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EPA yanks attacks on climate science from endangerment repeal

6 hours 43 min ago
The agency relied on legal arguments to erase the basis for climate rules, ditching provisions that tried to poke holes in the scientific consensus on global warming.

Trump sidelines climate contrarians in science rollback

6 hours 43 min ago
The president has mocked global warming as a “hoax,” but his administration avoided testing that claim in court as it targeted the endangerment finding.

EPA invites Supreme Court to upend major climate precedent

6 hours 44 min ago
With its repeal of a scientific finding that requires greenhouse gas regulation, the agency has reopened a long-settled legal question over its own authority to act on climate change.

Republicans unmoved by endangerment finding repeal

6 hours 45 min ago
GOP lawmakers who engage in climate issues have been relatively quiet about the decision.

Offshore wind project targeted by Trump will begin operating within weeks

6 hours 45 min ago
Revolution Wind in New England is nearing completion after overcoming Trump administration efforts to halt the project.

Oil industry slams Hawaii effort to hold it liable for insurance hikes

6 hours 46 min ago
The state could become the first to sue fossil fuel companies for emissions that allegedly intensify disasters and lead property insurers to raise premiums.

Draft cap-and-trade rules draw opposition from labor over refineries

6 hours 48 min ago
The opposition exposes a fault line in the environmental, labor and business coalition that helped give California Gov. Gavin Newsom a major win on cap and trade last year.

Barclays says diverging global climate policy puts banks in bind

6 hours 49 min ago
The upshot is that “financial institutions may need to choose between financing growth and maintaining the pace of reducing financed emissions,” the bank said.

Von der Leyen and Merz clash over future of EU’s core climate law

6 hours 49 min ago
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz joined industry in attacking the EU carbon market as Commission President Ursula von der Leyen defended its “clear benefits.”

What if just 1 in 10 people changed how they eat, drive, heat or shop?

6 hours 50 min ago
The Associated Press looked at the impact on emissions if 10 percent of Americans changed four everyday behaviors.

Olympic mascots are color-changing critters vulnerable to climate change

6 hours 50 min ago
The mascots of these Olympics are stoats, weasel-like animals whose fur changes from brown to white for winter, to blend in with the landscape.

EPA repeals endangerment finding

Thu, 02/12/2026 - 1:36pm
The move discards a scientific determination that empowered the government to limit climate pollution.

States target oil giants’ wealth as climate damages rise

Thu, 02/12/2026 - 6:38am
Legislators aim to use climate superfund programs to force oil companies to help cover the cost of global warming. A member of Congress wants to stop them.

Hearing on looming shutdown turns into FEMA fight

Thu, 02/12/2026 - 6:37am
A Federal Emergency Management Agency official told appropriators that funding delays are "more complex than just what’s out there."

12 states debate heat rules as Trump delays action

Thu, 02/12/2026 - 6:36am
Lawmakers from Oklahoma to Massachusetts say workers need protection from deadly heat waves.

Union asks judge to block upcoming FEMA staff cuts

Thu, 02/12/2026 - 6:36am
The American Federation of Government Employees and other groups are trying to stop the Trump administration from further reducing FEMA’s disaster workforce.

China’s emissions fall as US scraps bedrock climate rules

Thu, 02/12/2026 - 6:34am
The country's carbon pollution has plateaued or fallen for 21 months, the longest-ever stretch not associated with a decrease in power demand.

European chemical giants plot to weaken EU’s flagship climate policy

Thu, 02/12/2026 - 6:32am
The ultra-polluting sector says the EU’s carbon price is putting it out of business.

California lawmaker reintroduces bill to expand CARB’s regulatory authority

Thu, 02/12/2026 - 6:30am
AB 1777 would give the agency power to reduce emissions from sources such as warehouses and ports.

Climate change set the stage for Argentina and Chile fires, says study

Thu, 02/12/2026 - 6:30am
The research brings the first scientific assessment of global warming's role in intensifying some of the most serious wildfire emergencies to grip the region in years.

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