Carbon News
  • Members
    • Login
      Forgot Password?
    • Not a member? Subscribe
    • Forgot Password
      Back to Login
    • Not a member? Subscribe
  • Home
  • New Zealand
    • Politics
    • Energy
    • Agriculture
    • Carbon emissions
    • Transport
    • Forestry
    • Business
  • Markets
    • Analysis
    • NZ carbon price
  • International
    • Australia
    • United States
    • China
    • Europe
    • United Kingdom
    • Canada
    • Asia
    • Pacific
    • Antarctic/Arctic
    • Africa
    • South America
    • United Nations
  • News Direct
    • Media releases
    • Climate calendar
  • About Carbon News
    • Contact us
    • Advertising
    • Subscribe
    • Service
    • Policies

International: United States

More in International: United States
Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ... 23 3 of 23 Next

Chevron ordered to pay $744.6 million for destroying Louisiana’s coastal wetlands

10 Apr 2025

Oil giant Chevron has been ordered by a Louisiana civil court jury to pay $744.6 million to a parish government to help restore coastal wetlands destroyed by the company over a period of decades.

Trump’s tariff tantrum won’t stop the global energy transition

9 Apr 2025

Trump has such a passion for tariffs he even imposed them on Antarctic islands – home only to penguins, who presumably pose a grave threat to American industry.

Do climate goals matter in a bad economy?

8 Apr 2025

It would be understandable for a climate concerned person to fear that economic headwinds will be yet another force that slows climate action.

Over time, the community has come to embrace the ecological and spiritual significance of the preserve.

Rewilding death in the Appalachian mountains

4 Apr 2025

A growing conservation burial movement is challenging the funeral industry’s environmental footprint while healing the land.

More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science

2 Apr 2025

Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warned Americans of ‘real danger in this moment’.

Disaster as Trump’s energy policy totally disregards climate change

2 Apr 2025

COMMENT: Energy — where we get it, how we use it and what it costs — is fundamental to the quality and stability of modern life. It influences virtually everything we do and affects everything we hope to have in the future.

Trump administration cancels clean energy grants as it prioritises fossil fuels

1 Apr 2025

President Donald Trump’s administration is terminating grants for two clean energy projects and roughly 300 others funded by the Department of Energy are in jeopardy as the president prioritises fossil fuels.

Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed

31 Mar 2025

Today, the ocean that Kahoʻohalahala and so many other Indigenous peoples crossed, cared for, and survived on is on track to be mined for polymetallic nodules.

Climate investors see opportunity in Trump’s anti-climate push

28 Mar 2025

US President Donald Trump’s pro-fossil fuel policies spell opportunity for some climate investors.

Farmers are reeling from Trump’s attacks on agricultural research

27 Mar 2025

A "rollercoaster" of funding cuts and layoffs have gutted critical agricultural research projects across the nation.

NOAA cuts more key weather data gathering after layoffs

26 Mar 2025

The National Weather Service is reducing weather balloon launches at six more locations in the U.S. and temporarily suspending them at two more places due to staffing shortages, the agency announced Thursday afternoon.

US Supreme Court will not hear novel youth-led climate change case

26 Mar 2025

The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in the long-running case, known as Juliana, which helped spawn legal strategies widely adapted to other lawsuits over climate.

Climate groups could beat Trump in fight for $20B. It may be too late.

25 Mar 2025

The Trump administration is hitting legal roadblocks in its attempt to revoke $20 billion in climate grants, but its efforts are already achieving one of the president’s key aims: throttling a crucial part of Joe Biden’s clean energy agenda.

‘One-third’ of 2012 soya crop failure in the Americas was due to climate change

25 Mar 2025

Climate change was responsible for just over one-third of the simultaneous soya bean crop failures across Argentina, Brazil and the US in 2012, according to a new attribution study.

Trump is tackling every 'emergency' except the important one: climate change

21 Mar 2025

To hear President Trump describe it, the U.S. is beset by emergencies. We allegedly have an energy emergency, a government waste emergency and a foreign trade emergency.

Trump vows to immediately ramp up US production of 'beautiful, clean coal'

20 Mar 2025

President Trump this week continued to make his environmental priorities clear by vowing to open up hundreds of coal power plants in the United States in an effort to advance competition against China.

Some US scientists stick with the IPCC despite the administration pulling out of international climate work

19 Mar 2025

A handful of U.S. researchers joined a critical meeting on climate and cities this week in Japan. "For me, this process is so important that if I had to self-fund, I would," said one.

The unexpected knock-on effect of Trump's minerals 'deal of the century'

18 Mar 2025

Donald Trump's return to the White House is a "major blow to global climate action". So said Christiana Figueres, the former UN climate chief, after he was elected in November.

The true cost of Trump's cuts to NOAA and NASA

17 Mar 2025

EDITORIAL: Not only will the cuts hinder the agencies' abilities to track and warn about upcoming severe weather events, they also hamper basic research into climate change, carried out to help humanity better prepare for the sweeping environmental upheaval already evident in a steadily warming world.

