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Emergency crews continued to pull motorists and others from high water Friday after the remnants of Tropical Storm Imelda soaked the Houston area, leaving at least two people dead and prompting hundreds of rescues for people trapped during a relentless downpour that drew comparisons to Hurricane Harvey two years ago.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters in Australia, many of them children who skipped school, kicked off a day of demonstrations around the world against climate change in the run-up to a U.N. summit in New York.
President Trump on Wednesday said his administration will revoke California’s unilateral push to set car emissions standards, saying a federal benchmark should take precedence.
People on Bermuda rushed to make final preparations for an expected close brush with Hurricane Humberto, a powerful Category 3 storm that caused authorities on the British Atlantic island to order early closings of schools, transportation and government offices.
The Trump administration is poised to revoke California’s authority to set auto mileage standards, asserting that only the federal government has the power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy.
A liberal pro-democracy group filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration for documents regarding “attempts to politicize” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said climate change is responsible for the country’s immigration crisis and that “walling ourselves off” isn’t the solution.
Global energy prices spiked on Monday after a weekend attack on key oil facilities in Saudi Arabia caused the worst disruption to world supplies on record, an assault for which President Donald Trump warned that the U.S. was “locked and loaded” to respond.
Beachgoers on the southeastern U.S. coast should be wary of potentially dangerous rip currents caused by Hurricane Humberto, the National Hurricane Center said Sunday.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he will buck Democratic legislative leaders by vetoing legislation aimed at stopping the Trump administration from weakening oversight of longstanding federal environmental laws in California.
Pacific Gas & Electric and a group of insurers announced Friday they reached an $11 billion settlement to cover most of the claims from wildfires in California in 2017 and 2018.
The Trump administration plans to revoke an Obama-era regulation that provided federal protection to many U.S. wetlands and streams, according to two Environmental Protection Agency officials with knowledge of the plan.
Ahead of the Democratic presidential debate, several Greenpeace activists on Thursday dangled on ropes beneath the Fred Hartman Bridge to block oil freighter traffic in the Houston Shipping Channel.
Director James Cameron says his wealthy environmentalist friends need to “wake the f— up” and stop “assuaging our liberal guilt” with Tesla and Prius purchases instead of making fundamental lifestyle changes.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied instructing an aide to urge a federal agency to repudiate weather forecasters who contradicted his claim that Hurricane Dorian could hit Alabama.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday it will investigate a “political” statement’s released last week that “incorrectly” supported President Trump’s claims that Hurricane Dorian would pose a threat to Alabama.
Severe weather, including a probable tornado, struck eastern South Dakota leaving a trail of damaged buildings, downed power lines, fallen trees and some reports of injuries, officials said Wednesday.
Federal authorities have arrested former officials of the Federal Emergency Management Authority and the former president of a major disaster relief contractor, accusing them of bribery and fraud as the U.S. territory struggled to recover from Hurricane Maria.
President Trump on Monday defended his administration’s decision to roll back Bush-era regulations set to go into effect next year mandating more energy-efficient lightbulbs.
Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer on Monday circulated an analysis of his climate change plan that showed it would create millions of jobs and boost union membership in the construction sector.
That’s not rose flowing from your faucet. The tap water in parts of New York’s capital is turning pink, but officials say it’s perfectly safe to drink.
Hurricane Dorian came ashore Friday morning at Cape Hatteras on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, marking its first U.S. landfall since it slammed into the Bahamas days ago.
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday said he’s committed to not raising money from fossil fuel executives, at a fundraiser that had been co-hosted by the founder of a natural gas company.
After triggering tornadoes in South Carolina, Hurricane Dorian was closing in for a possible direct hit Friday on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, a string of low-lying islands, even as it weakened to a Category 1 storm.
Hurricane Dorian unleashed flooding, high winds and tornadoes Thursday along the East Coast, leaving more than 250,000 homes and businesses in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas without power.
Instead of debating how many trillions the Green Deal will cost, House Republicans have a suggestion for Democrats: Pass a slew of GOP-backed bills aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions without razing the U.S. economy and energy sector.
Radio host Mark Levin told listeners this week that “lives will change forever” in America if citizens fail to see the Green New Deal for what it really is: “It’s the old Red movement dressed up as a Green movement.”
Viewers were not particularly thrilled with CNN’s marathon seven-hour town hall on climate change, which aired Wednesday night.
