Politics
The political dramas and policy choices that are shaping the global response to the existential threat of climate change.
Pruitt Takes Clean Water Act Decisions Away from Regional EPA Offices
By Phil McKenna
Why Weakening Fuel Efficiency Standards Could Be Trump's Most Climate-Damaging Move Yet
By John H. Cushman Jr., Marianne Lavelle
California Bans Climate-Warming HFCs in New Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
By Sabrina Shankman
Judge Rejects Exxon's Attempt to Shut Down States' Climate Fraud Investigations
By David Hasemyer, John H. Cushman Jr.
Utility Giant FirstEnergy Calls for Emergency Subsidy, Says It Can’t Compete
By John H. Cushman Jr.
A Renewable Energy Battle Is Brewing in Arizona, with Confusion as a Weapon
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Judge: Trump Must Consider Climate Change in Major Drilling, Mining Lease Plan
By Neela Banerjee
$1.3 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill Passes After GOP Drops Anti-Environment Riders
By Marianne Lavelle
Global Emissions Rose in 2017, But U.S. and China Both Made Progress
By Phil McKenna
How Pruitt’s New ‘Secret Science’ Policy Could Undermine Air Pollution Rules
By Marianne Lavelle
How Pruitt's EPA Is Delaying, Weakening and Repealing Clean Air Rules
By Marianne Lavelle
America’s Biggest Beef Eaters Responsible for Large Chunk of Climate Emissions
By Georgina Gustin
Climate Contrarians Try to Slip Their Views into U.S. Court’s Science Tutorial
By John H. Cushman Jr.
8 Answers to the Judge’s Climate Change Questions in Cities vs. Fossil Fuels Case
By John H. Cushman Jr.
Climate Legal Paradox: Judges Issue Dueling Rulings for Cities Suing Fossil Fuel Companies
By David Hasemyer
Lots of Climate Risk Talk, Not Enough Corporate Action, CDP Says
By Georgina Gustin
