• WATCH: Biden to re-nominate Powell as Fed chair, Brainard gets vice chair

    WATCH: Biden to re-nominate Powell as Fed chair, Brainard gets vice chair

    Nov 22, 2021 04:15 PM EDT

    ... two other senators expressed opposition to Powell last week because they said he was insufficiently committed to using the Fed's regulatory tools to combat global warming. Brainard, meanwhile, cast 20 dissenting votes against financial rule changes in the past four years. In March 2020, she opposed a regulatory change ...

  • WATCH: Pelosi holds briefing while divided House debates Dems' expansive social, climate bill

    WATCH: Pelosi holds briefing while divided House debates Dems' expansive social, climate bill

    Nov 18, 2021 09:32 PM EDT

    ... the measure's roughly $555 billion in tax credits and other costs to encourage cleaner energy need not be paid for in the bill because global warming is an existential crisis. Critics have said the bill's overall cost would exceed $4 trillion if Democrats hadn't made temporary some ...

  • Air pollution prompts school closures as India capital considers lockdown

    Air pollution prompts school closures as India capital considers lockdown

    Nov 17, 2021 05:09 PM EDT

    The importance of coal to India was underlined just days ago at the world climate talks in Scotland, where almost 200 nations accepted a compromise deal to fight global warming. It contained a last-minute change sought by India that watered down crucial language about coal. The agreement as amended ...

  • Days after climate talks, companies bid $192 million in 1st Gulf oil sale under Biden

    Days after climate talks, companies bid $192 million in 1st Gulf oil sale under Biden

    Nov 16, 2021 11:30 PM EDT

    ... the way to cutting greenhouse gas emissions to avoid catastrophic climate change. Yet even as Biden has tried to cajole other world leaders into strengthening international efforts against global warming, including at this month's climate talks in Scotland, he's had difficulty gaining ground on climate issues at home.

  • Climate summit ends with a divide remaining between rich and poor nations

    Climate summit ends with a divide remaining between rich and poor nations

    Nov 14, 2021 05:52 PM EDT

    The United Nations Climate Summit or COP26 in Scotland ended with a final agreement coming after an extra day of debate. Sticking points included fossil fuel subsidies and climate finance. Developing nations urged the developed world to do more to mitigate global warming – and help poorer, more vulnerable nations adapt ...

  • Nations compromise on coal to strike UN climate agreement

    Nations compromise on coal to strike UN climate agreement

    Nov 13, 2021 10:04 PM EDT

    ... that developing countries were “entitled to the responsible use of fossil fuels.” Yadav blamed “unsustainable lifestyles and wasteful consumption patterns” in rich countries for causing global warming. After Yadav first raised the specter of changing the coal language, a frustrated European Union Vice President Frans Timmermans, the 27-nation EU ...

  • The off-season sights and sounds of Acadia National Park

    The off-season sights and sounds of Acadia National Park

    Nov 13, 2021 09:58 PM EDT

    ... he’s incorporating research on climate change into the project, which will also be his next book. As in almost every corner of the earth, global warming is being felt here, changing the food habitat and ranges of birds. Rich MacDonald: People come here and always ask me, we want ...

  • Climate consensus appears near; India objects to coal plans

    Climate consensus appears near; India objects to coal plans

    Nov 13, 2021 05:42 PM EDT

    ... submit a short-term update next year. The proposed agreement states that in order to achieve the 2015 Paris accord’s ambitious goal of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) by the end of the century compared with pre-industrial times, countries will need to ...

  • Climate talks go past deadline over coal, cash

    Climate talks go past deadline over coal, cash

    Nov 12, 2021 10:00 PM EDT

    ... warming. According to the proposed decision, countries plan to express “alarm and utmost concern” that human activities have already caused around 1.1C (2F) of global warming “and that impacts are already being felt in every region.” While the Paris accord calls for limiting temperature to “well below” 2C (3 ...

  • Climate talks soften stance on fossil fuel phaseout

    Climate talks soften stance on fossil fuel phaseout

    Nov 12, 2021 02:46 PM EDT

    ... warming. According to the proposed decision, countries plan to express “alarm and utmost concern” that human activities have already caused around 1.1C (2F) of global warming “and that impacts are already being felt in every region.”While the Paris accord calls for limiting temperature to “well below” 2C (3 ...