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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.
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.
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.
Leaving mercifully little damage in its wake in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, a strengthening Hurricane Dorian posed an increasing menace to Florida on Thursday as it swirled toward a possible direct hit on the state over Labor Day weekend.
President Trump has continually praised farmers and ranchers as “great patriots” who are willingly enduring the lost markets and declining crop prices as he seeks to force China to renegotiate fair trade terms for the U.S. But there are increasing signs their patience is running out.
Dorian became a Category 1 hurricane on Wednesday as it struck the U.S. Virgin Islands, with forecasters saying it could grow to Category 3 status as it nears the U.S. mainland as early as the weekend.
It could be lights out for tiny toiletries. Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel chain, said Wednesday it will eliminate small plastic bottles of shampoo, conditioner and bath gel from its hotel rooms worldwide by December 2020. They’ll be replaced with larger bottles or wall-mounted dispensers, depending on the hotel.
The Tennessee Valley Authority, long respected for providing good jobs and cheap electricity, is facing a growing backlash over its handling of a massive coal ash spill a decade ago, with potentially serious consequences for an industry often opposed to environmental regulation.
BP, a major player on Alaska’s North Slope for decades, is selling all of its assets in the state, the company announced Tuesday.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday he will reject over $40 million of aid to fight Amazon wildfires unless French President Emmanuel Macron apologizes for comments he deemed offensive.
Every year, farmers in the Amazon set fires to clear agricultural land during the dry season starting in August, but this year may be a record-setter, not for the number of fires, but for the global outrage.
President Trump’s plans for the biggest deregulatory effort of his presidency, a rescinding of California-led tailpipe emission standards established late in the Obama administration, have run into mounting opposition from automakers that have joined forces with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat.
There were a couple of problems with the photo of this year’s Amazon rainforest fires tweeted by French President Emmanuel Macron: It wasn’t taken this year, and it may not be the Amazon rainforest.
President Trump said Monday that he won’t allow the U.S. to squander its wealth of fossil fuels on the “dreams” of people who are concerned about climate change.
President Trump has reportedly suggested to advisers that the United States should fend off hurricanes with nuclear bombs.
Amid global concern about raging fires in the Amazon, Brazil’s government complained Thursday that it is being targeted in smear campaign by critics who contend President Jair Bolsonaro is not doing enough to curb widespread deforestation.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who has ended his climate change-focused 2020 presidential bid, is set to announce Thursday that he’ll seek a third term as governor.
