Climate

President Trump’s tariffs are likely to raise the costs of building renewable energy projects in the United States, analysts say, adding to the challenges of an already struggling industry.Generating equipment, like wind turbines, is often made with parts from...

Over the last few months, Lee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has made explosive accusations against the Biden administration, accusing it of “insane” malfeasance in its handling of $20 billion in climate grants.Now, as a legal battle...

Al Gore, who served as vice president for eight years before becoming a full-time climate activist, knows something about presidential power.And in recent weeks, Gore has watched with alarm as President Trump stretches the limits of executive authority to...

President Trump announced on Monday that he planned to relax limits on pollution from cars, saying that the move wouldn’t “mean a damn bit of difference to the environment.”But decades of science show that the pollution from automobile tailpipes...

A small museum dedicated to the nation’s environmental history is now history, too.On Monday, Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said he had shuttered the museum, which was inside the agency’s headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue in...

When the environmental group Greenpeace lost a nearly $670 million verdict this month over its role in oil pipeline protests, a quarter-billion dollars of the damages were awarded not for the actual demonstrations, but for defaming the pipeline’s owner.The...

Ten years ago, this was just a big hole in the ground behind a Lowe’s home improvement store in southern New Jersey, an unlikely place to find what might be one of the world’s most important fossil sites.But 66...

When Christina Cassotis, the chief executive of Pittsburgh International Airport, heard about the power outage that forced London’s Heathrow Airport to suspend operations last week, she thought of the workers who were frantically trying to manage the chaos.But when...

When President Trump’s cabinet secretaries clashed with Elon Musk this month over the billionaire’s chain saw approach to shrinking government, Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, made it clear where he stood.Mr. Musk had just traded...

Earth is missing a lot of sea ice this year. Enough to cover the entire United States east of the Mississippi.That was announced by researchers at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center on Thursday, who said...