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Zeldin Celebrates Endangerment Finding Repeal With Climate Skeptics

Casting doubt on the determination that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare, he said, “we’re not accepting all of the narrative of the left without any question or pushback.”

By Gabriel Matias Castilho

 Lee Zeldin, keynote speaker at the Heartland Institute’s 16th International Conference on Climate Change, thanks attendees for electing Donald Trump. Credit: Gabriel Castilho/Inside Climate News
Workers survey the damage after flash floods collapsed a bridge in St. Johnsbury, Vt. Credit: Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

As Vermont Defends Its Law to Make Fossil Fuel Firms Pay for Climate Adaptation, the Bill Is Already Coming Due

By Dana Drugmand, Nathaniel Eisen
Pat Parenteau worked to secure protections for the whooping crane when the “God Squad” first met 50 years ago. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Why Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Is Not Like the God Squads Before It

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth
Representatives from countries around the world gather for the 64th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Bangkok on March 26. Credit: IPCC

Global Climate Panel Faces Strife, Potential Funding Crunch

By Bob Berwyn
A construction crew works on Shell’s Vito platform at the Kiewit Offshore Services complex on April 6, 2022, in Ingleside, Texas. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles

By Kiley Price
Kathy Love, director of the Alabama Surface Mining Commission, speaks during a discussion highlighting the consequences of longwall coal mining at Oak Grove High School in August 2024. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Two Years After Fatal Explosion, Alabama Mine Regulator ‘Letting the Fox Guard the Henhouse,’ Resident Says

By Lee Hedgepeth
Sen. Susan Collins enters the U.S. Captiol on Jan. 27 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Heather Diehl/Getty Images

Susan Collins and Climate Change: ‘The Silence is Deafening’

By Nathaniel Eisen
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks to the media on Feb. 10 in New York City. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

New York’s Governor Pushes to Delay a Key Portion of the State’s Climate Law

By Lauren Dalban
The industrial landscape of Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood. Credit: Michael Lofenfeld via Getty Images

The Fight Over New Jersey’s Tough Environmental Justice Law Is Now in the Courts

By Emilie Lounsberry
U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on March 4 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Heather Diehl/Getty Images

The Latest Front in the Battle Over Climate Lawsuits: Bills Wiping Out Liability

By Dana Drugmand
Native Hawaiian elder and activist, Solomon Pili Kahoʻohalahala, is calling for a ban on a prospective commercial deep sea mining industry. Credit: John Wolfsohn/Getty Images

‘We Live in One Ocean’: Native Hawaiian Activist Calls for Inclusion in Deep-Sea Mining Decisions

By Teresa Tomassoni
The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is seen on Dec. 30, 2025. Credit: Heather Diehl/Getty Images

One Year After Green Bank’s Demise, Court Mulls Future of Grant-Based Climate Policy

By Marianne Lavelle
Heavy traffic is seen on Interstate 110 in Los Angeles on Feb. 13. Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the EPA has stopped enforcing the Clean Air Act under the second Trump administration. Credit: Apu Gomes/Getty Images

Trump’s EPA Claims Strong Enforcement. But the Data Tells a Different Story.

By Wyatt Myskow, Lisa Sorg
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce headquarters in Washington, D.C. Credit: J. David Ake/Getty Images

‘Sound Science’ Bills Limiting State Environmental Regulations Set ‘Insurmountable Burden of Proof,’ Scientists Say

By Dennis Pillion
Vanuatu’s Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu speaks to the media after an International Court of Justice session on states’ legal obligations to address climate change in The Hague, Netherlands, on July 23, 2025. Credit: John Thys/AFP via Getty Images

An Island Nation in the South Pacific Leads the Latest Push for Climate Justice at the UN

By Bob Berwyn
Signal Peak Energy’s Bull Mountains Mine is the only longwall coal mine in Montana. Aerial support provided by LightHawk.

New Lawsuit Aims to Halt Expansion of a Montana Coal Mine Blamed for Drying up the Land Above It

Story and photos by Jake Bolster
A view of the stacks at the coal-fired Mill Creek Generating Station on Feb. 14 in Louisville, Ky. Environmental and health groups have sued the Trump administration to block its repeal of the endangerment finding, which concluded that greenhouses gases endanger public health. Credit: Jon Cherry/Getty Images

Scientists, Engineers and Legal Experts Condemn Partisan Attack on Scientific Reference Manual for Judges

By Liza Gross
A view of the coal-fired Mill Creek Generating Station on Feb. 14 from the Valley Village neighborhood in Louisville, Ky. Credit: Jon Cherry/Getty Images

Without Weighing Costs to Public Health, EPA Rolls Back Air Pollution Standards for Coal Plants

By Kiley Bense
A Bonaire resident sheds a tear before the Hague District Court ruled that the Netherlands breached human rights on Jan. 28. Credit: Laurens Van Putten/ANP/AFP via Getty Images

A Tiny Caribbean Island Sued the Netherlands Over Climate Change, and Won

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

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