President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the energy department believes fossil fuels are the key to ending world poverty which, he says, is a greater problem than climate change's "distant" threat,

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It’s true that President-Elect Donald Trump prefers golf courses and MAGA merch to national parks and wildlife; he’s a noted climate change denier and shameless booster of dirty fossil fuels. It’s also true that those character flaws weren’t the same ones that got him reelected.

For those who worry about climate change all the time, the results of the November election seemed to send a clear message: American voters just don’t care as much as you do. But even though President-elect Donald Trump took the popular vote while pledging to roll back the country’s landmark climate legislation,

With the transition to Donald Trump in the White House and Republican control of Congress, federal initiatives and incentives for climate change mitigation will

In 2023, the Maryland Department of the Environment released the Climate Pollution Reduction Plan, requiring the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2045. Let’s lead and make that transition more quickly.

In 1996, the IPCC concluded that “the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate”. Controversy around the scientific veracity of this finding was initiated by an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, in which an American physicist accused the lead authors of corrupting the IPCC peer-review process.

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Energy is fossil fuel executive Chris Wright — who has misleadingly claimed on LinkedIn that “there is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either.”

American officials are seeking to assure the world that U.S. climate action won’t end with the return of Donald Trump as president.

The incoming class includes a Republican who has promoted renewable energy and a Democrat who helped craft the Paris climate accords.

Trump has said he’ll repeal President Biden’s climate law, but one North Carolina district shows how hard unwinding multibillion-dollar projects could be.