Politics
The political dramas and policy choices that are shaping the global response to the existential threat of climate change.
A Second Trump Presidency Could Threaten Already Shrinking Freedoms for Protest and Dissent
By Keerti Gopal
Advocates, Lawmakers Hope 2025 Will Be the Year Maryland Stops Subsidizing Trash Incineration
By Aman Azhar
Hindered Wildfire Responses, Costlier Agriculture Likely If Trump Dismantles NOAA, Experts Warn
By Jake Bolster
Competing Visions for U.S. Auto Industry Clash in Presidential Election, With the EV Future Pressing at the Border
By Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino
Critics Say Alabama’s $5 Billion Highway Project Is a ‘Road to Nowhere,’ but the State Is Pushing Forward
By Dennis Pillion
Voters Head to the Polls in a World Full of Plastic Pollution. What’s at Stake This Year?
By James Bruggers
Lifting the Veil on Tens of Billions in Oil Company Payments to Governments
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Who’s Running in the Big Money Election for the Texas Railroad Commission?
By Martha Pskowski
Advocates, Legislators Are Confident Maryland Law to Rectify Retail Energy Market Will Survive Industry’s Legal Challenge
By Aman Azhar
Election Throws Uncertainty Onto Biden’s Signature Climate Law
By Nicholas Kusnetz
An Election for a Little-Known Agency Could Dictate the Future of Renewables in Arizona
By Wyatt Myskow
Climate Disasters Only Slightly Shift the Political Needle
By Bob Berwyn
Polling Shows Pennsylvania Voters Are Divided on Fracking
By Kiley Bense
Fact-Checking the Viral Conspiracies in the Wake of Hurricane Helene
By Zoya Teirstein, Grist
In Florida Senate Race, Two Candidates With Vastly Different Views on the Climate
By Amy Green
In Competitive Purple Districts, GOP House Members Paint Themselves Green
By Marianne Lavelle, Liza Gross
