In victory for Biden, U.S. Senate OKs $1.2T bipartisan infrastructure bill
North Carolina’s Tillis and Burr defy Trump by helping to craft compromise legislation The U.S. Senate passed 69-30 on Tuesday a sweeping bipartisan $1.2 trillion...
John Kerry says Donald Trump destroyed the U.S.’s credibility on climate change
Special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry explained in an interview that former President Donald Trump’s actions caused other countries to be wary of trusting...
After Trump, US researchers urge Biden to block political meddling in science
US researchers and science groups appealed to President Joe Biden’s administration last week to protect government science from political interference and to empower federal scientists...
The Easy Climate-Change Win that Rashida Tlaib Backs But Joe Biden Fails to Seize
The Biden administration has signaled its commitment to tackling the financial risks posed by climate change through executive orders and key appointments. But advocates say...
The Biden Administration’s Embrace of Environmental Justice Has Made Wary Activists Willing to Believe
Decades after emerging from the broader civil rights movement, setting itself apart from traditional environmentalism, flourishing in academia and wending through public discourse, the environmental...
Biden Wants To Take On The Fossil-Fuel Industry. Dozens Of His Officials Are Invested In It
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden tried to distance himself from oil, gas and coal companies, pledging not to accept money from fossil-fuel firms. Dozens of those now serving in his...
Biden’s executive orders on climate have broad public support
Governing from the White House by executive actions – whether by executive orders or variations thereon – has its pluses and minuses.
Biden Meets Virtually With Canada’s Trudeau on Climate Change, Covid-19, Economic Recovery
Meeting marked Biden’s first one-on-one encounter as U.S. president with another world leader