Politics
The political dramas and policy choices that are shaping the global response to the existential threat of climate change.
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
In Final Debate, Trump and Biden Display Vastly Divergent Views—and Levels of Knowledge—On Climate
By Georgina Gustin
Could Biden Name an Indigenous Secretary of the Interior? Environmental Groups are Hoping He Will.
By Ilana Cohen
Senate 2020: In Mississippi, a Surprisingly Close Race For a Trump-Tied Promoter of Fossil Fuels
By James Bruggers
Exxon Turns to Academia in an Attempt to Discredit Harvard Research
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Senate 2020: In Alaska, a Controversy Over an Embattled Mine Has Tightened the Race
By Sabrina Shankman
California Ranchers and Activists Face Off Over a Federal Plan to Cull a Beloved Tule Elk Herd
By Katelyn Weisbrod
Q&A: The Sierra Club Embraces Environmental Justice, Forcing a Difficult Internal Reckoning
By Evelyn Nieves
