Trump’s Climate Rollback Takes on a Key Scientific Finding

The federal government’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases depends on a 2009 scientific determination. The Trump administration wants to repeal it. Read More

National Academies: Climate change’s harms ‘beyond scientific dispute’

In response to the Trump administration repeatedly saying otherwise, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine on Wednesday issued a report that emphasized that climate change’s ... Read More

National Academy of Sciences rebuffs Trump EPA on climate change regulations

The National Academy of Sciences says evidence supporting a 2009 U.S. government finding that climate change threatens public health is “beyond scientific dispute” and the evidence supporting it has o ... Read More

National Academies Will Review Endangerment Finding Science

The nation’s premier group of scientific advisers announced Thursday that it will conduct an independent, fast-track review of the latest climate science. It will do so with an eye to weighing in on ... Read More

Inside the ‘Radical Transformation’ of America’s Environmental Role

The E.P.A. said this week it would revoke its own ability to fight climate change. It’s the latest move in an extraordinary pivot away from science-based protections. The E.P.A. said this week it ... Read More

Trump EPA proposes revoking pollution limits based in part on document authored by 5 climate contrarians

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 ... Read More

Trump wants to scrap scientific finding key to fighting climate change

The Trump administration is trying to overturn the EPA's endangerment finding, which determined that greenhouse gas emissions can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. Lisa Heinzerling, former senior ... Read More

Worried your efforts to curb climate change aren't enough? A new report shows local activism really does work

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. What do an offshore wind farm in New York, a campaign to install 275,000 heat pumps in Maine, and the ... Read More

Battles aren't ending over DOE's contrarian climate science

The Energy Department is disbanding its "working group" of five academics who break with mainstream climate science — but battles over its influence on federal policy aren't going anywhere. State of ... Read More

Climate Scientists Look to Fight Back Against DOE’s ‘Antiscientific,’ ‘Deceptive’ Climate Report

Two Pennsylvania Towns Seek Public Funding for Water Systems Amid Claims That Gas Industry Contaminated Wells World’s Largest Fossil Fuel and Cement Producers Are Responsible for About Half the ... Read More