Now that Donald Trump has taken back the White House, what will become of America’s effort to combat climate change and promote clean energy? Environmental advocates are pondering the question, given Trump’s pro-fossil fuel mentality,
The U.S. and others have agreed to triple their annual climate financing by 2035, but the incoming administration is expected to repudiate the deal.
Trump’s upcoming presidency is the most important source of the instability on display at the COP29 summit, despite all the Biden administration’s efforts to send signals that America is still on board with the climate cause, said Carlos Fuller, Belize’s permanent representative at the United Nations.
Michigan and other battleground states might have swung for Trump — but they elected environmentalists to U.S. Senate seats, too.
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Clean energy tax breaks, pollution rules and America’s participation in the Paris climate agreement could all be on the chopping block once Donald Trump returns to office.
Some of Donald Trump’s first steps on climate change when he enters the White House will send a message that the federal government no longer cares about the issue. He will pull out of the Paris Agreement. Allies say he’ll strip the phrases “climate change,” “clean energy” and “environmental justice” from every agency website.
New York’s efforts to slash emissions face major risks from a second Trump administration. Environmental advocates press Gov. Kathy Hochul to step up.
Many climate-change experts say the second Trump administration's focus on the economy exposes Americans to more long-term risks from flooding, wildfires and hurricane winds because it would increase rather than decrease the amount of climate-warming greenhouse gasses the U.S. pumps into the atmosphere.
One lesson commentators and strategists are drawing from the 2024 election is that Democrats ignore the cost of living at their peril. That has huge implications for climate policy: Even with deadly drought,
With the transition to Donald Trump in the White House and Republican control of Congress, federal initiatives and incentives for climate change mitigation will