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New York Attorney General Subpoenas Exxon on Climate Research
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office demanded that ExxonMobil Corporation give investigators documents spanning four decades of research findings and communications about climate...
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Obama Rejects Keystone XL on Climate Grounds, 'Right Here, Right Now'
President Obama rejected TransCanada's permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, ending a years-long fight that helped reinvigorate the environmental movement and slow the momentum of fossil...
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Subpoena Power: Exxon's Climate Scandal Now Under a Spotlight
After it was revealed that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office is investigating what oil giant Exxon Mobil knew about climate change compared to what it told the public and investors,...
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Latest Climate Polls: More Knowledge but Urgency Lags
As the final weeks tick down to international climate treaty talks in Paris, social scientists are releasing a bevy of new data demonstrating the breadth and diversity of support for action on global...
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Peabody Settlement Shows Muscle of Law Now Aimed at Exxon
Pulling the same legal levers as those involved in its climate change investigation of ExxonMobil, the New York state attorney general's office obtained an agreement from coal giant Peabody Energy to...
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How We Got the Exxon Story
On the second day of a staff retreat last January, the InsideClimate News team planned to discuss possible investigative projects for the coming year. More than any of the reporters, publisher David...
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Controversial Climate Fund Scrambles to Fund Its First Projects
The main fund to help the world's poorest cope with climate change cleared an obstacle last week after an all-night negotiating session in Zambia settled on the first projects to receive $363 million....
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Investors Urge Exxon to Take Moral Responsibility for Global Warming
ExxonMobil stockholders are turning up the heat on management over the oil giant's history of resisting action to confront climate change with a first-ever request asking the company to accept moral...
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As CO2 Passes 400 PPM, What Goes Up Might Not Come Down
Carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere once again exceeded 400 parts per million Monday, but this time they may never fall back down, according to scientists.While not a tipping point that...
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Top $450 Billion Annually, Study Says
The governments of the world's 20 largest economies spend more than $450 billion annually subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, a new analysis has concluded, four times more than what they spend on...
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Impacts on Oceans Need Urgent Attention in Climate Talks, Researchers Say
Warming waters, rising sea levels, ocean acidification and changing water currents caused by climate change are having devastating effects on marine environments, scientists say.But despite these...
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Climate Scientist Michael Mann: Exxon Story 'Confirmed Things We Long Suspected'
Climate scientist Michael Mann has spent much of his career in the crosshairs of climate denialists. A professor of meteorology and director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State...
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Resolution Opposing All New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Passes in Portland
Portland, Oregon took astep toward combatting climate change on Thursday when its leaders unanimously supported a resolution to actively oppose the local expansion of all new fossil fuel storage and...
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Daniel Ellsberg: #ExxonKnew Is the Best 'Thank You' Since the Pentagon Papers
Whistleblowers' champion says he is elated that he inspired InsideClimate News' Exxon investigation.Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg is seen here in San Francisco in 2010. ICN Publisher...
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Science Museums Cutting Financial Ties to Fossil Fuel Industry
Chicago’s Field Museum joins several others in divesting its industry holdings, and the London Science Museum drops Shell sponsorship.The California Academy of Sciences said it has been moving away...
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Climate Activists Vow to Demonstrate During Paris Talks
In the wake of terrorist attacks that rattled Paris, United Nations climate talks will proceed, and groups are pressing for protests to go on as well.As Paris mourns, climate activists have to figure...
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Calling for Full Divestment, Stanford Students Renew Protest
Students, faculty and staff want Stanford University to purge its large endowment of all fossil fuel stocks, not just coal. Stanford students protest on November 16, 2015, outside the university...
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Global Coal Consumption Likely Has Peaked, Report Says
'The global peak reflects a remarkable peak and decline in Chinese coal consumption.'A new report finds that global coal consumption "likely" peaked in 2013, with China, the world's biggest coal...
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Economy Would Gain Two Million New Jobs in Low-Carbon Transition, Study Says
Work created by a transition to clean energy would more than offset the loss of fossil fuel jobs by 2050, researchers say.Power lines run by a wind farm near Milford, Utah. A new report finds that...
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Paris Climate March Is Canceled Over Security Concerns
The Nov. 30-Dec. 11 negotiations are scheduled to continue as planned, with Obama and more than 100 other world leaders slated to attend.People clap at the end of a minute of silence at the Place de la...
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