Many climate-change experts say the second Trump administration's focus on the economy exposes Americans to more long-term risks from flooding, wildfires and hurricane winds because it would increase rather than decrease the amount of climate-warming greenhouse gasses the U.S. pumps into the atmosphere.

With the transition to Donald Trump in the White House and Republican control of Congress, federal initiatives and incentives for climate change mitigation will

In 2023, the Maryland Department of the Environment released the Climate Pollution Reduction Plan, requiring the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2045. Let’s lead and make that transition more quickly.

American officials are seeking to assure the world that U.S. climate action won’t end with the return of Donald Trump as president.

In 1996, the IPCC concluded that “the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate”. Controversy around the scientific veracity of this finding was initiated by an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, in which an American physicist accused the lead authors of corrupting the IPCC peer-review process.

The Inflation Reduction Act, passed in 2022, is the single-most effective, far-reaching piece of climate legislation ever enacted by the U.S. Congress. But it is now under threat.

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Energy is fossil fuel executive Chris Wright — who has misleadingly claimed on LinkedIn that “there is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either.”

Clean energy tax breaks, pollution rules and America’s participation in the Paris climate agreement could all be on the chopping block once Donald Trump returns to office.

Officials from developed and developing countries agree that more than $1 trillion a year is needed to finance poorer nations’ response to climate change—but not on who should pay up.

Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), two of the Senate’s most aggressive advocates for action on climate change, said Friday that President-elect Trump’s second term

The Democratic candidates for Arizona Corporation Commission made climate change an issue, but it did them no good in this year's election.