Stories by Jean Chemnick

President Trump ordered EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to decide by next week whether the agency could abandon its authority to regulate climate pollution under the Clean Air Act

Two judges have ordered the Trump administration to lift a freeze on spending, including at the Environmental Protection Agency. But nonprofits and states still can’t get money for contracts that are backed by the Inflation Reduction Act

President Trump has revoked a 1994 directive that required agencies to protect minority or low-income areas from pollution and health hazards

A fee created to push oil and gas companies to plug methane leaks could be axed by the incoming Trump administration, hampering efforts to curb the potent greenhouse gas

The EPA plans to propose a rule in 2025 that will tackle methane emissions from landfills, one of the country's largest sources of the greenhouse gas

The EPA has released four new pollution rules, most focusing on coal-fired power, as the final pieces of Biden’s push to clean up the power sector

The Biden administration is marking Earth Week with announcements of solar power funding for lower-income communities, an expansion of the Climate Corps and Clean Air Act rules

The EPA’s final rule on car emissions will result in far fewer battery-powered electric vehicles than what the agency envisioned last year

A Biden administration review of natural gas exports could show the U.S. was relying on outdated assumptions about gas’s impact on renewable energy and carbon pollution

At the COP28 climate meeting, the EPA announced the final version of a rule that aims to deeply cut methane emissions by requiring equipment upgrades and regular leak inspections

The Biden administration is poised to release rules and guidance to curb emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas

EPA rules on clean cars, power plants and methane could face delays if there is a federal government shutdown because of budget turmoil in Congress

Calculations determining the climate damage of greenhouse gas emissions—called the social cost of carbon—will be considered in federal agencies’ budgets, permitting decisions and, eventually, government purchases

The EPA has announced new draft rules that would require power plants that burn fossil fuels to capture 90 percent of their climate-warming emissions

The president is creating an Office of Environmental Justice and expanding federal protections for communities that have been historically overburdened by pollution

Aggressive restrictions will affect carbon, smog and soot emissions from compact cars all the way up to long-haul trucks

The IPCC’s latest climate assessment says the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent by 2035, but the U.S. is already behind on a less ambitious target

New funding programs announced at COP27 are helping poor countries transition away from fossil fuels, but the money isn’t going to places without energy

A coalition of businesses and local leaders claim that climate progress under the Biden administration will continue if Republicans control the House

Beginning next week at the COP 27 meeting, global climate negotiators will try to put decades of bureaucratic bargaining into practice in areas where rising temperatures are hitting people the hardest

The landmark Montreal Protocol treaty, agreed to 35 years ago this month, has reduced the use of chemicals that not only thinned the ozone layer but also warmed the planet

There is debate about whether the agency will rely on carbon capture to achieve emissions reductions

Administrator Michael Regan argues regulation of mercury, ozone, water and coal ash will also curb greenhouse gases

Political turmoil in Congress and uncertainty about climate regulations has hampered release of the report showing how the U.S. would cut emissions in half