With a new Trump administration set to get underway in a matter of months, advocates are worried that significant funding for some of Oregon's recent climate legislation could be at risk. Why it matters: Oregon lawmakers passed a package of bills in the 2023 session aimed at increasing the resilience of buildings in the state by incentivizing a transition to electrical appliances.
President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act appropriated $145.4 billion in spending for climate efforts. It's unclear how much of it the administration has protected from President-elect Donald Trump.
Exxon Mobil’s CEO said he wants Presidential-elect Donald Trump to keep the U.S. in the Paris Climate Agreement.
Conservative groups that have long rejected the science underpinning climate action are lining up behind a policy wish list that calls on the incoming Trump team to ax climate agreements, make coal a “preferred means of electricity” and immediately freeze spending tied to the 2022 climate law,
As a mother, grandmother, and climate activist, I felt despair and grief. Climate change wasn’t on the ballot this election cycle. The subject barely made the debate stage, although one candidate once referred to it as a hoax while his newly designated most trusted advisor,
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
The election of Donald Trump as president for a second time and the Republican takeback of the U.S. Senate could undo many of the national climate policies that are most reducing planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions,
Across the country, voters elected new members to Congress who have promoted climate action at the state level and could prevent environmental laws from being weakened under Republican leadership.
Exxon Mobil chair and chief executive Darren Woods warned President-elect Donald Trump against withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement—as Trump has promised to do again—at the annual United Nations COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Tuesday.
If a second Trump term is an epochal event for American democracy, so too is it for the global efforts to address climate change. Trump has a long history denying the science of climate, and will likely,