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20 01 2021 | 09:38

Washington state charts path for 2025 coal-free electricity, 2030 carbon-neutral electricity.

After 18 months of workshops, hearings and document revisions, the Washington State Department of Commerce and the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission adopted rules to require investor…

12 01 2021 | 09:11

22 disasters, 262 dead, $95bn in damages: US saw record year for climate-driven catastrophes.

Report shows US was battered by punishing extreme weather on both the east and west coasts in 2020. The US was battered by a record number of weather and climate-driven disasters in 2020 as…

11 01 2021 | 12:21

Groundbreaking Court Case Argues U.S. Climate Denial Policy Violates Americans’ Right to Be Free.

In 2019 a study linked climate change and hotter weather to early childbirth in the United States.

10 01 2021 | 10:33

World's 500 Richest People Added $1.8 Trillion to Their Combined Wealth in 2020.

Bloomberg's year-end report on the wealth of the world's billionaires shows that the richest 500 people on the planet added $1.8 trillion to their combined wealth in 2020, accumulating a total net…

03 01 2021 | 09:01

'I'll be fierce for all of us': Deb Haaland on climate, Native rights and Biden.

The 60-year-old congresswoman will be the first Native American cabinet secretary next month when she takes over at interior. Debra Haaland is making American history. The 60-year-old congresswoman…

03 01 2021 | 08:55

Biden must be our 'climate president'. He can start by ending pipeline projects

There is no way to mine fossil fuels without driving the planet past 1.5C of warming and putting Indigenous communities at risk. As we prepare to turn the page on 2020, and inaugurate Joe Biden as…

03 01 2021 | 08:26

Massachusetts city to post climate change warning stickers at gas stations.

Bright yellow stickers warn drivers burning of gasoline has ‘major consequences on human health and the environment’ Cambridge, Massachusetts, has become the first US city to mandate the placing of…

27 12 2020 | 08:00

Breakingviews - Big Oil will cash in on sun and wind.

LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - The sun will come out tomorrow for oil titans. Even as stock markets rallied broadly from pandemic-induced 33% dives in March, share prices for BP, Royal Dutch Shell…

27 12 2020 | 07:47

Biden Calls Climate Change ‘Existential Threat of Our Time’.

President-elect Joe Biden introduced on Saturday key members of the team he is assembling to fulfill his pledge to combat climate change, calling them brilliant and qualified. Climate change is “the…

27 12 2020 | 07:24

U.S. federal spending bill includes funding to combat climate change.

The bill providing coronavirus aid and funding the U.S. government that is expected to be approved on Monday contains measures to address climate change, including limiting the use of a potent…

27 12 2020 | 07:08

Is a racially-biased algorithm delaying health care for one million Black people?

Sweeping calculation suggests it could be — but how to fix the problem is unclear. One million Black adults in the United States might be treated earlier for kidney disease if doctors were to remove…

17 12 2020 | 12:29

US to hold world climate summit early next year and seek to rejoin Paris accord

Action points for first 100 days of Joe Biden presidency seen as boost to international action currently falling behind The US will hold a climate summit of the world’s major economies early next…

13 12 2020 | 07:29

550 Groups Urge Biden to Become #PlasticFreePresident With 8 Executive Actions.

A large and diverse coalition of over 550 organizations came together Tuesday to call on President-elect Joe Biden to tackle the plastic pollution crisis through executive actions that would…

13 12 2020 | 06:47

US plans to protect thousands of miles of coral reefs in Pacific and Caribbean.

Proposals cite climate change as most severe threat to US reefs, which may be in danger of disappearing in some places.

11 12 2020 | 13:26

What is the Paris Climate Agreement and when can Biden rejoin deal?

President-elect Joe Biden has vowed that among the first things he will do on entering the White House is rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, the international pact to cut global emissions and get a…

07 12 2020 | 07:02

Wood Mackenzie: U.S. battery storage installations set to soar to 7.5GW by 2025.

The U.S. energy storage industry smashed its quarterly installation record with an influx of major projects in the third quarter. The industry had just broken records in the second quarter, but it…

05 12 2020 | 13:04

Can Joe Biden make good on his revolutionary climate agenda?

Although he faces a split Congress, the US president-elect has levers he can pull in the government to advance clean energy and curb global warming.

01 12 2020 | 11:50

Alternative Frameworks for Biden-Harris Africa & Climate Policies

Two issues of the Washington, DC-based AfricaFocus Bulletin present several views on why the incoming administration should adopt policies on Africa and the climate crises that differ from past…

30 11 2020 | 09:15

Climate crisis – live: Email carbon footprint ‘not a worry’ while activists protest Biden hiring oil figure.

Follow the action as it happened A report published in the FT yesterday claimed officials involved in preparations for next year’s UN COP26 climate change summit have been “looking at research…