Politics
The political dramas and policy choices that are shaping the global response to the existential threat of climate change.
New York Mayoral Candidates All Strut Their Green Credentials
By Lauren Dalban
Why Trump Keeps Blaming the Delta Smelt for California’s Water Woes—and What It Could Mean for Endangered Species
By Kiley Price
Project 2025 Advisor Takes the Reins at EPA Region 6
By Martha Pskowski
Pennsylvania’s New Energy Plan a ‘Betrayal’ to Those on the Front Lines, Critics Say
By Kiley Bense
GOP Lawmakers Seek to Roll Back Methane Fee
By Phil McKenna
Lawmakers Demand Accountability From EPA Leaders Amid Funding Freeze, Staffing Disruptions
By Aman Azhar
‘It’s Worse Every Day’: Environmental Justice Staffers at EPA Face Uncertain Future as Potential Layoffs Loom
By Aman Azhar
How the Money Stopped at One Environmental Nonprofit, Causing Hardship and Alarm
By Lisa Sorg
Directive From New Interior Secretary Weakens Public Land Protections to Push Fossil Fuels
By Lisa Sorg, Wyatt Myskow
Mid-Atlantic States Prepare for More Billion-Dollar Disasters as Trump Considers Cutting Emergency Funding
By Kiley Bense
‘Canary in a Coal Mine’: Data Scientists Restore a Climate Justice Tool Taken Down by Trump
By Anika Jane Beamer
‘America at War With Itself’: Humanitarian, Climate Aid Becomes Flashpoint in a Battle for Control of U.S. Government
By Dennis Pillion
Trump Administration Scrubs EPA Staff’s Pronouns from Their Emails and Websites Without Their Knowledge
By Liza Gross
Vermont Faces Potential Retrenchment in Climate Ambition
By Nathaniel Eisen
‘Breathtakingly Ignorant and Dangerous’: Trump’s DOT Orders Sweeping Purge of Climate, Gender, Race, Environmental Justice Initiatives
By Dennis Pillion
Amid Paused Solar Funding, EPA Floats Workforce Reductions
By Jake Bolster
