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Judge Amy Coney Barrett speaks and gestures into a mic during the third day of her Senate confirmation hearing.

How would a Justice Amy Coney Barrett rule on the environment?

Environment

Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett is a conservative who tends to interpret the law narrowly, which could spell trouble for environmental laws intended to address climate change.

Kavanaugh 2006

What would a Justice Kavanaugh mean for the environment?

Politics
US Supreme Court nominee judge Brett Kavanaugh is shown looking down at a microphone.

What a Justice Kavanaugh could mean for climate change

Environment
Juliana v US kids

Circuit court declines to halt climate case brought by youth plaintiffs

Justice
The Polar jet stream carries weather systems around the northern hemisphere. It's powered by the temperature differential between the Arctic and areas farther south, but new research finds that it's being disrupted as rapid warming in the Arctic reduces t

Here’s a new climate change reality that Trump’s new policies ignore

Global Politics
President Trump shakes hands with a coal miner

Two US coal miners, two very different perspectives on the future of coal

Environment

Trump surrounded himself with coal miners when he signed his energy executive order, a very public signal that he was making good on a campaign promise to end the “war on coal.” But not all miners agree on the future of their industry.

Scott Pruitt

How do you run a government agency you have spent so much time suing?

Environment

Scott Pruitt, former Oklahoma attorney general and President Trump’s choice for Environmental Protection Agency administrator, has brought multiple lawsuits against the agency, some of which are still pending.

Trump and Gorsuch

How might a Justice Gorsuch rule on environmental cases before the Supreme Court?

Justice

Appellate Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s pick for the US Supreme Court, has not presided over many environmental cases. But his well-written, very conservative court opinions provide insight into what his appointment could mean for law in this area.

EXIM Bank fossil fuels

Obama’s hidden, and surprising, fossil fuel legacy

Environment

The US federal Export-Import Bank finances overseas projects to help sell American goods. A new investigation has found that the bank gave coal, gas and oil projects nearly $34 billion worth of loans and guarantees during President Obama’s tenure.

Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma (c) at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Pruitt, who Donald Trump has nominated to run the Environmental Protection Agency, is a fierce critic of the EPA in general and its efforts to cut c

With Trump’s EPA pick, the prospects for stopping dangerous global warming just got a lot cooler

Environment

A fox in the hen house? With Donald Trump’s selection of Scott Pruitt to run the EPA, rejection of the reality of climate change could become official US policy.