NC Senator Thom Tillis at the Keep America Great rally in Fayetteville, NC on 9/9/2019 Dive Brief: Seven Republican senators on Thursday sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch Continue Reading
Major banks play a major role in financing environmental damage. International banks including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, the Royal Bank of Canada, and BNP Paribas are among the top providers Continue Reading
A rare, translucent, black-and-white crystal that sat in a box for 30 years has led scientists to a startling discovery: The East Antarctic ice sheet , which holds 80 percent Continue Reading
On Wednesday, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced that the U.S. was proposing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes for the first time. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images Environmental Protection Agency Continue Reading
A draft of the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) climate platform calls for net-zero emissions by 2050, in line with the policy goals set forth by presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden Continue Reading
If governments and companies want to move more quickly toward net-zero emissions, progress on early-stage technologies needs to be accelerated, the head of the energy technology policy division at the Continue Reading
A major new study of the relationship between carbon dioxide and global warming lowers the odds on worst-case climate change scenarios while also ruling out the most optimistic estimates nations Continue Reading
Climate change threatens to create turmoil in the financial markets, and the Federal Reserve and other regulators must act to avoid an economic disaster, according to a letter sent on Continue Reading
Joe Biden’s long-anticipated climate plan landed this week, and it contained big promises designed to please some of the presumptive Democratic nominee for president’s key constituencies. After four years of borderline denialism and regulatory rollbacks Continue Reading
The Atlantic Ocean is waking up as the calendar closes in on August, with at least two storm systems to watch and a third area of tropical moisture soaking the Continue Reading