Trump officials decimate climate protections and consider axeing key greenhouse gas finding

14 Mar 2025

EPA takes aim at almost every major pollution rule in what environmentalists call act of 'malice toward the planet.'

Tech giants are complicit in an anti-climate agenda. Employees should be speaking up

14 Mar 2025

OPINION: As Big Tech bows to Donald Trump, employees should use their influence to engage coworkers and press their leaders for action.

Despite everything, US EV sales are up 28% this year

14 Mar 2025

In the US, customers are buying while there are still incentives and no extra tariffs.

US government terminates $20B in climate grants

13 Mar 2025

The move comes just one day before a federal judge will hold a hearing in a lawsuit brought by one of the grant recipients seeking access to the funds the Trump administration had frozen while it probed the program.

US Supreme Court rejects Republican-led effort to halt climate lawsuits against oil firms

12 Mar 2025

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a lawsuit from Republican attorneys general in 19 states aimed at blocking climate change suits against the oil and gas industry from Democratic-led states.

US withdraws from UN climate damage fund

11 Mar 2025

The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from the United Nations climate damage fund that was established in 2023 to help developing countries most vulnerable to climate change when natural disasters strike.

US withdrawing from plan to help major polluters move from coal

7 Mar 2025

The United States is withdrawing from the Just Energy Transition Partnership, a collaboration between richer nations to help developing countries transition from coal to cleaner energy.

The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn't bother Trump - and I know why

7 Mar 2025

By George Monbiot | OPINION: He is surrounded by people who have grandiose plans and dreams beyond our planet. Vengeful nihilism is a big part of the Maga project.

Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber

6 Mar 2025

President's move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species.

US: EPA calls for watchdog to probe $20 billion climate fund

5 Mar 2025

The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund is at the center of a fight between the Trump administration and environmental groups seeking access to the funds that Congress approved under its massive climate legislation.

Trump's firings at US weather agency will put lives at risk, scientists say

4 Mar 2025

"There will be people who die in extreme weather events and related disasters who would not have otherwise."

Trump's war on climate science is pushing us into a dystopian future

3 Mar 2025

US President Donald Trump's latest war on the climate includes withdrawing support for any research that mentions the word.

US officials absent from global climate forums during Trump 2.0

28 Feb 2025

US officials have missed recent international climate forums sparking concerns about a potentially significant shift from Donald Trump's first term.

America's "first car-free neighborhood" is going pretty good, actually?

28 Feb 2025

Since breaking ground in 2021, Culdesac Tempe has had its share of detractors and skeptics. But none of them live there.

RFK Jr., onetime environmentalist, kills climate change programs

27 Feb 2025

In 1999, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then an environmental lawyer, was named by Time magazine as a "hero of the planet" for his pioneering work to clean up America's waterways. On February 14 of this year, his second day as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, he ended HHS funding for climate change and health programs at the National Institutes of Health, a move that will likely terminate this work.

Greenpeace risks bankruptcy at US pipeline trial

26 Feb 2025

Greenpeace has said that a lawsuit brought by an energy company over the Dakota Access Pipeline could wipe it out.

How Trump gutted climate policy in 30 days

25 Feb 2025

President Donald Trump's promised assault on federal climate policies is sweeping across Washington, state capitals and private industry with a speed that's surprising even some of his supporters and critics -- and could leave an impact on the planet's future well after his presidency.

US to pull delegation from UN climate science meeting

24 Feb 2025

State Department officials won't participate in next week's meeting of the top UN climate science panel, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.

US: Senior Department of Justice prosecutor quit after being told to investigate Biden climate spending

20 Feb 2025

The top criminal prosecutor in the Washington, DC, US Attorney's Office, Denise Cheung, resigned Tuesday after declining a request from her Trump-appointed superiors to open a grand jury investigation she viewed as premature.

There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here's how to survive if that happens

20 Feb 2025

OPINION: It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers - the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves.

US Energy Secretary backs coal and attacks 'sinister' climate targets

19 Feb 2025

The Trump appointee and fossil fuel executive called the transition to renewable energy "lunacy" at an event packed with climate science deniers.

US: Former EPA officials blast effort to rescind climate funds

18 Feb 2025

Former EPA officials are condemning the agency's new leadership for trying to claw back billions from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, calling waste claims from current administrator, Lee Zeldin, a 'smokescreen' to justify dismantling climate programs the Trump administration opposes.

'Life-threatening cold' expected as polar vortex stretches across US after deadly weekend flooding

18 Feb 2025

Harsh weather moved west on Monday as a polar vortex was expected to grip the Rockies and the northern Plains after winter storms pummeled the eastern U.S. over the weekend, killing at least 10 people, including nine victims in Kentucky who died during flooding from heavy rains.

As Trump administration purges climate data and web pages, research groups scramble to save information

13 Feb 2025

The Trump administration has directed federal agency staff to remove climate references and scientific data from many web pages. Researchers are rushing to archive it.

