Kids Sued Montana over Climate Change and Won
Climate activists say the ruling in favor of youth who sued Montana sends the signal that the courts can provide a “viable and powerful” strategy for battling climate change...
Climate activists say the ruling in favor of youth who sued Montana sends the signal that the courts can provide a “viable and powerful” strategy for battling climate change...
The president is close to fulfilling his promise to cut carbon pollution in half, but everything has to go right
Major climate models agree that the Inflation Reduction Act was a “huge step forward” in cutting U.S. emissions
Wind and solar produced more U.S. power than coal during the first five months of this year, as several coal plants closed and gas prices dropped
The nation’s first climate trial, led by kids, will open on Monday in Montana but could have ramifications outside the state’s borders...
Oil companies can’t be trusted in times of disaster; just ask an Alaskan
The EPA has announced new draft rules that would require power plants that burn fossil fuels to capture 90 percent of their climate-warming emissions
Aggressive restrictions will affect carbon, smog and soot emissions from compact cars all the way up to long-haul trucks
The greenhouse gas intensity of offshore oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico could be twice as much as government estimates
Some countries have used up far more of the world’s carbon budget—the amount we can emit and still avoid more extreme climate disruption—than others
The U.S. is in a better place to reach its climate goals after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and the bipartisan infrastructure bill, but the implementation of pollution rules and the outcome of the 2024 election could pose major hurdles...
Scientists say countries need to cut emissions far deeper to prevent catastrophic warming. That fact will hang over delegates when they meet later this year at the annual U.N. climate talks...
The IPCC’s latest climate assessment says the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent by 2035, but the U.S. is already behind on a less ambitious target...
The Nord Stream pipeline explosions happened in a dumping ground for chemical warfare, but other contaminants proved most toxic to marine life
Texas education officials adopted changes to internal guidance on textbooks that could steer schools to buy books that misinform students about global warming
A coalition of environmental and Indigenous groups is suing the Biden administration over the approval of the Willow oil- and gas-drilling project in Alaska, arguing the government failed to consider the climate risks, as well as harm to wildlife and subsistence hunting...
India is at an energy crossroads: if it chooses fossil fuels, it could undermine global climate targets
Oil and gas facilities will soon be charged for releasing methane, but technologies to capture the potent greenhouse gas are still relatively new and untested
Scientists working for the oil giant Exxon in the 1970s and 1980s estimated temperature increases with remarkable accuracy. Those findings could now be used as evidence in climate litigation...
Though renewable energy surpassed coal generation for the first time in 60 years, causing U.S. power emissions to decline, emissions from buildings and transportation went up in 2022
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