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Trump Erased the Endangerment Finding. Here Come the Lawsuits.

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By:Karen Zraick
13 February 2026 at 17:52
The battle is expected to reach the Supreme Court, which is far more conservative today than it was when the measure was established.

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President Trump announced on Thursday that his administration would scrap the endangerment finding.

A Climate Supercomputer Is Getting New Bosses. It’s Not Clear Who.

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By:Eric Niiler
13 February 2026 at 17:37
The National Science Foundation said management of the machine, used by researchers for forecasts, disaster warnings and pure science, would be transferred to a “third-party operator.”

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The supercomputer is currently run from the National Center for Atmospheric Research headquarters in Boulder, Colo.
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El Niño May Be Back This Summer, Bringing Drought and Floods

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By:Eric Niiler
12 February 2026 at 15:06
The powerful weather pattern is expected to shift into gear again around June, NOAA said, though its strength this time remains a question.

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A storm in California during the last El Niño phase, in 2023. The El Niño weather pattern has far-reaching influence.

Trump Repeals Key Greenhouse Gas Finding, Erasing EPA’s Power to Fight Climate Change

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By:Lisa Friedman
13 February 2026 at 09:27
The Environmental Protection Agency rejected the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them.

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Rigorous scientific findings since 2009 have shown that greenhouse gases and global warming are harming public health.

What to Know About the E.P.A.’s Big Attack on Climate Regulation

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By:Lisa Friedman and Maxine Joselow
13 February 2026 at 21:03
The Trump administration has repealed the scientific determination that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change.

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E.P.A. administrator Lee Zeldin has claimed that previous administrations used the endangerment finding to justify “trillions of dollars” in regulations on polluting industries and its reversal will help the economy.

Trump Orders Dept. of Defense to Buy Electricity From Coal Sources

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By:Brad Plumer
11 February 2026 at 18:11
Mr. Trump is trying to revive coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel. At the White House, coal executives awarded him a trophy as the “Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal.”

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President Trump signed an executive order. On the desk beside him is a trophy labeled “Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal.”

Climate Change Is Erased From Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence for Judges

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By:Karen Zraick
10 February 2026 at 16:11
After Republican criticism, a group that offers professional resources to judges withdrew a climate science chapter from its Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.

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J.B. McCuskey, the West Virginia attorney general, in Washington last month. He led the effort against the climate chapter in the judges’ handbook.

Behind the E.P.A.’s Rush to Repeal the Endangerment Finding

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By:Maxine Joselow and Lisa Friedman
10 February 2026 at 15:17
The agency is racing to repeal a scientific finding that requires it to fight global warming. Experts say the goal is to get the matter before the justices while President Trump is still in office.

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Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, at the agency’s headquarters in Washington last year.

Seals Are Recruited to Study the Ocean Under Antarctic Glaciers

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By:Raymond Zhong
10 February 2026 at 09:13
The environment is changing rapidly around the melting Thwaites Glacier. Seals can collect data in waters that ships could never reach.

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The tags themselves don’t seem to bother the animals, but Ms. Cheon and Mr. Chung agreed the tagging process tugs on some complicated heartstrings.

Climate ‘Superfund’ Bills Spread Nationwide, Despite Legal Battles

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By:Karen Zraick
6 February 2026 at 11:03
The laws aim to force oil companies to help pay for damage from global warming. Industry is gearing up for state-by-state battles.

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Flooding in Vermont in July 2023. The state was the first to adopt a climate “superfund” law. Other states are now following.

A Chevron Refinery May Take in More Venezuelan Oil. Its Neighbors Are Concerned.

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By:Hiroko Tabuchi and Micah Green
4 February 2026 at 13:25
The American claim on Venezuela’s oil means even more of it could come to a huge Chevron refinery in Mississippi. Neighbors worried about pollution want the company to move them out.

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Attempt to Drill Through Thwaites Glacier Is Foiled

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By:Raymond Zhong
2 February 2026 at 13:49
Scientists lost their instruments within Antarctica’s most dangerously unstable glacier, though not before getting a glimpse at the warming waters underneath.

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Threading a cable through the Thwaites glacier in an attempt to place monitoring equipment.

D.O.E. Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules

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By:Lisa Friedman
30 January 2026 at 16:57
The researchers produced a report that was central in a Trump administration effort to stop regulating climate pollution.

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The judge ruled that Energy Secretary Chris Wright violated the law when he handpicked researchers to work in secret to produce a government report on global warming.

Drilling Through the Thwaites Glacier for Clues to Its Melting

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By:Raymond Zhong
30 January 2026 at 12:59
A team hopes to place instruments in the waters beneath the colossal Thwaites Glacier, with the help of a drill that uses hot water to punch through ice.

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Dutch Court Orders Netherlands to Protect Bonaire From Climate Change

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By:Karen Zraick
28 January 2026 at 15:34
Bonaire, a Dutch overseas territory, deserves the same protections as Europe, the ruling said. The decision adds to a growing body of precedent worldwide.

