Americans abandoning neighbourhoods due to rising flood risk
21 Dec 2023
Rising risk of floods is hollowing out counties across the United States — creating abandoned pockets in the hearts of cities.
First-of-a-kind US class-action lawsuit would force EPA to reinstate $3bn climate program
Today 10:00am
Coalition of non-profits, tribes and local governments sued EPA chief for halting climate justice grants.
Who are the climate deniers behind the rollback of foundational US climate policy?
Wed 6 Aug 2025
DeSmog has been tracking the efforts of fossil fuel trade associations, policymakers, and industry backed-groups out to demolish U.S. climate policy for years.
Can the US timber industry and forest carbon credit programs coexist?
Wed 6 Aug 2025
The climate crisis is forcing society to rethink existing technological and ecological systems. At the nexus of this challenge is how the U.S. values and manages forests.
Where does the climate movement go from here?
Wed 6 Aug 2025
With the Trump administration’s attack on America’s climate and environmental protections getting more extreme by the day, it’s easy to feel like there is no path forward for effective climate action in the United States.
BlackRock, other fund managers lose bid to dismiss Texas climate collusion lawsuit
Tue 5 Aug 2025
A U.S. judge on Friday largely rejected a request by top asset managers including BlackRock, to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Texas and 12 other Republican-led states that said the companies violated antitrust law through climate activism that reduced coal production and boosted energy prices.
Trump promised a drilling boom. The new rigs haven’t showed up yet
Mon 4 Aug 2025
With clean energy more cost-competitive than it once was, the White House’s oil-first strategy is faltering in a changing energy landscape.
The US is sitting out the most consequential climate summit in a decade. It may offer a victory to China
Fri 1 Aug 2025
The Trump administration fired the last of the US climate negotiators earlier this month, helping cement America’s withdrawal from international climate diplomacy. It may also have handed a huge victory to China.
How the grift works
Fri 1 Aug 2025
By Bill McKibben | COMMENT: The Trump administration’s climate policies are one big grift but the president also seems to have fallen for a con set up by European leaders.
Trump administration moves to repeal scientific declaration on dangers of greenhouse gases
31 Jul 2025
In one of its most significant reversals on climate policy to-date, the Trump administration on Tuesday proposed to repeal a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate change endangers human health and safety.
$22B in US clean energy projects canceled so far this year
28 Jul 2025
Thousands of jobs and billions in investments have been ditched in the first half of this year as President Trump’s administration has pushed back on new green energy investments, according to a new report.
