NYT Global Warming Climate Change

It’s time to require these companies to compensate communities, homeowners, businesses and even insurers for the losses.

Legal experts said the president was testing the boundaries of executive power with aggressive orders designed to stop the country from transitioning to renewable energy.

In a sweeping order, President Trump halted federal approvals for new wind farms, in a move that could affect projects on land and in the ocean.

Officials and business executives at the annual gathering in Switzerland said the fight against global climate change would continue with or without the United States.

Automakers and even some Republicans may fight to preserve funds, and environmental activists will likely sue, but some experts said that some changes may not survive legal challenges.

President Trump’s wave of executive orders yesterday sent an undeniable signal to the world about the United States’ role in fighting climate change.

El presidente de EE. UU. hizo movimientos políticos después de tomar posesión: se retiró de acuerdos internacionales, prometió aranceles e indultó a casi todos los alborotadores del 6 de enero.

President Trump made major policy moves immediately after taking office, withdrawing from major international agreements, promising steep tariffs and pardoning nearly all of the Jan. 6 rioters.

In “Dark Laboratory,” Tao Leigh Goffe traces the origins of global environmental collapse to the explorer’s conquest of the Caribbean.

The United States would be one of only four countries outside the Paris Agreement, which is designed to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

The president said he’d declare an energy “emergency,” promote drilling and end support for electric cars. His pivot to oil and gas follows the hottest year in recorded history.

Several large U.S. financial institutions, including the Federal Reserve, have withdrawn from the networks after years of growing political and legal pressure.

Some more realistic ways to think about the challenges ahead.

Somini Sengupta, a Times climate reporter, reflects on a city, its mythology and a reckoning with disaster.

You don’t need to settle for what your insurance company or the government first offers. And you don’t have to fight alone.

The central bank said it had decided to leave the network after the group’s work “increasingly broadened in scope.”

A new U.S. president’s promise to expand fossil fuels that is at odds with global ambitions to combat climate change will be a topic of discussion at the World Economic Forum.

Agencies and unions have put in place new guardrails designed to limit political interference in government research.

New York and Vermont recently passed laws like these, which require energy companies to pay climate damages and will likely face fierce challenges.

The global landscape of today is less predictable and more disordered. But it need not be less cooperative.