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Climate Week 2015: The Main Events
A year ago, hundreds of thousands of protesters snaked their way through midtown Manhattan as part of the pivotal People's Climate March, the centerpiece of Climate Week, an annual collection of...
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Fossil Fuel Divestment Has Grown to $2.6 Trillion in Assets
The fossil fuel divestment movement skyrocketed in the past year as hundreds of institutions and thousands of individuals committed to selling their oil, natural gas and coal holdings, according to a...
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Pope Francis to Congress: Act on Issues of Life and Death, Including Climate
In a landmark speech to a Joint Session of Congress Thursday morning, Pope Francis urged U.S. lawmakers to take "courageous actions and strategies" to fight climate change."We need a conversation which...
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Pope Francis to UN: Climate Key to Sustainable Development
Pope Francis told world leaders on Friday that in order to address poverty, hunger, war and inequality, they must first tackle climate change."A selfish and boundless thirst for power and material...
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China Unveils Plans for National Cap and Trade Program
China announced new details about a national cap and trade program on Friday, demonstrating its commitment to tackling climate change.The plans are a follow-up to the historic announcement China made...
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Using Music to Inspire a Generation to Save the World
With 60,000 people crowded into Central Park Saturday for an evening of music and activism, messages about the need to fight poverty, inequality and climate change filled the air between sets by...
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500-Year Floods Coming to New York Every 24 Years, Study Says
New York City is vulnerable to rising seas and larger, more powerful storms that result in more frequent and intense flooding and what was once a 500-year flood prior to human-induced climate change...
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No Match for the Arctic, Shell Abandons Drilling
Royal Dutch Shell announced Monday it is abandoning a multibillion-dollar effort to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic, bowing not to the vocal protests or calls to save the climate, but to cold hard...
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AP Styles 'Deniers' into 'Doubters,' Creating Newsroom Skeptics
A week after the Associated Press changed its official style on how to describe people who do not accept climate change science, its attempt to clarify the issue has resulted in little clarity. There...
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The Highs and (Mostly) Lows of Shell’s Failed Arctic Adventure
In the 10 years between Royal Dutch Shell's first purchase of a drilling rig destined for the Arctic and the company's decision to close its Arctic oil and gas exploration program on Monday, it has...
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ExxonMobil Faces Heightened Risk of Climate Litigation, Its Critics Say
ExxonMobil may face renewed legal challenges from plaintiffs claiming that it should have acted to address the risks of climate change, based on new evidence that its own researchers warned management...
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Nebraska Landowners Hold Keystone XL at Bay With Lawsuit
TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, has pulled out of a lawsuit launched by Nebraska landowners who oppose the project. The move ensures another delay of seven to 12 months in the...
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After Boehner, Could the House Get Even Less Climate Friendly?
In the week since Rep. John Boehner made the surprise announcement he will leave Congress at the end of October, the contentious factions of the GOP have been jockeying over who should replace Boehner...
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Too Cozy with Coal? Group Charges Feds Are Rubber-Stamping Mine Approvals
Environmental advocates are suing federal officials, alleging they approved the expansion of four Western coal mines on public lands without adequately taking their climate impacts into account.The New...
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India Promises to Slash Emissions, but Wants Help
India submitted its long-awaited climate pledge on Thursday, vowing to reduce the intensity of its emissions 33 to 35 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.India is last of the major carbon emitters to...
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Exxon Gets Fine, Harsh Criticism for Pegasus Pipeline Spill
ExxonMobil has been hit with a $2.6 million fine and harshly criticized by federal safety officials for failing to maintain an aging oil pipeline that burst two years ago in a quiet Arkansas...
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Climate Treaty Forecast: Cloudy With a Chance of Disaster
If the climate pledges countries have submitted are any indication of whether the world can save itself with a global climate treaty, the planet doesn’t stand a chance.More than 140 countries have...
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Ozone, Mercury, Ash, CO2: Regulations Take on Coal’s Dirty Underside
When the EPA tightened the national standard for ozone pollution last week, the coal industry and its allies saw it as a costly, unnecessary burden, another volley in what some have called the war on...
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Climate Scientist Faces Backlash for Urging Investigation of Fossil Fuel...
This story was updated on Oct. 7 at 2:00 p.m. A climate scientist who was the lead signatory on a letter urging President Obama to launch a federal investigation into whether fossil fuel companies...
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Highlighting the Allure of Synfuels, Exxon Played Down the Climate Risks
Early in the 1980s, the lingering fear of oil scarcity and the emerging threat of climate change were beginning to intersect. And at that junction stood Exxon Corp., working out its strategy for...
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