Politics
The political dramas and policy choices that are shaping the global response to the existential threat of climate change.
Environmental Justice Plays a Key Role in Biden’s Covid-19 Stimulus Package
By Marianne Lavelle
Trump’s Forest Service Planned More Logging in the Yaak Valley, Environmentalists Want Biden To Make it a ‘Climate Refuge’
By Judy Fahys
Federal Courts Help Biden Quickly Dismantle Trump’s Climate and Environmental Legacy
By Marianne Lavelle
The Petroleum Industry May Want a Carbon Tax, but Biden and Congressional Republicans are Not Necessarily Fans
By Marianne Lavelle, Judy Fahys
Big Banks Make a Dangerous Bet on the World’s Growing Demand for Food
By Georgina Gustin
How Much Does Climate Change Cost? Biden Raises Carbon’s Dollar Value, but Not by Nearly Enough, Some Say
By Marianne Lavelle
In Attacks on Environmental Advocates in Canada, a Disturbing Echo of Extremist Politics in the US
By Nicholas Kusnetz
What’s On Interior’s To-Do List? A Full Plate of Public Lands Issues—and Trump Rollbacks—for Deb Haaland
By Judy Fahys
Mary Nichols Was the Early Favorite to Run Biden’s EPA, Before She Became a ‘Casualty’
By Katie Surma
‘We Need to Be Bold,’ Biden Says, Taking the First Steps in a Major Shift in Climate Policy
By Marianne Lavelle, Agya K. Aning, Dan Gearino, David Hasemyer, James Bruggers, Katie Surma, Kristoffer Tigue, Phil McKenna
Biden’s Pause of New Federal Oil and Gas Leases May Not Reduce Production, but It Signals a Reckoning With Fossil Fuels
By Nicholas Kusnetz, Judy Fahys
Can Massachusetts Democrats Overcome the Power of Business Lobbyists and Pass Climate Legislation?
By Phil McKenna
Activists See Biden’s Day One Focus on Environmental Justice as a Critical Campaign Promise Kept
By Kristoffer Tigue, Agya K. Aning, Judy Fahys, Katie Surma
Biden Signs Sweeping Orders to Tackle Climate Change and Rollback Trump’s Anti-Environment Legacy
By Sabrina Shankman, Dan Gearino, David Hasemyer, James Bruggers, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna
The US Rejoins the Paris Agreement, but Rebuilding Credibility on Climate Action Will Take Time
By Bob Berwyn
Biden Cancels Keystone XL, Halts Drilling in Arctic Refuge on Day One, Signaling a Larger Shift Away From Fossil Fuels
By Nicholas Kusnetz
