It’s true that President-Elect Donald Trump prefers golf courses and MAGA merch to national parks and wildlife; he’s a noted climate change denier and shameless booster of dirty fossil fuels. It’s also true that those character flaws weren’t the same ones that got him reelected.
President Joe Biden is making an urgent appeal to fellow world leaders to surge money to developing nations to curb climate change as he wraps up his final appearance at a major international summit
The president-elect’s return to the White House in January could erase many US efforts to combat climate change.
Chris Wright, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Energy Department, has denied the well-established connection between climate change and extreme weather, claiming that storms are
George David Banks, a Trump adviser during his first term in office who has since been working with lawmakers and outside groups on developing climate trade policies, predicted the center of activity would in the next Congress will be around legislation from Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), S. 3198, the “Foreign Pollution Fee Act.”
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.
Let’s not sugarcoat things. The outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election represents a setback for climate action. The incoming administration has been very clear that it does not prioritize confronting climate change,
Four counties in Florida that voted for Trump also voted to conserve open space, reduce flood damage and protect habitat
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