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Marieke Vellekoop, director of Greenpeace Netherlands, center, with plaintiffs from Bonaire in court in The Hague in October.

Michigan Sues Oil Giants, Saying They Collude to Make Energy Costlier

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By:Karen Zraick
27 January 2026 at 14:36
The lawsuit accuses the companies of raising prices by working against solar and wind power and by downplaying the risks of climate change.

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ExxonMobil is among several major companies and groups named in the Michigan lawsuit.

U.S Has Officially Withdrawn From the Paris Climate Accord

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By:Lisa Friedman
27 January 2026 at 10:55
The United States is the only country to pull out of the global agreement among nations to fight climate change. European diplomats say the U.S. reputation is suffering.

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Moves by the Trump administration underline America’s isolation in the effort to control the greenhouse gases, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels, that are dangerously heating the planet.

Is Climate Change Weakening the Polar Vortex?

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By:Eric Niiler
24 January 2026 at 15:30
Rising Arctic temperatures and melting sea ice could be causing cold air to flow into the Northern Hemisphere. But not all scientists agree.

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A study found that the stretching of the polar vortex was linked to increased severe winter weather in the United States in the past decade.

Rising Global Temperatures May Affect Choices for Winter Olympic Venues

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By:Eric Niiler
21 January 2026 at 07:00
Future games will need to be held at higher altitudes, and spread over multiple venues in order to adapt to a changing climate, new research suggests.

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Gus Schumacher, a member of the U.S. cross-country skiing team, left, competing in Planica, Slovenia, in March 2023.

Virginia Coastal Offshore Wind Project Can Continue, Judge Rules

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By:Brad Plumer
16 January 2026 at 15:58
Construction can continue on an $11.2 billion project off the coast of Virginia, said to be 70 percent complete.

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Wind turbine components at a staging area for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project in Portsmouth, Va., last month.

Toby Kiers, World Champion of Mycorrhizal Fungus

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By:Alan Burdick
14 January 2026 at 15:15
This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and thinking like a mycorrhizal fungus.

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Extreme Weather Events Hit Around the World in 2025

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By:Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
13 January 2026 at 22:04
Last year was Earth’s third hottest globally, but temperature is just one measure of climate change’s influence.

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The Palisades Fire burning along the Pacific Coast Highway early last January.

U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded

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By:Brad Plumer
13 January 2026 at 05:02
The increase in planet-warming emissions came after two years of decline as demand for electricity has been surging.

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A coal-fired power plant near Emmett, Kan. Demand for power has started surging in recent years amid a boom in data centers, an upswing of domestic manufacturing and the spread of electric vehicles.

Under Trump, U.S. Adds Fuel to a Heating Planet

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By:Lisa Friedman
12 January 2026 at 05:02
The president’s embrace of fossil fuels and withdrawal from the global fight against climate change will make it hard to keep warming at safe levels, scientists said.

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America’s greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of coal, oil and gas, which had finally started to decline, rose 1.9 percent after Mr. Trump returned to office.

The Scientists Making Antacids for the Sea to Help Counter Global Warming

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By:Ferris Jabr
11 January 2026 at 14:36
The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into the water.

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Adam Subhas of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

What Is the UNFCCC and Why Is the U.S. Pulling Out?

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By:Somini Sengupta
7 January 2026 at 21:47
The Trump administration said Wednesday that the United States was withdrawing from 66 international agreements, including a major climate change treaty.

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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, is the treaty that sets a legal framework for international negotiations to address climate change.

Trump Pulls U.S. Out of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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By:Somini Sengupta and Lisa Friedman
8 January 2026 at 06:18
The action could make it more difficult for a future administration to rejoin the Paris climate accord, the agreement among most nations to fight climate change.

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President Trump addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York last year.

The Icebreaker Araon Reaches the Thwaites Glacier

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By:Raymond Zhong
7 January 2026 at 17:36
After a 12-day crossing, and a hard slog through sea ice, the field work on this Antarctic expedition is ready to start.

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The crew of the Araon began preparing equipment after arriving in the waters in front of the Thwaites Glacier on Wednesday.

The Trump Administration Approved a Big Lithium Mine. A Top Official’s Husband Profited.

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By:Lisa Friedman
3 January 2026 at 11:30
Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn’t disclose a $3.5 million water-rights contract between her husband and the developers of a Nevada mine, records show.

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The Lithium Nevada Corp. mining site in 2023.

Before Electric Vehicles Became Political, There Was the Toyota Prius

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By:Lawrence Ulrich
27 December 2025 at 05:00
The political polarization of battery-powered cars may have started when Toyota released its first hybrid model 25 years ago.

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The marketing for the Toyota Prius may have inadvertently started the culture war around hybrid and electric vehicles by characterizing them as a way to save the planet, some experts say.
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