron DeSantis rejects $377 million in IRA energy-efficiency funds from the federal government.

The Biden administration’s first-ever auction of offshore-wind-development rights in the Gulf of Mexico yields only one bid on the Louisiana coast and none in Texas waters. 

Climate change has increased the size and frequency of waves along California’s coast. 

Today’s forest fires burn nearly twice as many trees as fires 20 years ago. In California, climate change has increased extreme daily wildfire growth by 25 percent. 

A summer of extreme heat and forest fires has been catastrophic for British Columbia’s salmon populations.

Climate protesters block the road leading to the annual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.

Jeffrey Clark, then–President Trump’s top environmental attorney, surrenders to authorities in Georgia after being charged with aiding Trump in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Georgia utility customers will likely pay an extra $9 a month to pay for Georgia Power’s two new nuclear reactors, which came in seven years late and $17 billion over budget. 

The aspen saplings in Yellowstone National Park that regenerated after reintroduced wolves thinned herds of browsing elk are now being trampled and broken by rapidly increasing numbers of northern Yellowstone bison.

Wolves return to Giant Sequoia National Monument in California’s southern Sierra for the first time in more than a century. Four new wolf packs have been confirmed in the state in the past five months. 

Two-thirds of EPA employees would consider quitting if the agency stopped allowing them to work from home.