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Judge Amy Coney Barrett speaks and gestures into a mic during the third day of her Senate confirmation hearing.
Environment
How would a Justice Amy Coney Barrett rule on the environment?
Kavanaugh 2006
Politics
What would a Justice Kavanaugh mean for the environment?
US Supreme Court nominee judge Brett Kavanaugh is shown looking down at a microphone.
Environment
What a Justice Kavanaugh could mean for climate change
Juliana v US kids
Justice
Circuit court declines to halt climate case brought by youth plaintiffs
The Polar jet stream carries weather systems around the northern hemisphere. It's powered by the temperature differential between the Arctic and areas farther south, but new research finds that it's being disrupted as rapid warming in the Arctic reduces t
Global Politics
Here’s a new climate change reality that Trump’s new policies ignore
President Trump shakes hands with a coal miner
Environment
Two US coal miners, two very different perspectives on the future of coal
Scott Pruitt
Environment
How do you run a government agency you have spent so much time suing?
Trump and Gorsuch
Justice
How might a Justice Gorsuch rule on environmental cases before the Supreme Court?
EXIM Bank fossil fuels
Environment
Obama’s hidden, and surprising, fossil fuel legacy
Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma (c) at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Pruitt, who Donald Trump has nominated to run the Environmental Protection Agency, is a fierce critic of the EPA in general and its efforts to cut c
Environment
With Trump’s EPA pick, the prospects for stopping dangerous global warming just got a lot cooler
Homer City plant
Environment
US coal plants are preparing to comply with new EPA rules