Politics
The political dramas and policy choices that are shaping the global response to the existential threat of climate change.
‘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
Watchdog Groups Anticipate ‘an All-Out War on Science and Scientists’ by the Trump Administration
By Bob Berwyn
Mid-Atlantic States, PJM Agree to Price Cap for Capacity Auction, Temporarily Easing Energy Affordability Concerns
By Aman Azhar
Reset or Purge? Trump EPA Dismisses Agency Science Advisers
By Marianne Lavelle
RFK Jr. Confirmation Hearing Highlighted His Inconsistency But Overlooked Climate and Environment
By Keerti Gopal
Federal Spending Freeze Could Have Widespread Impact on Environment, Emergency Management
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Money for the Colorado River Faces an Uncertain Fate Under Trump
By Alex Hager, KUNC