Politics
The political dramas and policy choices that are shaping the global response to the existential threat of climate change.
What Is an Energy Emergency? The Trump Administration Says It Alone Decides.
By Marianne Lavelle
Trump Administration Bans a Nonprofit’s Bison From Grazing on Federal Lands, but Spares Tribes
By Blaine Harden
An Outpouring of Frustration Over Pennsylvania’s Rapid Data Center Growth
By Jon Hurdle
China Widens Its Clean Energy Lead
By Nicholas Kusnetz
New York Plastics Law Advances Amid Debate Over ‘Chemical Recycling’
By Lauren Dalban
Florida to Close Alligator Alcatraz, News Report Says
By Amy Green
Trump Administration Kills Rule Putting Conservation of Public Lands on Equal Footing With Resource Extraction
By Wyatt Myskow
Trump’s EPA Seeks Looser Construction Rules for Gas Plants, Data Centers and Factories
By Charles Paullin
New Jersey Leads the Nation in Superfund Sites as EPA Funding Cuts and Staff Reductions Threaten Cleanups
By Anna Mattson
Faster Slaughterhouse Line Speeds Are Increasingly a Climate Problem
By Georgina Gustin
A Massive, Trump-Backed Power Plant May Be Too Big to Succeed
By Dan Gearino
How Oil Fuels Conflict and War—and Who Profits
Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth
With Fertilizer Pollution on the Rise, Iowa Will Invest $100 Million in Water Treatment
By Anika Jane Beamer
Trump Pushes ‘Peace Pipelines’ to Boost Exports of Climate-Busting LNG to Europe
By Dennis Pillion
Western Lawmakers Move To Weaken Clean Air Act and Shield Fossil Fuel Companies From Climate Lawsuits
By Jake Bolster
The Trump Administration Tried to Stop the National EV Charging Program. It Has Kept Rolling Along Anyway.
By Dan Gearino