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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.

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.
Trump has attacked renewable power from every angle, but energy justice scholar Sanya Carley envisions an affordable green future.

A Permian Basin landowner alleges in a lawsuit that saltwater injection wells contributed to well blow-outs that caused extensive pollution on his property.

Houston has its own Climate Action Plan to meet Paris Agreement targets, set in motion when Trump announced his first withdrawal from the UN treaty in 2017.
To keep the lights on, states like New York and Massachusetts will need to build projects that are currently “impossible.”

Judgment in The Hague orders Netherlands to do more to protect Caribbean people in its territory from impacts of climate crisis.

A year into Trump’s second term, critics say the EPA is rolling back dozens of protections and giving a leg up to polluters.

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