How Trump Has Undermined U.S. Climate Policy President Trump has quickly transformed America’s approach to the environment, withholding funds and stretching the limits of presidential power.
Trump’s Plan to Repeal Climate Policy Could Upend Shift to Electric Cars The administration is setting the stage for Congress to repeal a longstanding waiver that allows California to set its own pollution standards. State officials say the effort is illegal.
Europe Relaxes Rules on Company Climate Reports Officials are seeking to boost competitiveness and reduce the regulatory burden on businesses during what a European commissioner called a “perilous” time.
Faith groups’ environmental projects halted by Trump’s climate funding freeze (RNS) — More than 300 faith communities have lost access to grant funds that were intended to plant trees in disadvantaged urban communities, environmental faith leaders who managed the grants told RNS. The post Faith groups’ environmental projects halted by Trump’s climate funding freeze appeared first on RNS.
Climate group that called for ‘free Palestine’ stripped of federal funding A grassroots environmental alliance that called for a “free Palestine” has lost the more than $50 million it was supposed to receive under the Biden administration’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act. The Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) became the target of conservative attacks after advocating for a ceasefire in Gaza, and a grou…
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S.E.C. Moves to Kill Climate Disclosure Rule The acting chair, Mark Uyeda, is directing the Securities and Exchange Commission to pause its legal defense of a rule requiring companies to make climate disclosures.
FEMA’s website started deleting ‘climate change’ The term “climate change” has started to vanish from Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) website. Its former “climate resilience” website has been rebranded under the title “future conditions.” There are still subtle references to climate change there, but it’s more of a whisper than an urgent warning as it was before. The edits come as…
How Trump’s Trade War Could Affect Climate Change President Trump’s tariffs could threaten supply chains in the renewable energy industry and disrupt oil and gas markets.
Donald Trump pulls US out of Paris climate agreement Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty ImagesDonald Trump has once again taken the US out of the landmark Paris climate agreement, abandoning the global effort to limit climate change. Trump signed an executive order today to exit. The Paris accord was adopted in 2015, committing nearly 200 countries including the US to working together to stop…
Ahead of Trump Presidency, the Fed Quits Global Climate Network Federal Reserve Bank officials said the decision to leave the network came after the group’s work had “increasingly broadened in scope.”
I’m a Climate Scientist. I Fled Los Angeles Two Years Ago. After the Bobcat Fire, L.A. no longer felt safe.
How New York state is defying Donald Trump’s plans to roll back climate action NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – 2023/06/29: Governor Kathy Hochul speaks during a press briefing at office on 3rd Avenue in Manhattan. | Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty ImagesNew York governor Kathy Hochul signed landmark climate legislation into law last week, showing how states can keep holding polluters accountable even when …
Trump’s Plans to Scrap Climate Policies Has Unnerved Green Energy Investors President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to roll back many of the rules and subsidies that have attracted billions of dollars from the private sector to renewable energy and electric vehicles.
Removing Carbon From the Sky Could Be the Next Climate Gold Rush Investors are betting that they can make a dent in global warming, and healthy profits, with companies that alter the atmosphere.
The proposed climate fix tech companies just spent millions on? Rocks. Terradot’s pilot program in Brazil involves spreading crushed basalt over farmland. | Image: TerradotTo try to counteract the impact their pollution has on the climate, Google and other big companies have bought into a plan to trap carbon dioxide using rocks. They recently announced multimillion dollar deals with a Sheryl Sandberg-backed startup…
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How the Climate Movement Is Changing Tactics After Trump’s Win Faced with a president-elect who has called global warming a “scam,” activists are changing their strategies and pushing a message of hope.
As Teenagers, They Protested Trump’s Climate Policy. Now What? Some young climate activists who were galvanized under Donald Trump’s first presidency are taking a different approach to his second.
North Carolina Town Sues Duke Energy Over Climate Change Carrboro accused Duke, one the nation’s largest utility companies, of ignoring data about climate change while increasing use of fossil fuels.
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