General Motors CEO Mary Barra is meeting with President Trump at the White House Thursday afternoon for a discussion expected to cover the trade war with China and the administration’s proposal for revising fuel economy standards.
Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke is petitioning the Trump administration to waive visa requirements for people fleeing Hurricane Dorian.
Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, on Thursday predicted that there is a coming “reckoning” over the long-running ties between religion and political conservatism.
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s left eye appeared to fill with blood during Wednesday’s CNN town hall on “the climate crisis,” raising questions about his health.
Coastal communities across South and North Carolina scrambled Wednesday to prepare for the wind and rain of Hurricane Dorian, which forecasters predicted would come ashore on Thursday.
With its town hall Wednesday on climate change, CNN joined nearly 200 media outlets vowing to increase their coverage of the “climate crisis,” raising concerns that the real crisis may be less about rising temperatures than the erosion of journalistic objectivity.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday applauded the “arms race” that he said has developed among the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders to lay out aggressive plans to tackle climate change, which had been the signature issue of his own since-ended bid for the White House.
Sen. Kamala D. Harris on Wednesday rolled out a $10 trillion plan to tackle climate change that sets a goal of exceeding targets laid out by the Paris Agreement and achieving a “clean” economy by 2045.
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday unveiled his plan to tackle climate change that includes a new role devoted to the issue within the Defense Department and World War II-style “climate action” bonds, among other priorities.
Bahamians rescued victims of Hurricane Dorian with jet skis and a bulldozer as the U.S. Coast Guard, Britain’s Royal Navy and a handful of aid groups tried to get food and medicine to survivors and take the most desperate people to safety.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blamed global warming for Hurricane Dorian and also implied Tuesday night that the storm was classist and racist.
A leading trade group for the petroleum industry warned President Trump on Tuesday to ditch his plan to boost ethanol production, saying it would be a “disastrous political decision.”
Sen. Cory A. Booker on Tuesday unveiled a $3 trillion plan to combat climate change with a goal of building a “carbon neutral” economy by 2045.
Hurricane Dorian came to a catastrophic daylong halt over the northwest Bahamas, flooding the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama with walls of water that lapped into the second floors of buildings, trapped people in attics and drowned the Grand Bahama airport under 6 feet of water. At least five people died and 21 injured people were airlifted to the capital by the U.S. Coast Guard, Bahamas officials said.
After years of destructive blazes, the U.S. wildfire season has been blessedly below average, and the Trump administration wants to keep it that way.
Virginia’s governor is declaring a state of emergency as Hurricane Dorian appears headed for the East Coast
Hurricane Dorian hovered over the Bahamas on Monday, pummeling the islands with a fearsome Category 4 assault that shredded roofs, hurled cars and forced even rescue crews to take shelter until the onslaught passes.
Hurricane Dorian slammed into the Bahamas Sunday at Category 5 strength as debate raged over the Trump administration’s decision to divert disaster-relief funds to immigration enforcement.
Hurricane Dorian powered toward Florida with increasing fury Friday, becoming an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm but leaving forecasters uncertain whether it would make a direct hit on the state’s east coast or inflict a glancing blow.
President Trump said Friday his own Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida appears to be “dead center” in the path of Hurricane Dorian but that it can “handle itself.”
A coalition of conservative groups announced its support Friday for the Trump administration’s proposed revised tailpipe emission standards, following decisions by several automakers to side with California’s stricter fuel-economy requirements.
The Trump administration on Friday slapped sanctions on two Taiwan-based individuals and several shipping companies for providing oil shipments to North Korea in violation of U.N. sanctions.
Unsure where Hurricane Dorian is going to land next week, many Florida residents faced a sense of helplessness as they prepared for what President Donald Trump said could be an “absolute monster” of a storm.
She’s the biggest climate celebrity since Al Gore, but Sweden’s Greta Thunberg made her triumphant arrival in New York City for a month of activism amid rising concerns over whether the pig-tailed teen is a global-warming prophet or a political pawn.
Climate activists often warn that global warming is stoking forest fires, but it turns out the amount of land burned by wildfires worldwide has plummeted by 25% since 2003, according to NASA.
President Trump said Thursday he’s preparing to announce a “giant package” to boost demand for ethanol, responding to rising concerns in rural America about the administration’s exemptions for refineries from blending biofuels, which is required under the nation’s ethanol mandate.
