'Tobacco at a cancer summit': Trump coal push savaged at climate conference.
Bonn climate change conference
The US administration’s attempt to portray fossil fuels as vital to reducing poverty and saving US jobs is ridiculed in Bonn
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Global carbon pollution rises after 3 straight flat years.
WASHINGTON >> Global carbon pollution rose this year after three straight years when levels of the heat-trapping gas didn’t go up at all, scientists...
Song, dance and protest at US energy talk at COP23.
The audience was standing-room-only because protestors wanted a full chorus in the room.
Side events at the UN climate talks are often somewhat sleepy: A...
Canada, U.K. team up in push to end coal-power use.
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and her British counterpart, Claire Perry, will launch an international alliance to phase out coal-fired electricity at the Bonn climate...
One of the world's biggest miners is about to go coal-free.
Just five years ago it would have been almost unthinkable that one of the world’s biggest mining companies would not dig any coal. It’s...
EPA proposes reversing stricter pollution rules for heavy-duty trucks with older engines.
Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said the Obama-era rule disproportionately affected an industry that produces roughly 10,000 gliders a year....
Utilities push for electric car tax credit as Ford stays neutral.
In a letter to House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady, longtime Ford Motor Co. lobbyist Ziad Ojakli thanked the Texas Republican for his...
A behind-the-scenes look at Scott Pruitt's dysfunctional EPA.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt doesn’t hide his contempt for how the agency has been run, but does profess to care about one...
Scientists decry Arctic oil expansion in letter to U.S. senators.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A group of 37 U.S.-based scientists whose research focuses on Arctic wildlife asked two U.S. senators in a letter on...
Republicans plan to turn Puerto Rico into a theme park for fossil-fuel corporations.
The House Committee on Natural Resources convened this week to discuss Puerto Rico’s ongoing hurricane recovery efforts. They talked devastation, debt, and regulations, and...
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