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The United States is looking to shoot down a case being heard in front of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). No, it’s not the one launched...
Eleven Republican state attorneys general, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, are suing three of the world’s biggest asset managers....
On Monday night, Donald Trump announced plans to impose sweeping tariffs on some of the United States ‘largest trading partners. Goods imported from...
On Thursday, the House passed a bill that could hand the Trump administration near-unilateral power to strip nonprofit status from...
The Democratic Party is looking for a scapegoat for its disastrous 2024 election performance. As ever, no shortage of pundits and party operatives are...
As destructive as the next Trump administration will be, it’ll be productive in one critical sense: creating lots of things to get mad about. For...
Noted animal mutilator and brain-worm host Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hopes to run the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Health and Human...
The pitch of Bidenomics was that it could solve several problems at once. Laws like the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Inflation Reduction Act,...
Climate voters could end up being an important part of what happens today. That’s a bit surprising considering how little either candidate has...
Two ballot initiatives in Washington state could overturn the state’s trademark climate law and prevent any local or state government from ever...
In an op-ed released this week, Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos rejected speculation that his decision to block the paper from...
An ongoing investigation from The Washington Post reports that U.S. government sanctions are now “targeting a third of all nations with some kind of...
Electric cars got top billing at this year’s Paris Auto Show. At the world’s largest such showcase, a central exhibition hall featured an...
In 2020, BP unveiled a plan to cut oil and gas production 40 percent by 2030 as part of the company’s goal to reach “net-zero” emissions by 2050...
As people across the Southeast continue to pick up the pieces from Hurricane Helene, many will continue to face a rude awakening: that they—or their...
More than 110 people are now believed to have died as a result of Hurricane Helene, the storm that swept through the Southeast over the weekend and...
Earlier this week, the Commerce Department proposed a wide-reaching rule to prohibit Chinese-developed software and connectivity-related hardware from...
Countries and corporations like pledging to reduce methane—in part because reducing methane emissions seems like low-hanging fruit: You can cut a...
On her way to sing at a birthday party last month, Croatian pop star Severina Vučković was stopped and questioned about her political views by...
It’s been a rough couple of weeks for electric vehicles. Stellantis announced this week that it’s suspending production of its all-electric Fiat...
At the presidential debate Tuesday night, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump competed over who liked fracking more. The answer is obviously Trump, but...
On Thursday, The New York Times announced its speaker lineup for a day-long “Climate Forward” event the paper is hosting as part of Climate Week,...
What is ESG? If you’re like most Americans, you don’t really know. Big banks and asset managers have come under fire from the right in recent...
Last Sunday, after a stretch of relentless rain caused by an “atmospheric river,” a hillside above Ketchikan, Alaska, gave way and slid into town....
At the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, for the first time all week, climate change was a major topic on the main stage. “An American...
Kamala Harris has made tackling corporate price-gouging and raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy cornerstones of her economic platform. She...
As the world experiences what could be its hottest year on record, the right-wing groups behind the Project 2025 policy roadmap for a second Trump...
This week marks two years since Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, arguably the Biden administration’s signature legislative achievement....
Since touching down off Florida’s Gulf Coast Monday, Hurricane Debby has claimed four lives in the state, dumped more than a foot of rain across the...
Kamala Harris’s vice presidential pick probably won’t make a huge difference to the fate of the planet. That said, Tim Walz is better than many...
Earlier this month, NATO released the latest edition of its “Climate Change and Security Impact Assessment.” It stands to reason that the...
Senior Democrats, led by the Biden administration, have for years broadcast endless confidence in their party’s ability to achieve the by now...
Climate and energy policy barely came up in last week’s debate between President Biden and Donald Trump. That might have been a good thing....
It’s hard to overstate how bad this week has been for (among many other things) environmental regulations. On their own, the Supreme Court’s...
Last week, to protest new oil and gas licensing, two members of the group Just Stop Oil sprayed Stonehenge orange. People got mad, demanding lengthy...
Last year, Texas’s state legislature passed a measure known not so affectionately by opponents as the “Death Star” bill. The Texas Regulatory...
It is really, really hot in many parts of the United States, and only getting hotter. Some 94 million people across the U.S. have been under heat...
Sometime this month, the Supreme Court is likely to overturn something known as the Chevron deference, which grants federal agencies the authority to...
Every year on the Fourth of July, millions of Americans tune in to watch the world’s top competitive eaters scarf down an ungodly number of hot dogs...
On Tuesday, a jury in South Florida found Chiquita Brands liable for the deaths of eight people killed by the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia...