Politics
The political dramas and policy choices that are shaping the global response to the existential threat of climate change.
Was a Federal Scientist’s Dismissal an 11th-hour Bid to Give Climate Denial Long-Term Legitimacy?
By Marianne Lavelle
For a Climate-Concerned President and a Hostile Senate, One Technology May Provide Common Ground
By Nicholas Kusnetz
With Biden’s Win, Climate Activists See New Potential But Say They’ll ‘Push Where We Need to Push’
By Georgina Gustin
Young Voters, Motivated by Climate Change and Environmental Justice, Helped Propel Biden’s Campaign
By Ilana Cohen
Trump Demoted FERC Chairman Chatterjee After He Expressed Support for Carbon Pricing
By Dan Gearino
A Bipartisan Climate Policy? It Could Happen Under a Biden Administration, Washington Veterans Say
By Marianne Lavelle
Post Election, Climate and Racial Justice Protesters Gather in Boston Over Ballot Counting
By Phil McKenna
Oregon Allows a Controversial Fracked Gas Power Plant to Begin Construction
By Ilana Cohen
The Polls Showed Democrats Poised to Reclaim the Senate. Then Came Election Day.
By James Bruggers, Judy Fahys
From East to West On Election Eve, Climate Change—and its Encroaching Peril—Are On Americans’ Minds
By Marianne Lavelle
When Trump’s EPA Needed a Climate Scientist, They Called on John Christy
By Marianne Lavelle, Inside Climate News, and Dennis Pillion, AL.com
Analysts See Democrats Likely to Win the Senate, Opening the Door to Climate Legislation
By James Bruggers
Energizing People Who Play Outside to Exercise Their Civic Muscles at the Ballot Box
By Judy Fahys
Luis Magaña Has Spent 20 Years Advocating for Farmworkers, But He’s Never Seen Anything Like This
By Evelyn Nieves
No Matter Who Wins, the US Exits the Paris Climate Accord the Day After the Election
By Bob Berwyn
War on NOAA? A Climate Denier’s Arrival Raises Fears the Agency's Climate Mission Is Under Attack
By Marianne Lavelle
