Tuesday’s elections delivered a nationwide sweep of results with positive potential for climate and environmental policy. The new Congress will have power to slow or reverse some of the Trump ...

There are several ways to try to make polluters pay. California is considering a new one — empower the state Attorney General to sue oil and gas companies to recover costs on behalf of Californians ...

Tuesday's election puts Democrats in position to block some of Trump's anti-environmental efforts while expanding state clean ...

Xavier Becerra will have to confront rising energy costs. As a candidate he proposed a promising free-electricity program.

The topic of climate change was mostly missing from the midterm campaign trail and yet the election results could go down as the biggest climate election in U.S. history. Both things can be true. Yes, ...

The permit reform bill needlessly takes an ax to section 401 of the Clean Water Act, a key protection of streams and rivers.

NEPA has been dramatically weakened in the past three years. Remarkably, permit reformers still see weakening further as a ...

The Russian government has gone from joking about fur coats to catching up with global trends but the Arctic is one arena ...

The most problematic provision in the permitting reform bill is permit certainty. It’s not even clear it will accomplish what it sets out to do. I’ve written a bunch about the issues with the permit ...

The government's evasions in the golf course case were shot down when Trump said the quiet part out loud. The judge was not ...

Methane is an invisible gas that haunts the air we breathe, and EPA’s latest attempt to dismantle crucial pollution ...