Medical groups warn climate change is a ‘health emergency’
Public health groups are pressing presidential candidates to strengthen U.S. commitments under the 2015 United Nations climate agreement from which Trump has vowed to withdraw.
Militia threat shuts down Oregon Statehouse amid walkout
The Oregon Capitol will be closed Saturday due to a “possible militia threat” from right-wing protesters as a walkout by Republican lawmakers over landmark climate change legislation drags on.
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Despite Trump’s more lenient emissions rules, coal industry faces uphill battle
President Trump is keeping a signature pledge to roll back environmental regulations as part of his goal of boosting the coal industry. His new Affordable Clean Energy rule favors incremental improvements and grants discretion to individual states to determine whether…
EPA guts Obama rule on coal power plants
The final Trump administration rule that would replace Obama's Clean Power Plan would give individual states wide discretion to decide whether to require efficiency upgrades at coal-fired power plants.
The apportioning of credit and blame went awry in President Donald Trump’s remarks over the past week.
In a year when floods, hurricanes and wildfires have devastated parts of the United States, climate change has been polling as a top issue in the 2020 Democratic primaries. All 23 of the party’s current candidates agree that this global…
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee expressed willingness to use tariffs, other trade incentives and international finance rules to compel other nations to reduce carbon pollution.
"Several citations, some from sources cited in other parts of the plan, were inadvertently left out of the final version of the 22-page document," Biden's campaign said.
The group of young people suing say U.S. energy policies are causing climate change and hurting their future.
