International: United States
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center
Thu 18 Dec 2025
The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
US demands EU exempt its gas from methane emissions law, document shows
Wed 17 Dec 2025
The US has demanded that the European Union exempt its oil and gas from obligations under the bloc's methane emissions law on fuel imports until 2035, a US government document seen by Reuters showed.
Ford takes US$19 billion hit after EV plan reversal
Wed 17 Dec 2025
Ford Motor Company is pivoting away from its once-ambitious electric vehicle plans amid financial losses and waning consumer demand for the vehicles in lieu of investment in more efficient gasoline-engines and hybrid EVs, the company said Monday.
How climate change broke the Pacific Northwest’s plumbing
Tue 16 Dec 2025
Flooding in the Pacific Northwest has recently turned deadly serious, as days of intense rain from a powerful atmospheric river have swollen rivers and caused widespread flooding.
Environmental groups demand a nationwide freeze on data center construction
10 Dec 2025
In a letter to Congress, the groups said data center development raises concerns about rising energy costs, water use and climate impacts. Many communities are fighting back.
Depleted Tennessee farmland is now teeming with wildlife
9 Dec 2025
Middle Fork Bottoms State Park demonstrates the benefits that flow when ecology is left to do what it does naturally.
Fossil-fuel billionaires bought up millions of shares after meeting with top Trump officials
8 Dec 2025
Co-founders’ acquisition of Venture Global shares before key permit granted draws scrutiny as pair deny wrongdoing
Rare win for renewable energy: Trump administration funds geothermal network expansion
5 Dec 2025
A first-in-the-nation heating and cooling network in Massachusetts is set to double in size.
Amy Westervelt: It’s time we stopped treating corporations as people
4 Dec 2025
COMMENT: Treating corporations as people and granting them First Amendment rights has warped US politics and harmed the climate. We need to overturn Citizens United.
Climate change is already costing US households up to $900 per year
4 Dec 2025
A new working paper from a trio of eminent economists tallies the effects of warming — particularly extreme weather — on Americans’ budgets.
Trump seeks to ease US regulations for coal-fired power plants
27 Nov 2025
President Donald Trump's administration has asked a federal court to strike down 2024 soot limits for power plants and factories.
Amid the ashes
26 Nov 2025
This year the LA wildfire came for my hometown. What happened next is a warning for us all.
G20 summit declaration stresses seriousness of climate change in snub to Trump
25 Nov 2025
The Leaders' Declaration from a Group of 20 summit in South Africa on Saturday stressed the seriousness of climate change, in a snub to U.S. President Donald Trump, who boycotted the gathering and doubts the scientific consensus that global warming is caused by human activities.
Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds
21 Nov 2025
Fallout from increased emissions linked to president’s ‘America First’ policies expected to most affect those in poor, hot countries.
A landmark court ruling looms over US absence at COP30
20 Nov 2025
The historic climate change advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice suggests the United States is violating international law on climate, legal experts say.
Trump is said to propose opening California coast to oil drilling
14 Nov 2025
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a chief critic of the president and an opponent of oil exploration in the Pacific, called the proposal “dead on arrival.”
Clean energy could become a huge political winner
12 Nov 2025
Rising power bills quietly shaped this year’s races – and gave Democrats a new attack line on climate.
New York climate advocates celebrate Mamdani’s victory, prepare to hold him accountable
7 Nov 2025
For the first time in years, New York’s environmental justice advocates say they’ll be working with the city’s government – rather than against it.
How the US could shape the COP30 climate summit without even being there
6 Nov 2025
The Trump administration has recently taken aggressive stances to try to influence other countries’ climate policies, mainly by threatening hostile trade measures.
‘How did we get here?’: Documentary explores how Republicans changed course on the climate
5 Nov 2025
In The White House Effect, now available on Netflix, archival footage is used to show how the US right moved from believing to disputing the climate crisis.
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
4 Nov 2025
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process.
