Ellen Knickmeyer

President Joe Biden signs an executive ...

Biden: “We can’t wait any longer” to address climate crisis

January 27, 2021 at 4:54 p.m.

In the most ambitious U.S. effort to stave off the worst of climate change, President Joe Biden signed executive orders Wednesday to transform the nation鈥檚 heavily fossil-fuel powered economy into...

President Joe Biden speaks during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)

President Biden puts U.S. back into fight to slow global warming

January 20, 2021 at 4:25 p.m.

President Joe Biden planned Wednesday to return the United States to the worldwide fight to slow global warming in one of his first official acts, and to immediately launch a...

Biden to pick Rep. Deb Haaland as interior secretary, making her first Native American to lead in agency’s history

December 17, 2020 at 1:02 p.m.

President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland as interior secretary, according to a person familiar with the decision, a historic pick that would make her the...

Trump administration moves ahead on gutting bird protections

November 27, 2020 at 10:32 a.m.

The Trump administration moved forward Friday on gutting a longstanding federal protection for the nation's birds, over objections from former federal officials and many scientists that billions more birds will...

Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., listens as Vice President Mike Pence answers a question during the vice presidential debate Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, at Kingsbury Hall on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)

FACT CHECK: Mike Pence echoes Donald Trump falsehoods in VP debate

October 8, 2020 at 9:11 a.m.

Although more buttoned-up on the stage than his boss, Vice President Mike Pence nevertheless echoed many of President Donald Trump’s falsehoods Wednesday in the one and only debate with Democratic...

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6 former EPA bosses call for agency reset after Trump鈥檚 regulation-chopping, industry-minded first term

August 12, 2020 at 7:33 a.m.

Six former Environmental Protection Agency chiefs are calling for an agency reset after President Donald Trump’s regulation-chopping, industry-minded first term, backing a detailed plan by former EPA staffers that ranges...

OPEC, oil nations agree to nearly 10M barrel cut amid coronavirus

April 12, 2020 at 9:36 p.m.

OPEC, Russia and other oil-producing nations on Sunday finalized an unprecedented production cut of nearly 10 million barrels, or a tenth of global supply, in hopes of boosting crashing prices...

Trump rollback of mileage standards guts climate change push

March 31, 2020 at 11:47 a.m.

The Trump administration rolled back ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards Tuesday, raising the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years to come and gutting one of the United States'...

Democratic presidential hopeful Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth ...

Campaign crunch time for Democrats forces progressives to eye private jets

January 25, 2020 at 6:04 p.m.

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have spent the past year courting the Democratic Party's base with appeals to the working class and sweeping promises to curb climate change.

FILE – In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, file photo, an egret looks for food along Valhalla Pond in Riverview, Fla. The Trump administration was expected to announce completion as soon as Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, of one of its most momentous environmental rollbacks, removing federal protections for millions of miles of the country’s streams, arroyos and wetlands. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara, File)

Trump rollback could leave nation’s waterways vulnerable to pollution

January 24, 2020 at 6:00 a.m.

The Trump rule narrows the 2015 definition of what抖阴ap a protected body of water and effectively removes safeguards for some waterways that had been put into place with the 1972...

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