[UPDATED Nov. 9 11:25 a.m. ET to reflect election results.] A measure in Nevada to enshrine a clean energy mandate in the state constitution is heading to victory, while New Mexico voters approved an overhaul of their state’s Public Regulation Commission, and Arizonans elected another Democrat to the state’s Corporation...

Although the coronavirus pandemic has sucked up most of the oxygen in this year’s presidential and congressional races, West Coast wildfires, record-breaking heat waves and more than two dozen tropical storms have also made climate change an issue impossible for voters to ignore. President Trump pledged to withdraw the U.S.

Texas regulators last week approved El Paso Electric’s request to build a gas-fired generator that has drawn opposition from the city and local environmentalists. During its open meeting Friday, the Texas Public Utility Commission amended a certificate of convenience and necessity for an additional generating unit at EPE’s Newman Generating...