The Biden administration is moving to end a legal battle with California over the state’s authority to regulate motor-vehicle emissions, setting the stage for stricter regulations on the auto industry, Continue Reading
The Trump administration sidelined career staffers at the Environmental Protection Agency when weakening pollution rules for new passenger vehicles, according to a federal watchdog report. The EPA’s inspector general found top Continue Reading
Power-generating windmill turbines are seen during sunset in Bourlon, France, February 23, 2021. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol Europe experienced its hottest year on record last year, while the Arctic suffered a summer Continue Reading
The European Union clinched a deal in the early hours of Wednesday on a landmark climate change law that puts new, tougher greenhouse gas emissions targets at the heart of Continue Reading
Climate change whipsawed through Europe last year, alternately baking locked-up economies beneath record heat before inundating them with unprecedented floods, underscoring the rising levels of uncertainty faced by the continent’s 500 million Continue Reading
The hysteria about urban density that arrived with the coronavirus is—like the pandemic itself—already easing. Regardless of how quickly or slowly urbanites return to their cramped apartments, however, the long Continue Reading
Ioane Teitiota and his wife fought for years to stay in New Zealand as refugees, arguing that rising sea levels caused by climate change threaten the very existence of the Continue Reading
President Biden this week will pledge to slash U.S. greenhouse gas emissions at least in half by the end of the decade, according to two people briefed on the plan, Continue Reading
China’s President Xi Jinping will attend a U.S.-led climate change summit on Thursday at the invitation of President Joe Biden, in the first meeting between the two leaders since the Continue Reading
Highlights 225 million mt CO2 cap put on removals Carbon sink volume increased Negotiated deal needs formal approval Negotiators for the European Council and Parliament reached an informal agreement early Continue Reading
