President Joe Biden’s climate law is on the chopping block as Republicans prepare to have full control in Washington.
At Newsweek's "Pillars of the Green Transition" event at COP29, panelists talked climate finance and the coming shift in U.S. policy in a second Trump term.
Let’s not sugarcoat things. The outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election represents a setback for climate action. The incoming administration has been very clear that it does not prioritize confronting climate change,
Four counties in Florida that voted for Trump also voted to conserve open space, reduce flood damage and protect habitat
Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), two of the Senate’s most aggressive advocates for action on climate change, said Friday that President-elect Trump’s second term
President-elect Donald Trump. Photos: Getty Images.
The Democratic candidates for Arizona Corporation Commission made climate change an issue, but it did them no good in this year's election.
The timing of Donald Trump’s election victory, a few days before the opening of the COP29 global climate conference, could not have been worse, casting a long shadow over the 50,000 delegates gathered in Baku.
Republicans aren’t a monolith, as 54 percent of them say they support the U.S. participating in international efforts to reduce the effects of climate change, and 60 and 70 percent, respectively, say they want more wind and solar farms. Younger Republicans in particular are also less supportive of expanding fossil fuels, Pew Research surveys show.
The fact that voters in Washington state soundly defeated (62% to 38%) a ballot question affirming one of the most progressive climate laws in the country, during an election that many pundits said was a referendum on inflation, bodes well for continued progress on state and local climate action during Donald Trump’s second presidential term.
For climate activists, the current moment is almost unbearably bleak. But the task is clear: to build a mass movement that completely overhauls our current political system.
White House climate adviser John Podesta on Monday sought to reassure the world that the U.S. would move forward on combating climate change despite the election of President-elect Trump, who has