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President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Tuesday that keep aging coal generators running and undermine efforts to rein in pollution, including mercury and arsenic emissions

Agency officials said Monday that NOAA would continue to maintain the Joint Polar Satellite System, crucial weather satellites, after a previous memo suggested maintenance would be deferred

The decision by the Trump administration to defer maintenance of the Joint Polar Satellite System threatens to degrade the accuracy of weather forecasts

An internal FEMA memo says the agency is canceling future and existing grants that help states and tribes prepare for floods, tornadoes and other disasters

Layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services have dealt a critical blow to the agency's efforts to manage rising temperatures made worse by climate change

New Trump administration tariffs on imported goods could exacerbate a shortage of parts used by the energy industry

The National Institutes of Health said it pulled the policy because of language on diversity and inclusion, in line with directives from the Trump administration

Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement’s 2 degree C goal and are examining how to maintain profits

Climate experts whose research is funded by federal grants hide, whisper and wait for their jobs to disappear

Revelations that Trump's Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem plans to abolish or shrink the Federal Emergency Management Agency sent shock waves through state and local emergency responders

Some conservative lawmakers are quietly urging the president to restore research funding as cuts threaten academic institutions in their states

A previously undisclosed FEMA review could block disaster assistance to millions of undocumented people and deter legal immigrants from seeking help in extreme weather

The Defense secretary aims to purge climate work from the Pentagon. But critics say his carve-out for weather resiliency misses the point

As the world gets closer to the mark 1.5 degrees Celsius in Paris climate agreement, scientists are racing to establish a single way to monitor current warming

A plan by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to fire scientists could disrupt environmental rules focused on clean air and water long after President Donald Trump leaves office

RFK, Jr. fought mercury pollution for years, but he is now in an administration that wants to make it easier for industries to dump it into the air and water

A planned project in Texas could be the world’s first direct air capture development to rely primarily on electricity produced on site by wind power

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants to end the Pentagon’s climate efforts. Some experts say the move could hurt military readiness

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin outlined an aggressive plan to dismantle the "holy grail" of climate regulation, the endangerment finding

Tech giants joined states and cities as a pillar of resistance on climate action during President Trump’s first term. Now the coalition is in turmoil

A report from the Natural Resources Defense Council looked at how states balanced transportation needs with climate and equity efforts

The Federal Emergency Management Agency must show in one week whether it is complying with a judge’s ruling that blocks the Trump administration disaster aid freeze

Efforts to limit wildfires in a conservative swath of northern Colorado are the latest casualty of the Trump administration’s on-and-off federal spending freeze

In his State of the Union Speech, President Trump pushed fossil fuel extraction, a plan for developing critical minerals and an Alaska natural gas pipeline