Politics
The political dramas and policy choices that are shaping the global response to the existential threat of climate change.
On The Global Stage, Jacinda Ardern Was a Climate Champion, But Victories Were Hard to Come by at Home
By Emma Ricketts
Texas Regulators Won’t Stop an Oilfield Waste Dump Site Next to Wetlands, Streams and Wells
By Dylan Baddour
Amid Rising Emissions, Could Congressional Republicans Help the US Reach Its Climate Targets?
By Emma Ricketts, Grant Schwab
How Gas Stoves Became Part of America’s Raging Culture Wars
By Victoria St. Martin
Six Environmental Justice Policy Fights to Watch in 2023
By Kristoffer Tigue, Aydali Campa, Darreonna Davis
Arizona’s New Governor Takes on Water Conservation and Promises to Revise the State’s Groundwater Management Act
By Wyatt Myskow
In the Amazon, Indigenous and Locally Controlled Land Stores Carbon, but the Rest of the Rainforest Emits Greenhouse Gases
By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma
Louisiana Regulators Are Not Keeping Up With LNG Boom, Environmentalists Say
By James Bruggers
Wildfires Are Burning State Budgets
By Anne Marshall-Chalmers
Congress Urges EPA to Maintain Clean-Air Regulations on Chemical Recycling of Plastics
By James Bruggers
Republicans Are Primed to Take on ‘Woke Capitalism’ in 2023, with Climate Disclosure Rules for Corporations in Their Sights
By Marianne Lavelle
Nearly 200 Countries Approve a Biodiversity Accord Enshrining Human Rights and the ‘Rights of Nature’
By Katie Surma
Proposed EU Nature Restoration Law Could be the First Big Step Toward Achieving COP15’s Ambitious Plan to Staunch Biodiversity Loss
By Bob Berwyn
2022 Will Be Remembered as the Year the U.S. Became the World’s Largest Exporter of Liquified Natural Gas
By Nicholas Kusnetz
California Had a Watershed Climate Year, But Time Is Running Out
By Liza Gross
When the State Cut Their Water, These California Users Created a Collaborative Solution
By Emma Foehringer Merchant
