International: United States

Appeals Court affirms dismissal of youth climate case against Trump

Fri 5 Jun 2026

The lead attorney for the 22 plaintiffs said the court has “slammed the courthouse doors on children fighting for their lives.”

AI boom means US is now ‘investing more’ in fossil-fuel power than China

Tue 2 Jun 2026

The “data-centre boom” is driving a surge in gas investment in the US, pushing its fossil-power spending ahead of China, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

US to ‘kill’ climate disclosure rule

Tue 2 Jun 2026

In the latest action to undo Biden-era regulations on climate change, the Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed repealing a rule that requires some public companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions and the risks they face from global warming.

Revealed: huge climate cost of harmful emissions from US immigration flights

28 May 2026

US immigration enforcement flights are producing hundreds of thousands of metric tonnes of climate-damaging carbon emissions as officials shuttle unprecedented numbers of people to detention centers far from home and deport them to countries across the world.

Climate change alarms are flashing. Washington isn’t paying attention

27 May 2026

The Trump administration has swept away climate change policies, Democrats are focused on energy costs, and environmental groups have gone quiet.

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Trump officials, billionaires and the quiet reshaping of America’s public lands

26 May 2026

A controversial land swap orchestrated by the megarich could be “a harbinger of what’s to come” for public lands under Trump.

Sorry, climate change is still dangerous, no matter what nonsense Trump emits

25 May 2026

As the climate-change landscape evolves, new forms of scientific disinformation emerge.

Trump distorts recent revisions of scientific projections of global warming

21 May 2026

President Donald Trump recently blasted the accuracy of global warming projections in a Truth Social post that itself painted a distorted view of the science, projections and how the international community discusses climate policy.

How the environmental movement lost its power – and how to get back

19 May 2026

COMMENT: How did the movement lose its vibrancy? More screen time, less wild habitat available to visit, and a shift to urban living have made Americans less viscerally connected to the splendor of planet Earth.

Trump has hindered offshore wind while China and other countries invest heavily

18 May 2026

President Donald Trump is stopping offshore wind projects in the United States, just as the industry was poised to grow significantly.

Some inconvenient truths in bringing climate science to the judiciary

14 May 2026

OPINION: Climate science had been knocking on the courthouse doors for quite some time when the Supreme Court of the United States finally invited it into the realm of legal action in 2007.

US EPA moves to speed clean air permits for power plants, industry

13 May 2026

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it would speed up the process for large polluters to obtain clean air permits, the latest move by the Trump ‌administration to ease regulatory burdens on American power plants and industry.

Trump’s Iran war may stymie climate gains with boost to big oil, experts say

11 May 2026

Windfall profits could lock in Trump-era political wins for the industry and slow clean-energy transition.

‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds

8 May 2026

The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded.

California’s battery array is as powerful as 12 nuclear power plants. Here’s what’s on the horizon

8 May 2026

An expert in the state’s energy grid explains how the state is faring amid federal cuts.

Alaskan megatsunami triggered by climate change

7 May 2026

The wave at the Tracy Arm Fjord in the Tongass National Forest last year was triggered by a rock landslide which was driven by climate change.

Trump takes a ‘wrecking ball’ to independent scientific advisory board

30 Apr 2026

Without the impartial oversight of its board, the National Science Foundation is now “fully at the behest of the White House,” experts warn.

Trump administration to pay two more companies to walk away from US offshore wind leases

29 Apr 2026

Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind have agreed to end their offshore wind leases in exchange for reimbursements totaling nearly $900 million. Both companies have decided not to pursue any new offshore wind projects in the United States.

US official: No hope for global carbon tax

28 Apr 2026

A U.S. negotiator warned other countries in a closed-door meeting that efforts to rein in climate pollution from ships has "no prospect" of success.

Prospects for global green shipping deal boosted by US tariff ruling, analysts say

24 Apr 2026

While divisions remain over the international shipping’s Net Zero Framework, the US’s main threat may now have been partly neutered

Republican lawmakers attempt to shield big oil from climate lawsuits in ‘alarming’ bills

24 Apr 2026

Climate experts and advocates warn House and Senate bills will protect polluters at the cost of the climate.

Environmental groups sue Trump administration over approval of new ultra deep-water drilling project

23 Apr 2026

Environmental groups sued the Trump administration on Monday over its approval last month of oil company BP’s ultra deep-water drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico.

Judge dismisses Trump administration’s bid to block Hawaii climate lawsuit

20 Apr 2026

It was the second defeat for the Trump administration’s unusual litigation to stop states from acting on climate change.

‘A disturbing lack of integrity’: Columbia students file complaint against energy thinktank taking big oil money

20 Apr 2026

thinktank at Columbia University is engaging in deceptive trade practices by hiding the extent of its financial ties to the fossil fuel industry, according to a first-of-its-kind administrative complaint filed by student activists and shared with the Guardian.

As energy costs rise, some states back off ambitious climate goals

17 Apr 2026

Seven years ago, New York lawmakers set ambitious goals for slashing greenhouse gas emissions with clarion calls about saving the future. Now, with slow progress made and political realities shifting, Gov. Kathy Hochul is seeking a delay, saying she wants to save consumers money.

