Vermont Democrats prepare for a long fight in federal court, but they believe making oil companies pay for past greenhouse gas emissions will eventually pass legal muster.

Gov. Hochul keeps kicking the climate-change can down the road, postponing New York’s aggressive emissions laws — but her ...

Climate superfunds are cumbersome, violate due process, and do not help in the fight against climate change. Some states are ...

And the monstrous tax-and-spending bill currently being debated in Congress would phase out popular clean energy tax credits, ...

A slew of measures that passed the Senate failed to come up for a vote in the Assembly. Advocates blame Speaker Carl Heastie, ...

Adequate time for public input on four factories with a 20-plus year construction time ... is not too much to ask” writes Hilary-Anne Coppola on behalf of 16 groups.

The only PFAS bill to pass the full legislature this year was one banning the chemicals and other toxic substances in ...

The companies and others are helping powerful lobbying groups fight lawmakers' efforts to address climate change.

The nation's largest city has an ambitious plan to cut emissions. Mayoral frontrunners Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani could ...

It is the second year in a row that a heat wave has hit the New York City region earlier than usual, as global warming is ...

Gov. Hochul unveiled New York's nuclear power plant project to power a million homes, which faces permit challenges while ...

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