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China has published a new five-year plan for coal, the latest in a slew of important policy documents for the country’s energy transition.
The 2026 cohort brought together reporters from a range of regional and independent outlets across the world.
The US blockade of tankers serving Iran's oil exports is intended to cut Iranian oil exports to near-zero.
The decline of domestic fossil fuel production in the United States poses serious economic risks for communities that rely on fossil fuel industries for jobs and public revenues. Many of these communities lack the resources and capacity to manage those risks on their own. The absence of viable economic strategies for affected regions is a barrier to building the broad, durable coalitions needed for an equitable national transition to cleaner energy sources.