Politics & Policy

Not Waiting for Public Comment, Trump Administration Schedules Lease Sale for Arctic Wildlife Refuge

Environmental groups blasted the move and warned that petroleum companies bidding on leases will face legal battles “fraught with high costs and reputational risks.”

By Sabrina Shankman

United Nations Chief Warns of a ‘Moment of Truth for People and Planet’

By Bob Berwyn

In Georgia, 16 Superfund Sites Are Threatened by Extreme Weather Linked to Climate Change

By David Hasemyer

Newsom’s Top Five Candidates for Kamala Harris’s Senate Seat All Have Climate in Their Bios

By Evelyn Nieves

As Special Envoy for Climate, John Kerry Will Be No Stranger to International Climate Negotiations

By Phil McKenna

Biden’s Appointment of John Kerry as Climate Envoy Sends a ‘Signal to the World,’ Advocates Say

By Marianne Lavelle

Is Climate-Related Financial Regulation Coming Under Biden? Wall Street Is Betting on It

By Kristoffer Tigue

An Unlikely Alliance of Farm and Environmental Groups Takes on Climate Change

By Georgina Gustin

Vintners and Farmers Are Breathing Easier After the Demise of Proposition 15, a ‘Headache’ at Best

By Evelyn Nieves

Trump Rolled Back 100+ Environmental Rules. Biden May Focus on Undoing Five of the Biggest Ones

By Marianne Lavelle

Senate 2020: The Loeffler-Warnock Senate Runoff in Georgia Offers Extreme Contrasts on Climate

By James Bruggers

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

Young Voters, Motivated by Climate Change and Environmental Justice, Helped Propel Biden’s Campaign

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

Five Things To Know About Fracking in Pennsylvania. Are Voters Listening?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

When Trump’s EPA Needed a Climate Scientist, They Called on John Christy

By Marianne Lavelle, By MARIANNE LAVELLE, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS, AND DENNIS PILLION, AL.COM

Trump's Interior Department Pressures Employees to Approve Seismic Testing in ANWR

By Sabrina Shankman