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Global shift back to fossil fuels from renewables
Multiple regions including the US, Canada, India, Southeast Asia, and ASEAN nations are increasing reliance on fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas) and backing away from renewable energy commitments due to rising energy costs, supply constraints, and economic pressures. This represents a reversal of earlier net-zero and clean energy transition efforts.
This is a long-running storyline that has developed over 19 days. The homepage highlights its most recent activity, so the outlet count there reflects the latest wave. The totals above cover the full run.
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- Japan's Chiyoda to resume construction on Qatari LNG plant
- Malaysia-Japan hydrogen project scales back due to funding constraints
- Japan to test perovskite solar power at Self-Defense Forces bases
- Middle East energy crisis pushes India, Southeast Asia back toward coal
- Japan to unleash green bonds on EV batteries, other new fields
- Japan reactor makers project record sales in nuclear power resurgence
2026-05-25
- Alaska's oil revival sparks a new energy rush Into the Arctic
- Resistance grows against New York’s 18 planned solar farms that locals say ruin land, kill animals and won’t create much energy
- These billion-dollar projects were sold as a green revolution for struggling communities. Now, see where your tax dollars sit broken and abandoned across the US
- BHP defies its own climate strategy to spend hundreds of millions on polluting diesel trucks in Pilbara
- China’s Solar Installations Fall for Fourth Straight Month
- Can Exxon build the world’s biggest carbon capture business?
- Chinese Firms Speed Up Plans to Build New Coal Power Plants: GEM
- Shock absorber: will Asean’s power grid be up to the task by 2045?
2026-05-24
2026-05-23
2026-05-20
- Carney Pitches Reluctant British Columbia on New Oil Pipeline to Fuel Asia
- Democrats are ready to reverse reckless GOP energy agenda and lower costs
- ‘Even better than tech.’ A scramble into this sector is coming, warns veteran wealth manager.
- Denver has a plan to heat and cool buildings without fossil fuels. It involves … sewage?
- Rachel Reeves to protect ‘critical’ clean energy projects from legal challenges
- AEP's McCulloch on Australia’s Energy Path Forward