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A coal truck leaves a power plant in Utah. Fossil fuel combustion in power plants and truck engines is a major producer of fine particulate matter linked to lung damage and other health problems. Credit: George Frey/Getty Images

How Pruitt’s New ‘Secret Science’ Policy Could Undermine Air Pollution Rules

By Marianne Lavelle

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt meets with coal miners in Pennsylvania. Credit: Justin Merriman/Getty Images

How Pruitt's EPA Is Delaying, Weakening and Repealing Clean Air Rules

By Marianne Lavelle

A new study matched what people reported eating with the carbon footprint of those foods and then ranked them. Beef was a big part of the difference. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

America’s Biggest Beef Eaters Responsible for Large Chunk of Climate Emissions

By Georgina Gustin

Christopher Monckton, one of the contrarian commentators who filed a "friend of the court" brief in the cities case, has been a speaker at Heartland Institute conferences and a guest of climate policy opponents in Congress. Credit: Torsten Blackwell/AFP/G

Climate Contrarians Try to Slip Their Views into U.S. Court’s Science Tutorial

By John H. Cushman Jr.

Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, deforestation and other sources trap heat, warming the planet. Credit: NASA

8 Answers to the Judge’s Climate Change Questions in Cities vs. Fossil Fuels Case

By John H. Cushman Jr.

Imperial Beach sits at the water's edge and is known for its beaches. Its suing fossil fuel companies over climate change. Credit: Kotoviski/CC-BY-SA-3.0

Climate Legal Paradox: Judges Issue Dueling Rulings for Cities Suing Fossil Fuel Companies

By David Hasemyer

CDP's latest climate risk survey shows a disconnect between companies awareness of climate risk and action. Credit: Christophe Simona/AFP/Getty Images

Lots of Climate Risk Talk, Not Enough Corporate Action, CDP Says

By Georgina Gustin

Trump-appointed FEMA Director Brock Long speaks in Corpus Christi, Texas, as Hurricane Harvey struck in 2017. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

Trump's FEMA Ignores Climate Change in New Strategic Plan

By Georgina Gustin

Scott Pruitt, EPA administrator under President Trump. Credit: Zach Gibson/AFP/Getty Images

Trump EPA Sued Over Refusal to Release Heartland Institute Communications

By Marianne Lavelle

Coal ash ponds in North Carolina. Credit: Waterkeeper Alliance

EPA Environmental Justice Adviser Slams Pruitt's Plan to Weaken Coal Ash Rules

By Phil McKenna

A Verreaux's sifaka, a type of lemur that lives in Madagascar. Credit: Martina Lippuner/WWF

Climate Change Threatens Thousands of Species in Our Lifetime

By Sabrina Shankman

Mike Pompeo, with Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts and former Sen. Bob Dole, at his confirmation hearing in early 2017 to be CIA director. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Mike Pompeo, Climate Policy Foe, Picked to Replace Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State

By Marianne Lavelle

A Chevron refinery. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

3 Dozen Investor Resolutions Target Oil, Gas and Power Companies on Climate Change

By David Hasemyer

Young plaintiffs are suing the U.S. over its responsibility to address climate change. Photo courtesy of Robin Loznak/ZUMAPRESS.com

Children’s Climate Lawsuit Heads to Trial After Trump Admin. Fails to Block It

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Republican Sens. John Barrasso of Wyoming, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, John Thune of South Dakota, and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty

GOP Pushes 80 Anti-Environment Riders, Dark Money Rule Changes in Spending Bill

By Marianne Lavelle

An EPA study found that non-whites face higher exposure to particulate pollution than whites in all but four states and Washington, D.C.  Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

EPA Finds Black Americans Face More Health-Threatening Air Pollution

By Phil McKenna

The Chevron oil field near Bakersfield, California. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images

For California to Meet Climate Goals, Try Cutting Oil Production

By Nicholas Kusnetz

AEP's Conesville power plant. Credit: Delta Wiskey/Flickr/CC-BY-ND-2.0

Power Giant AEP Talks Up Clean Energy, but Coal Is Still King in Its Portfolio

By JAN ELLEN SPIEGEL

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