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The fight over control of the Federal Reserve has revolved around interest rates and inflation, but President Donald Trump’s choice to be the bank’s next chair could sway how the agency assesses climate risks, too.
The researchers produced a report that was central in a Trump administration effort to stop regulating climate pollution.
The Trump administration’s hands-off approach to the fight over the Colorado River has left states careening towards a crisis — and it's not clear that Interior Secretary Doug Burgum can turn them around.
Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation could also force ultra-rich to pay global wealth tax.
The groups call on Manitoba to scale up climate action, including investment in energy efficiency initiatives, transit and conservation.
Major emitter the US has officially left the Paris Agreement and global emissions keep rising a decade on from the deal. Yet renewables' growth shows climate action can work. Here's what's been done and what's missing.
Trump officials have delayed finalizing the repeal of the agency’s “endangerment finding” over concerns the proposal is too weak to withstand a court challenge.
A sprawling winter storm that left hundreds of thousands without power, grounded thousands of flights and disrupted travel across the eastern half of the U.S. could be the first real test of the second Trump administration’s Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The U.S. Forest Service announced revisions to its oil and gas leasing rules today that the agency promises “modernizes and streamlines” the permitting process to drill for fossil fuels in the nation’s forests and grasslands.
Projects in development expected to grow global capacity by nearly 50% amid growing concern over impact on planet.
Clean transportation led the way while renewable energy spending decreased.
The declaration coincides with U.S. fossil fuel companies’ use of Trump’s trade tensions and international discord to undermine EU climate laws.
A rare spot of global climate agreement could prevent up to half a degree of warming this century.
The reduction in the agency’s leadership ranks comes amid an internal restructuring and exodus of thousands of employees.
A new report argues that English-only climate science and disaster alerts are excluding most of the world, and putting Indigenous communities at greater risk.
Science in the Arctic — and Greenland — is on the frontline of pressing challenges facing humanity, like climate change and genetics. Some researchers worry international collaboration is at risk.
The president’s assaults on wind and solar projects could become a playbook for disrupting fossil fuel plans in the future.
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