Coastal Restoration

Efforts to block research on climate change don’t just come from the Trump political appointees on top. Lower managers in government are taking their cues, and running with them.

Both are existential challenges—and a president who belittles and neglects science has made them both tougher to address

An evidence-free troll campaign blames arsonists for the worst fire season in modern Australian history, not climate change. It's BS.

The Trump administration’s plan to relax fuel-economy and vehicle pollution standards could be a boon to U.S. oil producers who’ve quietly lobbied for the measure.

Trump has no legal grounds to overturn California's anti-smog rules.

A proposed policy would bar the E.P.A. from considering research that doesn't release its raw data for review, blocking some significant work.

The oil giant is attacking its accusers through a Texas court, similar to how it tried to block investor fraud investigations by New York and Massachusetts.

Rep. Lamar Smith has led a strategic attack on climate science using the committee he chairs. Back in Texas, his constituents face the effects of global warming.

Congress ordered destruction of vital sea-ice probe

Watch "War on the EPA" for the backstory on how the battle over environmental regulations and climate science has been waged.

A tech billionaire’s PowerPoint brought the Trillion Trees climate plan to the president, a textbook case of ad hoc policymaking in the Trump era.

The judge excoriated the New York AG, but also said: 'nothing in this opinion is intended to absolve Exxon from responsibility for contributing to climate change.'

Scientists say global warming is behind severe storms but many who face them don’t think humans are the problem

Ryan Zinke worked to gut forest protections as Montana’s U.S. representative. Now, as interior secretary, he’s pushing the same timber-friendly policies.

We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves. A tragedy in two acts.

Conspiracy theorists have an à la carte attitude to data and trust, so what can scientists do about it?

We’ve collected the highlights from what turned out to be a daylong grilling over allegations of ethical infractions and lavish spending by the E.P.A. head.

A new policy would prevent the EPA from using decades of science research when crafting regulations.

Nearly one year into the Trump presidency, a makeshift coalition is grappling with how to preserve mass amounts of federal climate information that many researchers fear is at risk.