International: United States
California, Connecticut preparing 'attack' against Trump's repeal of basis of US climate regulation
Fri 20 Feb 2026
California and Connecticut are working together on a multi-state "plan of attack" against President Donald Trump's repeal of the foundation of federal climate regulation of vehicles, the states' attorneys general told Reuters on Tuesday.
US pressures global energy body to drop net zero modelling
Thu 19 Feb 2026
The United States is calling on the world's most influential energy organisation to abandon net zero emissions scenario modelling that has informed much of the global green transition, arguing the targets are unrealistic.
Newsom to world leaders: 'Donald Trump is temporary'
Wed 18 Feb 2026
California Governor Gavin Newsom has long positioned the state as a durable counterweight to Trumpism, particularly on climate policies that California has expanded as the White House retreats.
EPA boss offers forceful defence for scrapping landmark Obama climate policy
Tue 17 Feb 2026
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is just following the law, he said Saturday in Munich, where he defended the Trump administration’s move this week to disengage the United States from decades of efforts to regulate climate change.
Trump has overseen larger coal decline than any other US president
Tue 17 Feb 2026
His administration’s latest efforts to roll back US climate policy have been presented by interior secretary Doug Burgum as an opportunity to revive “clean, beautiful, American coal”.
Trump is wiping out all climate regulation. Big Oil may regret it.
12 Feb 2026
For decades, oil majors fought climate regulation. Now, they’re afraid Trump’s extreme rollbacks could leave them on the hook to pay for what they’ve done.
Trump set to gut US climate change policy and environmental regulations, White House official says
11 Feb 2026
The Trump administration is expected this week to revoke a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, according to a White House official.
US-driven gas turbine crunch may speed global clean power uptake
9 Feb 2026
A rush by U.S. utilities and tech giants to snap up as many gas turbines as possible to boost local power output is causing a global shortage of gas-power equipment and may spur other power systems to fast-track cleaner alternatives.
U.S. could issue general license for oil companies to produce in Venezuela this week
5 Feb 2026
The Trump administration could issue a general license as soon as this week for companies to produce oil and gas in Venezuela, a person familiar with the plan told CNBC on Tuesday.
Actually, I do know how to do this
5 Feb 2026
COMMENT: In retrospect, paying attention to polluters may be one of the best ways to understand what’s currently happening in the United States.
US court blocks Trump halt on last of five suspended offshore wind projects
4 Feb 2026
All five offshore wind projects halted by the Trump administration in December can resume construction following a federal judge's ruling on Monday that cleared Denmark's Orsted to proceed with its Sunrise Wind project off the coast of New York.
US court says Energy Dept climate group violated law
3 Feb 2026
The Trump administration violated federal law when it secretly formed a climate science advisory group to work on a contentious global warming report, a court has ruled.
US to unveil $12B mineral stockpile in race against China
3 Feb 2026
The White House is planning to unveil “Project Vault” as officials from at least 40 countries head to Washington to discuss a minerals market to counter Beijing.
Trump’s pick to lead the federal reserve could steer bank away from climate change
3 Feb 2026
Kevin Warsh has criticised central banks’ forays into climate change. Some activists and Democrats say the Fed hasn’t done enough.
Data centres are driving a US gas boom
2 Feb 2026
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
Winter drilling program in Alaska petroleum preserve can proceed, judge rules
30 Jan 2026
ConocoPhillips Alaska can proceed with an oil and gas exploration program in a portion of a vast petroleum reserve in the state after a federal judge denied a request from project opponents to halt it.
US oil lobby targets landmark EU climate law
30 Jan 2026
The declaration coincides with U.S. fossil fuel companies’ use of Trump’s trade tensions and international discord to undermine EU climate laws.
Deadly US winter storm leaves flights delayed and thousands without power
29 Jan 2026
The storm, which caused chaos from Texas to the tip of Maine over the weekend, snarled roadways, knocked out power, and buried major cities under a thick blanket of snow.
‘Abdication’: Trump takes US out of Paris climate agreement for a second time
28 Jan 2026
Experts are watching for how other countries will react as the ‘real economy’ shifts to cheaper, cleaner energy.
Whistleblowers warn that ad industry is fuelling online hatred and climate crisis
28 Jan 2026
Anonymous group of senior executives say major ad agencies are “enabling harm rather than doing good.”
As cold hits, Trump asks, where’s global warming? Scientists say it’s still here
27 Jan 2026
As much of the United States faces numbing cold, treacherous ice and heavy snow from an enormous winter storm, President Donald Trump used social media to dispute that the world is warming.
US is canceling almost $30 billion in Biden-era energy loans
27 Jan 2026
The Trump administration said it’s canceling almost $30 billion of financing from the Energy Department’s green bank after reviewing transactions approved under former President Biden.
US Democrats are shying away from climate messaging. One of their own is fighting back.
26 Jan 2026
There’s a schism within the Democratic Party about whether talking about climate change is the right message to win back control of Washington.
EPA erases references to human-caused climate change from websites
19 Dec 2025
EPA has scrubbed references to people’s contribution to rising temperatures from some of its climate change webpages.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center
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
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
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
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.”
The case for Australian carbon tariffs
Thu 19 Feb 2026
OPINION: It may seem a niche issue but sorting the issue of carbon leakage from emissions-intensive facilities is needed to put industrial climate policy on a firm footing.
As Trump retreats from climate goals, China is becoming a green superpower
Thu 19 Feb 2026
How the world's biggest carbon emitter is now at the helm of a renewables revolution.
EU countries back stronger price curbs on new carbon market
Fri 20 Feb 2026
European Union countries on Wednesday backed plans to strengthen price curbs in the bloc's upcoming carbon market, EU diplomats told Reuters, in response to concerns from some governments that the policy could raise fuel bills.
Britain strengthens ties with California as new clean energy and climate agreement signed
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Britain has forged a deeper alliance with California on clean energy and climate action, as Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new agreement aimed at boosting transatlantic investment and environmental protection.
Mark Carney just picked his lane on climate change
Tue 17 Feb 2026
COMMENT: Mark Carney's time as prime minister has been defined in part by his decision to roll back Trudeau-era climate policies.
Modi's rooftop solar push slowed by reluctant lenders, states
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's push to accelerate the rollout of rooftop solar power is falling short of targets despite heavy subsidies due to loan delays and limited support from state utilities, vendors and analysts say.
Pacific fisheries summit gives a boost to albacore and seabirds
19 Dec 2025
Much of the world’s albacore tuna catch, which usually ends up in a can, comes from the southwestern Pacific Ocean, where fishery managers just passed a new set of conservation rules.
Warming climate threatens Greenland's ancestral way of life
12 Feb 2026
The Arctic region is on the frontline of global warming, heating up four times faster than the rest of the planet since 1979, according to a 2022 study in scientific journal Nature, causing the sea ice to retreat.
Africa leads growth in solar energy as demand spreads beyond traditional markets, report says
Mon 16 Feb 2026
A report shows that Africa has emerged as the world's fastest-growing solar market even as global growth slowed last year, driven by a 60% surge in imports of solar panels from China.
Argentina fires ravage pristine Patagonia forests, fueling criticism of Milei’s austerity
4 Feb 2026
The wildfires, among the worst to hit the drought-stricken Patagonia region in decades, have devastated more than 45,000 hectares (174 square miles) of Argentina’s forests in the last month and a half, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents and tourists.
Why Trump might be onboard with a UN carbon-offset programme for airlines
12 Feb 2026
The president’s team has backed the rollout of an initiative that calls for the use of sustainable aviation fuel and carbon credits, even as Trump has pulled back from other international emissions-reduction efforts.
