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Trump made it easier to build gas guzzlers. Will Detroit bite?
The president's rollback of tailpipe regulations comes as the global marketplace shifts to electric vehicles.
‘The industry comes in and kills the work of local citizens’
States and feds are doing little to affect data center growth. People in a Virginia county are pushing back but running into big obstacles.
Democrats launch probe into endangerment finding repeal
Forty-one senators are accusing EPA of treating the repeal as a “foregone conclusion.”
How FEMA is affected by the shutdown
Thousands of disaster workers remained on the job as Homeland Security funding lapsed Saturday. But states could see FEMA reimbursements stall.
Trump derides Newsom and calls his UK deal ‘inappropriate’
President Donald Trump said the "U.K.’s got enough trouble without getting involved with Gavin Newscum."
New Mexico Senate kills bill to codify climate targets
Several Democrats joined Republicans to vote against the Clear Horizons Act, which was based on the governor's executive order to cut emissions in the fossil-fuel-heavy state.
West Virginia is ready to defend Trump’s climate rollback in court
The state solicitor general cited West Virginia's landmark Supreme Court triumph over an Obama-era climate rule as one reason he expects EPA's endangerment finding repeal to survive legal challenge.
North Carolina judge rejects first-of-its-kind climate lawsuit
The case was the first to ask an electric utility to pay to help communities respond to climate change.
EU leaders split on carbon price in push to bolster industry
The EU Emissions Trading System has come under intense pressure from heavy industry for raising energy costs and contributing to plant closures.
São Paulo battles drought and floods together in climate paradox
The crisis affected everything from restaurants to factories, some of which were forced to halt production.
As Trump shreds climate rules, China’s emissions start to fall
The decline in China’s emissions, while small, may mark a turning point for the world’s largest polluter.
ECB fines Credit Agricole $9M over climate, environmental failures
Key risks that the European Central Bank is monitoring include the financial impacts of extreme weather events on physical assets and supply chains.
EPA yanks attacks on climate science from endangerment repeal
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The upshot is that “financial institutions may need to choose between financing growth and maintaining the pace of reducing financed emissions,” the bank said.
