Enviro.News

Trade blockages in the Persian Gulf have reminded the world that there are forces as great as or greater than technology and globalization.

Faced with a president who has called global warming a hoax, officials have filed dozens of suits against oil companies to try to cover the costs of extreme weather.

The justices began their new term with a landmark dispute over whether local governments can hold oil companies liable for damages from climate change.

Under pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored.

Some rural counties in Colorado have sided with the oil firms in the case.

Manufacturers say they are close to perfecting a new, more efficient solar panel that could help the United States reclaim ground it lost.

The justices are about to hear a lawsuit that could determine whether the oil industry faces billions of dollars in liability for damages caused by global warming.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright, speaking at The New York Times’ annual Climate Forward event, dismissed reports that President Trump was preparing to ban U.S. exports of diesel in a bid to lower energy prices.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who owns stock in two oil companies, announced just days before the oral argument that he would step aside from the case.

The justices lack jurisdiction unless the ruling under review is final, and that question is contested.

The justices will hear from three lawyers during the oral arguments.

The Trump administration flipped the Biden administration’s stance. Such reversals, once rare, have become commonplace.

Briefs filed in the case asked the justices to consider what their decision could mean for issues as varied as gun violence and defamation.

The lawsuit is the 97th the state has filed against the Trump administration over the past year and a half.

The mostly Democratic-led states say that the E.P.A. acted unlawfully when it erased Biden-era limits on carbon dioxide from coal- and gas-fired plants.

More politicians have stopped talking about the climate, but the green transition is still moving forward.

A climate scientist was one of 20 recipients of a “no-strings-attached” $800,000 stipend.

A charge against David Hearn was dismissed “with prejudice” because of President Trump’s attempts to influence the case.

One researcher called it a “desperately needed warning sign” that countries need to tackle human-driven climate change.