No high-level US representatives will go to UN climate talks, Trump officials say
3 Nov 2025
Decision to stay away from Cop30 meeting in Brazil underscores administration’s hostility to climate action.
Judge says Greenpeace must pay $345 million in pipeline lawsuit, cutting jury amount nearly in half
31 Oct 2025
A North Dakota judge has ordered Greenpeace to pay damages of $345 million, reducing an earlier jury award after it found the environmental group and related entities liable for defamation and other claims in connection with protests of an oil pipeline nearly a decade ago.
America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam
30 Oct 2025
Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%.
ExxonMobil sues California over climate disclosure laws
28 Oct 2025
Exxon Mobil Corporation is suing the state of California over a pair of 2023 climate disclosure laws that the company says infringe upon its free speech rights, namely by forcing it to embrace the message that large companies are uniquely to blame for climate change.
Why Democrats aren’t talking about climate change much anymore
24 Oct 2025
Nearly a year after the 2024 election, Democrats are still trying to figure out what went wrong. In the midst of this soul-searching, a new piece of advice has appeared: “Don’t say climate change.”
How veterans of Al Gore's firm plan to align on climate and still profit
23 Oct 2025
A new investment firm is betting on a big idea: There's no collision between prioritising both climate and returns despite the recent vibe shift – if you do the homework.
Trump is pushing allies to buy US gas. It’s bad economics – and a catastrophe for the climate
22 Oct 2025
The price of partnership with the United States has changed. Washington is now using assurances of defence and trade access to pressure allies in Europe and Asia to buy more of its fossil fuels under decades-long contracts.
On Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, residents fume as insurers hike rates and invest in fossil fuel projects
22 Oct 2025
Locals face a perfect storm — they can’t afford insurance and climate change threatens their livelihood.
States sue to stop Trump cancellation of $7 billion solar grant program
21 Oct 2025
Nearly two dozen states are suing the Trump administration over its cancellation of a $7 billion grant program aimed at expanding solar energy in low-income communities, according to court papers.
'We’re in God’s hands now': A dispatch from Western Alaska
20 Oct 2025
An immense disaster has wrought deep trauma on Western Alaska’s Indigenous residents and is raising existential questions about the future of their low-lying communities amid a changing climate and a tightening state budget.
Climate scientists and republican lawyers are taking aim at Big Tech’s emissions
17 Oct 2025
Technology companies have long been one of the biggest investors in clean energy, but new accounting rules could upend that.
Judge dismisses suit by young climate activists against Trump’s pro-fossil fuel policies
17 Oct 2025
Plaintiffs had ‘overwhelming evidence’ of climate crisis but a court injunction would be ‘unworkable’, ruling says.
Why Trump is not a death knell for global climate action
14 Oct 2025
In his rambling speech to the United Nations last month, United States President Donald Trump described climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”.
US threatens visa restrictions, sanctions against UN members that back IMO emissions plan
13 Oct 2025
The United States threatened to use visa restrictions and sanctions to retaliate against nations that vote in favour of a plan put forward by a United Nations agency to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from ocean shipping.
More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows
13 Oct 2025
Report looks at White House nominees and appointees and agencies dictating energy, environment and climate policy.
US Energy Department to slash nearly $24 billion in green project funding
9 Oct 2025
The US Energy Department is slashing nearly $24 billion of funding for climate projects, as the Trump administration moves to further unwind Biden-era climate policies during the government shutdown.
Plan to reflect sunlight to power solar panels at night upsets astronomers
9 Oct 2025
California startup Reflect Orbital plans to launch thousands of satellites with mirrors to redirect sunlight to solar farms at night.
Groups sue E.P.A. over cancelled $7 billion for solar energy
8 Oct 2025
The lawsuit accused the Environmental Protection Agency of illegally revoking the money without congressional approval.
In a new era of climate disaster, a tiny, resilient mountain village in New Mexico is teaching the world how to adapt
7 Oct 2025
Rather than risk the destruction of their village with every flood, Ruidoso’s leaders are plotting for survival.
