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S.E.C. Moves to Kill Climate Disclosure Rule
The acting chair, Mark Uyeda, is directing the Securities and Exchange Commission to pause its legal defense of a rule requiring companies to make climate disclosures.
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Under Trump, Billionaire Climate Champions Have Gone Quiet
Since the inauguration, billionaires who funded climate action over the last decade have avoided criticizing Trump’s climate policies.
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Trump Can’t Kill Green Energy
The 20-year move toward lower emissions won’t stop just because of the president.
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NOAA Is Told to Make List of Climate-Related Grants, Setting Off Fears
Staff members search for spending on “climate science,” “climate crisis” and “pollution” as one of the world’s premier climate research agencies girds for cuts.
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Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway.
The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”
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Trump Is Freezing Money for Clean Energy. Republican States Have the Most to Lose.
About 80 percent of manufacturing investments spurred by a Biden-era climate law have flowed to Republican districts. Efforts to stop federal payments are already causing pain.
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Trading Hope for Reality Helps Me Parent Through the Climate Crisis
In the hospital, I learned the first lesson of parenting: You are not in control of what is going to happen, nor can you predict it.
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U.S. Aid Agency’s Climate Programs Aimed to Curb Migration. Now They’re Gone.
Aid projects were designed to help Central Americans withstand extreme weather at home. Their end could undercut Trump’s goal of reducing migration.
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How Could the Weather Service Change Under Trump?
President Trump tangled with its forecasters during his first term. As he slashes government spending, many wonder what that means for weather data.
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Trump Administration Move to Freeze E.V. Charger Funding Confounds States
Some have halted work on the Biden-era $5 billion program to build E.V. charging stations. Others plan to keep building. Most are confused.
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Trump Vows to End Paper Straws Initiative and Bring Back Plastic
The move would run counter to a Biden administration push to cut back on single-use plastic, which was considered a milestone.
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Trump’s Executive Orders Leave Imprint on the Fed
The central bank has halted hiring to align with a White House directive and pulled back its work on climate change.
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Lawsuit Seeks to Block New York’s Climate Change Law Targeting Energy Companies
Emboldened by President Trump, West Virginia and other states are challenging a law that makes corporate polluters pay for past emissions.
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In Greenland, the Ice Doesn’t Just Flow, It Quivers and Quakes
By using a fiber-optic cable to detect tiny vibrations a mile below the surface, scientists discovered a surprising way that ice sheets move.
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Why Coal Has Been So Hard to Quit in the U.S.
What the economics of coal-rich states like Wyoming tells us about the transition away from the dirtiest fossil fuel.
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How Chablis Winemakers Are Fighting Back Against Climate Change
Producers are struggling to stave off environmental threats to Chablis’s distinctive character.
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Documentarian Alex Gibney Teams Up With a Google Billionaire
The Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has sold a majority stake in his Jigsaw Productions to the philanthropist Wendy Schmidt.
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January Was Hottest January on Record, Scientists Report
Earth’s prolonged streak of abnormal heat continued into 2025 despite the arrival of La Niña ocean conditions, which typically bring cooler temperatures.
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Trump Rehires Neil Jacobs, Former NOAA Chief Involved in ‘Sharpiegate’
A respected atmospheric scientist, Dr. Jacobs was found to have violated NOAA’s code of ethics in 2019.
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E.P.A. Demotes Career Employees Overseeing Science, Enforcement and More
A spokeswoman for the agency said the change was “common practice.” Others said it injects partisanship into jobs that have always been neutral.
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