Chris Wright, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Energy Department, has denied the well-established connection between climate change and extreme weather, claiming that storms are not getting more intense.

Many climate-change experts say the second Trump administration's focus on the economy exposes Americans to more long-term risks from flooding, wildfires and hurricane winds because it would increase rather than decrease the amount of climate-warming greenhouse gasses the U.S. pumps into the atmosphere.

After rapid growth in the climate tech sector, experts say it's time to pick winners and back them with private investments to keep the clean energy transition going.

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Energy is fossil fuel executive Chris Wright — who has misleadingly claimed on LinkedIn that “there is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either.”

Human activity has caused the Earth's average temperature to increase a little more the 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the late 19th century.

U.S. envoys to COP29, such as John Podesta, a senior Democratic operative who served under the Clinton, Obama, and Biden administrations, are messaging that Trump’s

China is installing wind and solar power projects faster than any other country on the planet. As President-elect Donald Trump is likely to roll back on the US’ role as a global climate leader, experts say China will have to lead the charge.

The Inflation Reduction Act, passed in 2022, is the single-most effective, far-reaching piece of climate legislation ever enacted by the U.S. Congress. But it is now under threat.

Let’s not sugarcoat things. The outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election represents a setback for climate action. The incoming administration has been very clear that it does not prioritize confronting climate change,

President Joe Biden’s climate law is on the chopping block as Republicans prepare to have full control in Washington.

At Newsweek's "Pillars of the Green Transition" event at COP29, panelists talked climate finance and the coming shift in U.S. policy in a second Trump term.

The crisis she was focused on — primarily through her popular Instagram account WeBravelyGo, but also on other social-media channels — was climate change, and what realistic things regular people can do to make a difference.