Progressive environmentalists are mounting a long-shot bid to get President-elect Joe Biden to go beyond naming a climate czar and declare an environmental national emergency, borrowing a tactic employed by Continue Reading
Democratic presidential candidate former U.S. Vice president Joe Biden campaigns with former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, December 6, 2019 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images President-elect Joe Continue Reading
Europe is moving to a decisive stage in discussions to toughen the bloc’s 2030 climate target and put into law the ambition to become the world’s first climate neutral continent Continue Reading
Global greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 will drop by 4 percent to 7 percent in 2020 because of the response to the coronavirus pandemic, but that decline won’t stop the Continue Reading
Can you put a price on pollution? Some of the world’s biggest economies are doing just that as they wrestle with how to make good on grand pledges to tame Continue Reading
General Motors said on Monday it was reversing course and will no longer back the Trump administration’s effort to bar California from setting its own emissions rules in an ongoing Continue Reading
Former Secretary of State John Kerry will be named as special presidential envoy for climate by President-elect Joe Biden, according to his transition team, in a sign Biden plans to Continue Reading
GM said it sees a route to compromise on tailpipe-emissions rules. Drivers navigated the freeway in Los Angeles in April. DETROIT—General Motors Co. will no longer back the Trump administration Continue Reading
Most Europeans living in cities are still breathing air that is dangerous to their health, according to the European Environment Agency (EEA) in a new report ; governments are not Continue Reading
World leaders urged countries not to lose sight of climate goals in the coronavirus pandemic, endorsing the aims of the Paris agreement amid hopes that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will rejoin Continue Reading
