With a new Trump administration set to get underway in a matter of months, advocates are worried that significant funding for some of Oregon's recent climate legislation could be at risk. Why it matters: Oregon lawmakers passed a package of bills in the 2023 session aimed at increasing the resilience of buildings in the state by incentivizing a transition to electrical appliances.
President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act appropriated $145.4 billion in spending for climate efforts. It's unclear how much of it the administration has protected from President-elect Donald Trump.
The country swerved to the right. But individual states can push for climate change policies, the governor said.
The former congressman from New York is a strong supporter of Donald Trump and voted against certifying the 2020 election.
Nations gather to discuss who should pay to prevent the worst effects of climate change. But Donald Trump’s US election win might dampen commitments.
The election of Donald Trump as president for a second time and the Republican takeback of the U.S. Senate could undo many of the national climate policies that are most reducing
Conservative groups that have long rejected the science underpinning climate action are lining up behind a policy wish list that calls on the incoming Trump team to ax climate agreements, make coal a “preferred means of electricity” and immediately freeze spending tied to the 2022 climate law,
White House climate adviser John Podesta on Monday sought to reassure the world that the U.S. would move forward on combating climate change despite the election of President-elect Trump, who has
If a second Trump term is an epochal event for American democracy, so too is it for the global efforts to address climate change. Trump has a long history denying the science of climate, and will likely,
Democratic governors of two U.S. states pledged on Friday to keep building programs on renewable energy and curbing climate change after President-elect Donald Trump's victory this week.