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

Today 11:15am - 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

Wednesday - 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'

Tuesday - 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

Monday - 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 25 - 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 25 - 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 25 - In the US, customers are buying while there are still incentives and no extra tariffs.

US government terminates $20B in climate grants

13 Mar 25 - 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...

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

12 Mar 25 - 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 25 - 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...

US withdrawing from plan to help major polluters move from coal

7 Mar 25 - 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 25 - 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 25 - 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 25 - 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...

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

4 Mar 25 - "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 25 - 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 25 - 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 25 - 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 25 - 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...