End of EV tax subsidy sparks worries of collapse in US electric car sales
6 Oct 2025
Automotive executives are bracing for a freefall in U.S. electric-vehicle sales following the disappearance of a critical $7,500 tax break for buyers.
Countering the Trump administration’s attack on climate science
3 Oct 2025
The Trump Administration is attempting to remove the legal basis for U.S. action on greenhouse gas emissions by attacking the climate science that underpins it.
With federal support for wind and solar waning, states are trying to push policy through on their own
2 Oct 2025
A new report from the think tank Clean Tomorrow tracks how states are expanding – or restricting – where renewable energy projects can be built.
US Energy Department adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list
30 Sep 2025
The Energy Department has added “climate change,” “green” and “decarbonisation” to its growing “list of words to avoid” at its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
Regenerative agriculture is all over the agenda at Climate Week NYC. But what does it mean?
25 Sep 2025
Critics say the term is vague and are pushing for specific standards so consumers aren’t lured into false climate promises.
Gas makes a comeback at Climate Week
25 Sep 2025
At a number of events on Tuesday, senior officials made a case for gas as essential for energy security and a buttress to renewables
The stupidest speech in UN history
25 Sep 2025
COMMENT: Trump described climate change as not only a “hoax", but even more: “the largest con job ever perpetrated on the planet.”
California's Newsom signs sweeping energy affordability package
24 Sep 2025
The new laws address electricity markets, wildfire costs, oil drilling and the state's landmark emissions-trading program.
Trump administration moves to revoke permit for Massachusetts offshore wind project
24 Sep 2025
The Trump administration has moved to block a Massachusetts offshore wind farm, its latest effort to hobble an industry and technology that President Donald Trump has attacked as “ugly” and unreliable compared to fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.
New York readies for record Climate Week despite Trump chill factor
23 Sep 2025
The boost in engagement has come “precisely as an antidote to the current U.S. administration's attitude toward climate change".
Battery subsidy scheme set for 'urgent' overhaul as costs run out of control
Tue 16 Dec 2025
Australian Energy Minister Chris Bowen has announced big changes to the government's battery subsidy scheme amid claims most of its $2.3 billion budget has been spent in just six months.
Verra cancels four tree planting projects in China. And starts reviews of 45 more projects
Tue 16 Dec 2025
“Multiple carbon projects in China are facing serious allegations regarding the authenticity of government approval documents."
France updates its 2050 carbon neutrality roadmap
Wed 17 Dec 2025
To mark the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, France released a revamped climate plan promising to phase out oil and gas and sharply increase electricity use.
Net-zero scenario is ‘cheapest option’ for UK, says energy system operator
Mon 15 Dec 2025
A scenario that meets the “net-zero by 2050” goal would be the “cheapest” option for the UK, according to modelling by the National Energy System Operator (NESO).
Canada unveils new rules to lower oil and gas methane emissions
Thu 18 Dec 2025
Canada announced long-promised rules on Tuesday aimed at dramatically reducing methane emissions from the country's oil and gas sector.
‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia
12 Dec 2025
Cyclones like those in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Malaysia that killed 1,750 are ‘alarming new reality’.
Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain – and the consequences could be global
8 Dec 2025
Storms in the Southern Ocean influence weather patterns across Australia, New Zealand and the globe.
Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’
Thu 18 Dec 2025
Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say.
Are rainforests now a cause of, rather than the answer to, climate change?
Mon 15 Dec 2025
A new study finds that Africa’s forests, responsible for one-fifth of global carbon removal, are beginning to generate carbon as the result of human activity.
Thousands of climate disasters are not included in official reports from Amazonian countries
12 Dec 2025
More than 12,500 extreme weather events impacted the Amazon and its population in 10 years, but countries have not generated enough information about it, according to a new scientific study.
UN environment report 'hijacked' by US and others over fossil fuels, top scientist says
11 Dec 2025
A key UN report on the state of the global environment has been "hijacked" by the United States and other countries who were unwilling to go along with the scientific findings, the co-chair has told the BBC.