Falling costs drive US toward green energy - even as political tides shift

12 Feb 2025

The U.S. is barreling toward an energy transition as renewables - especially solar - become ever-cheaper sources of energy.

Trump administration moves to suspend national EV charger rollout

11 Feb 2025

The bid to freeze the money upends how the federal government delivers funding to states and may violate court orders issued this week.

"No future": Climate projects face existential threat after Trump's aid shutdown

7 Feb 2025

The Trump administration's attack on USAID puts at risk close to $500 million a year in grant-based climate funding for developing countries.

Trump's reversal of climate policies risks undermining U.S. manufacturing -- and could cost people jobs

7 Feb 2025

United States President Donald Trump's early executive actions have set American manufacturing on a collision course with his administration's fossil-fuel-driven agenda. It's clear that climate change policies run counter to his vision of American primacy.

US: More than 1000 Environmental Protection workers could be dismissed immediately

5 Feb 2025

The Trump administration has notified more than 1,000 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency that they could be dismissed immediately.

Living near active oil and gas wells may have increased risk of dying from COVID-19

5 Feb 2025

Californians who lived near the highest-producing wells were more likely to die of COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic, recent research shows.

USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites

4 Feb 2025

Agriculture Department employees have been ordered to delete landing pages discussing climate change across agency websites and document climate change references for further review, according to an internal email obtained by POLITICO.

Australia
More Australia >

Australia: Cost of years of inaction on climate change is now revealed

Wed 17 Sep 2025

OPINION: In recent weeks, alarming glimpses into the contents of the federal government’s National Climate Risk Assessment have leaked out.

China
More China >

China aims to nearly double battery storage by 2027 in $35 billion plan

Tue 16 Sep 2025

China is looking to almost double its so-called new energy storage capacity to 180 gigawatts (GW) by 2027, according to an industry plan announced by authorities on Friday.

Europe
More Europe >

Europe’s summer of extreme weather caused €43bn of short-term losses, analysis finds

Wed 17 Sep 2025

Greatest damage from heat, drought and flooding done in Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Bulgaria.

United Kingdom
More United Kingdom >

UK foreign aid for nature hits £800m record due to cash for carbon credits

Tue 16 Sep 2025

The UK’s climate-aid spending on “nature protection and restoration” reached record levels of nearly £800m last year, according to government figures obtained by Carbon Brief.

Canada
More Canada >

Carney government noncommittal about Canada meeting 2030 climate goals

9 Sep 2025

Prime Minister Mark Carney would not say Monday whether Canada will meet its climate goals under the Paris agreement by 2030, as his government faces criticism over his emission-reduction plans.

Asia
More Asia >

Tax rebalancing in Indian energy sector: Renewables cheaper, coal costlier

Fri 12 Sep 2025

Industry experts and developers have hail GST cuts on clean energy equipment, saying it will be a major enabler for India’s ambitious climate goals.

Pacific
More Pacific >

China, climate crisis and COP31: Five takeaways from the Pacific Islands Forum

Tue 16 Sep 2025

A key climate crisis funding treaty struck as Pacific leaders backed Australia’s bid for Cop31 despite some criticism of its environmental credentials.

Antarctic/Arctic
More Antarctic/Arctic >

Iconic Antarctic species at risk amid 'regime shift', with 'rapid and self-perpetuating changes'

22 Aug 2025

Scientists say there is emerging evidence of abrupt and potentially unstoppable changes in the Antarctic environment.

Africa
More Africa >

South African environmental groups push to block Shell’s new wells – how world court opinion might help

Wed 17 Sep 2025

The International Court of Justice’s landmark advisory opinion on climate change has come in handy for South African communities that are trying to stop global oil company Shell from drilling for oil and gas off the coast.

South America
More South America >

Brazil implores businesses to attend COP30 climate summit, despite 'second thoughts' amid Trump backlash

5 Sep 2025

November's COP30 summit comes at a precarious time for climate action, as companies back away from environmental initiatives, and attacks on green energy by President Trump.

United Nations
More United Nations >

UN pushes countries for new climate targets this month

9 Sep 2025

The United Nations urged countries on Wednesday to set more ambitious climate plans during this month, seeking to pressure major economies including the EU and China ahead of this year's U.N. climate summit.

More in International: United States
Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ... 23 3 of 23 Next
Carbon News

Subscriptions, Advertising & General

[email protected]

Editorial

[email protected]

We welcome comments, news tips and suggestions - please also use this address to submit all media releases for News Direct).

Useful Links
Home About Carbon News Contact us Advertising Subscribe Service Policies
New Zealand
Politics Energy Agriculture Carbon emissions Transport Forestry Business
International
Australia United States China Europe United Kingdom Canada Asia Pacific Antarctic/Arctic Africa South America United Nations
Home
Markets
Analysis NZ carbon price
News Direct
Media releases Climate calendar

© 2008-2025 Carbon News. All Rights Reserved. • Your IP Address: 216.73.216.122 • User account: Sign In

Please wait...
Audit log: