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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…