Let’s not sugarcoat things. The outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election represents a setback for climate action. The incoming administration has been very clear that it does not prioritize confronting climate change,

There is uncertainty about what will happen to the world's battle against climate change as President-elect Trump says he'll again withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement. Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, joined CBS News ...

The UN COP meetings are an annual chance for nearly 200 nations to get together to discuss (and hopefully act on) climate change. Greatest hits from the talks include the Paris Agreement, a 2015 global accord that set a goal to limit global warming to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) above preindustrial levels.

Many of Trump’s anti-environmental and climate policies will likely be tempered at home and abroad by states, governments and even fossil fuel executives

The timing of Donald Trump’s election victory, a few days before the opening of the COP29 global climate conference, could not have been worse, casting a long shadow over the 50,000 delegates gathered in Baku.

Trump allies have floated plans targeting the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, where many of NOAA's climate scientists work.

For climate activists, the current moment is almost unbearably bleak. But the task is clear: to build a mass movement that completely overhauls our current political system.

The fact that voters in Washington state soundly defeated (62% to 38%) a ballot question affirming one of the most progressive climate laws in the country, during an election that many pundits said was a referendum on inflation, bodes well for continued progress on state and local climate action during Donald Trump’s second presidential term.

Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has a long history of distorting and denying climate research while on the air at the cable news channel. That tracks with Trump’s dismissal of global warming as a “hoax.”

John Podesta, President Biden’s clean energy adviser, said agencies were racing to deliver money from the 2022 climate law before Donald Trump arrives.

In this episode of “Burning Questions,” host Amy Scott talks with Washington Post climate reporter Shannon Osaka to unpack what a second Donald Trump administration means for climate policy, how state climate measures performed,