Gun manufacturers won the ultimate legal shield. Big Oil wants that, too

15 Apr 2026

Backed by the Trump administration, the industry is seeking to block all climate lawsuits that seek compensation from fossil fuel producers for damages.

Is the Keystone XL pipeline back?

14 Apr 2026

A company has proposed to build a crude oil pipeline crossing the Canadian border near where the long-contested project would have entered the United States.

US EPA head gives keynote address at climate sceptic conference

10 Apr 2026

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin gave the keynote speech Wednesday at a conference hosted by a climate denial group.

Trump’s budget would cut billions from climate programs while boosting military spending

8 Apr 2026

Trump’s 2027 budget proposal targets what the administration calls the “Green New Scam” through budget cuts to energy and environment programs.

Climate experts say spring is coming earlier. How will that affect agriculture and ecosystems?

7 Apr 2026

An earlier spring affects when migratory birds arrive, leaves emerge, and fruit ripens — among plants and animals that determine ecosystem health.

Transparency International US: Conflicts of interest in carbon markets are 'pervasive'

7 Apr 2026

In the absence of strong, independent decision-making and meaningful public oversight, carbon markets have developed in ways that consistently fail to deliver tangible, additional, or permanent emissions reductions.

Double danger? Climate change, El Niño push Earth 'beyond its limits'

1 Apr 2026

A freakish March heat wave has already pushed temperatures to summertime levels throughout much of the western and central United States, but a new report comes with a dire warning: This is just the beginning.

Balcony solar is spreading across the US

31 Mar 2026

The balcony solar movement is running hot in Germany, and now it is spreading into the US like gangbusters, just in time for US President Donald Trump’s war in Iran to send the cost of coal through the roof alongside oil and natural gas.

US cannot meet Iran war-induced LNG shortfall: industry leaders

27 Mar 2026

Business leaders are warning that the United States lacks the infrastructure to alleviate a global LNG shortage caused by the US-Israel war on Iran, which has kept a fifth of the world's energy supplies from leaving the Gulf.

US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds

27 Mar 2026

The US has caused an eye-watering $10tn in global damages to the world over the past three decades through its vast planet-heating emissions, with a quarter of this economic pain inflicted upon itself, new research has found.

California sues Trump energy department over revival of controversial oil pipeline

25 Mar 2026

California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, said he has sued the US energy department to stop it from using a cold-war-era law to restart the long-disputed Sable Offshore pipeline system linking the Santa Ynez offshore platform to California refineries.

US to pay almost $1bn to French energy company to kill wind project plan

24 Mar 2026

As a fuel crisis triggered by the war in Iran drives up global fossil fuel prices, the Trump administration has announced it will pay French energy major TotalEnergies $1bn to kill plans to construct wind farms off the US east coast.

The US broke the all-time heat record for March. Yes, it’s climate change

24 Mar 2026

An unprecedented heat wave in the West broke the record for the hottest March temperature anywhere in the United States: 108 degrees. It’s an alarming signal of how hot the planet is getting and how fast it’s happening.

Thousands remain under evacuation orders in Hawaii flooding

23 Mar 2026

Flooding across Oahu is now the worst Hawaii has seen in over 20 years. More than 230 people have been rescued so far. Some 5,500 people remain under evacuation orders in part because of rising water levels at the Wahiawa dam.

US National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info

18 Mar 2026

State attorneys general won't get climate chapter removed from a legal manual.

Spring, climate change, jet stream serves up buffet of wild weather hitting US

18 Mar 2026

Nearly every type of wild weather hit some part of the United States on Monday as the normal changing seasons clash of cold and warm air collided with a jet stream gone crazy and a possible dash of climate change, meteorologists and scientist said.

New York cooks up a plan to boost energy efficiency in public housing

18 Mar 2026

The state plans to pay for induction stoves to be installed in 10,000 apartments across New York City. A Bronx walk-up provides an early look at what’s to come.

Trump administration sues California over the state’s nation-leading vehicle-emission rules

17 Mar 2026

The Trump administration ramped up a battle with California over the state’s nation-leading vehicle-emission standards Thursday, suing air regulators over rules aimed at curbing pollution from cars.

‘We make a lot of money’: Trump downplays rise in gas prices during Iran war

16 Mar 2026

Donald Trump on Thursday shrugged off the economic toll the war in Iran is taking on gas prices across the United States, writing on social media that “when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money”.

As Russia bombs Ukraine’s power plants, Gulf Coast LNG companies win big

11 Mar 2026

Record LNG exports to Europe are pushing up prices for US consumers even more than forecast.

The war in Iran shows us another cost of our fossil-fuel economy

6 Mar 2026

When people debate the cost of fossil fuels versus renewables, the conversation almost always centers on the price at the pump or the cost per kilowatt-hour on your electricity bill. That’s understandable — those are the costs you can see. But they’re not the whole story.

Climate deniers expected more resistance to Trump’s fossil fuel blitz

6 Mar 2026

As Donald Trump assaults the legal foundation of America’s ability to regulate global warming emissions, climate deniers have been privately celebrating what they claim is the “silent” acquiescence of billionaires, Democrats, climate activists and even reporters to the president’s aggressive pro-fossil fuel agenda.