Most in U.S. want more action
ByMatthewDaly andNuha Dolby
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON>> Nearly twothirds of Americans think the federal government is not doing enough to fight climate change, according to a new poll that shows limited public awareness about a sweeping new law that commi...
By Christopher Flavelle
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WASHINGTON » The new infrastructure law signed by President Joe Biden includes almost $50 billion to protect communities against climate change, the largest such investment in U.S. history and a recognition that the effects of warming are ou...
By Ellen Knickmeyer, Emily Swanson and Nathan Ellgren The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden heads to a vital U.N. climate summit at a time when a majority of Americans regard the deteriorating climate as a problem of high importance to them, an increas...
By Christopher Flavelle
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The Biden administration Thursday announced a record injection of money to help communities gird against the effects of climate change, as disasters continue to pummel the United States.
The new funds — $3.5 billion in grants to sta...
By Ian Silverii
Columnist for The Denver Post
Colorado is a national leader in renewable energy and fighting human-caused climate change.
In 2004, clean energy advocates and environmentalists took Amendment 37 to the ballot, establishing a 10% renewable energy standard, and won.
The amen...
PARIS - Dozens of city mayors from around the world -- including Washington, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo and Sydney -- on Monday called on G20 leaders to stick to their commitments on tackling climate change.
In a joint text distributed to media outlets worldwide and posted online, the "C40" mayors "of th...
Global temperatures could break through the 1.5°C barrier negotiated at the Paris conference as early as 2026 if a slow-moving, natural climate driver known as the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) has, as suspected, moved into a positive phase.
New research published in Geophysical Res...
President Trump signed an executive order rolling back climate progress. The executive order instructs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to rewrite the Clean Power Plan, the single largest step the U.S. has taken to limit climate change. The order also lifts the moratorium on federal coal lea...
If there's one thing we know for sure our new president and the people he appointed to "make America great again" are willing to lie to get what they want and should not be trusted.
Donald Trump's choice to run the Environmental Protection Agency has admitted that climate change has not real.
Scot...
As the dust settled on the arid grounds at the closing of COP22 in Marrakech – with the ripple effects of the monumental U.S. election hovering in the air – a sense of determination and resolve persisted. Nearly one year after the world came together to forge the groundbreaking Paris Climate Agreeme...
By Todd Stern
Todd Stern was the U.S. special envoy for climate change from 2009 until April 2016.
Trump is wrong about the Paris Climate Agreement. I know because I negotiated it.
Donald Trump vows that once in office, he’s “going to cancel the Paris climate agreement,” wh...
Donald Trump has said that one of the top priorities for his presidency would be to remove the United States from international agreements to curb greenhouse gas emissions
In particular, Trump has said he would renege on the historic Paris climate pact. In addition, he has selected Myron Ebell...
Although our electorate has succumbed to Donald Trump's siren song about immigrants threatening America, we cannot afford to give in to despair. The real existential threat continues to loom. We need to wean the economy off fossil fuel immediately, and this cannot happen without the c...
Nearly 200 nations have reached a deal to limit the use of greenhouse gasses in a major effort to fight climate change.
The agreement announced Saturday morning caps and reduces the use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, in a gradual process beginning in 2019.
Experts say cutting ...
Searing summers, rising seas, devastating storms and deadly floods. These are just some of the current and anticipated impacts of climate change. The recent "Paris Agreement," signed by 191 governments under a United Nations convention, calls for curbing greenhouse gas emissions. The goal is to keep...
As Obama prepares to leave the White House, he leaves behind a strong, yet unfinished, climate change legacy.
Recently, the US and China formally joined the Paris Agreement, a global carbon-reduction initiative adopted by 190 countries last December. It was a major joint announcement that show...
In a move many are hailing as a “turning point” in the climate fight, 20 state Attorneys General on Tuesday launched an unprecedented, multi-state effort to investigate and prosecute the “high-funded and morally vacant forces” that have stymied attempts to combat global warming—starting with ho...
As the COP21 climate negotiations draw to a close in Paris, complicated questions remain about how the accord will be carried out over the coming years.
Negotiators from 195 countries seem close to hammering out a deal that could limit global warming to a maximum of 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahre...
Last week, President Obama released a plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants. Climate change has also been cropping up on the presidential campaign trail — both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have released their own proposals.
Nearly three-quarters of Americans now favor government acti...
The vast majority of US senators have agreed that climate change is real, a result of a vote on Wednesday that saw 98 members of the Senate vote in favor of an amendment to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline bill that declares that climate change is "not a hoax."&nb...
