Why climate NGOs are taking the EU commission to court

NGOs are bringing the Commission in front of the European Court of Justice on two separate accounts. The cases are part of a sweeping trend that sees activists bringing governments to court over the respect of environmental pledges.

Republican fight over green subsidies heads toward a boiling point

The partyโ€™s leaders may soon have to decide whether to preserve at least parts of the Democratsโ€™ climate law.

โ€˜We donโ€™t want to sabotage herโ€™: Why green groups are going easy on Kamala Harris

Environmental groups that put Joe Bidenโ€™s climate initiatives under a microscope arenโ€™t giving the Democratic nomineeโ€™s positions the same scrutiny.

How Kamala Harrisโ€™ platform could differ from Joe Bidenโ€™s

Here are some hints about how Harris’ agenda and Biden’s might compare if she ends up taking the oath in January.

Trump embraces Musk and his electric vehicles โ€” but not Bidenโ€™s rules

Trumpโ€™s recent change in tone reflects a softening in rhetoric about EVs on the campaign trail.

Trump vs. Bidenโ€™s historic climate agenda

President Joe Biden may no longer be on the 2024 ballot โ€” but his legacy is. And former President Donald Trump would have multiple tools to thwart his ambitions on energy, infrastructure and climate change.

Washingtonโ€™s most powerful interests donโ€™t know whether to cheer Harris โ€” or dread her

Would she bring continuity with Joe Bidenโ€™s policies? A more centrist vibe? A sharper progressive bite? Industries including tech, energy and pharma want to know.

Von der Leyen threads the climate needle to keep her job

It was a love fest today. The green fights begin tomorrow

Effort sharing: EU countries split on major climate law

The EUโ€™s second major climate law, the effort sharing framework which tasks richer countries with reducing emissions more strongly than poorer ones, is under fire just as the European Commission is on the cusp of enforcing it.

German activists take government to court over climate policy

New law is too weak and has been made harder to enforce, while transport ministry has not taken sufficient action, groups sayGerman climate activists are taking the government to court for โ€œunconstitutionalโ€ climate policy, seeking to build on a landma…

Who won, who lost and who cocked up in the EU election

The far right had a good night. Others not so much.

EU Green Deal? No, thanks: Germanyโ€™s liberals want a weaker โ€˜Yellow Dealโ€™

Germany’s Free Democrats say their backing for the next EU top executive hinges on weakening EU climate laws โ€”ย a clear shot at Ursula von der Leyen.

Bidenโ€™s biggest challenge: How do you even spend $1.6 trillion?

Congress gave Biden a historic sum to green the economy, revive manufacturing and fix crumbling infrastructure. But most of it is unspent.

UKโ€™s climate plan ruled unlawful (again)

Labour slams “clown show” Tory government.

Greens lionized by Europeโ€™s young voters at EU presidential debate

Bas Eickhout gets a lot of love in Maastricht.

German transport minister stirs climate debate with threat of driving bans

A debate on abandoning sector-specific climate targets is heating up in Germany after Transport Minister Volker Wissing from the liberal FDP party warned that he might have to impose car bans on weekends unless the countryโ€™s climate law is reformed.

German minister threatens โ€˜indefinite driving bansโ€™ on weekends

The ruling coalition has been fighting over legislation that sets out binding climate targets.

Polandโ€™s climate surprise pressures EU to pitch ambitious 2040 target

The new Polish government says it is ‘stepping up’ its fight against climate change โ€” a vow that will ripple through Brussels.

Trump who? Republicans in Dubai try to carve out their own climate agenda.

GOP lawmakers came to the U.N. climate summit to promote a vision that champions U.S. fossil fuels and nuclear energy while acknowledging the need to cut carbon. Itโ€™s unclear how much that will matter if the former president regains the White House.

Kamala Harris at climate summit: World must โ€˜fightโ€™ those stalling action

US vice president uses her international platform to polish her climate credentials โ€” but it comes with political peril.ย 

Bidenโ€™s EPA launches crackdown on planet-warming methane

The ruleโ€™s 3 a.m. rollout was timed to coincide with the ongoing UN climate talks in Dubai.

Anti-green backlash hovers over COP climate talks

War, a fossil fuel boom and populist revolts are sapping the optimism from the fight against climate change. And then thereโ€™s Trump.

Oil industry rides into climate summit bigger than ever

Price spikes driven by the war in Ukraine are helping fill the petroleum giantsโ€™ coffers, despite governmentsโ€™ promises of a greener era.

Who wants what out of COP28

Our scorecard of what the most powerful factions of countries will be fighting over at the climate summit โ€” and the obstacles they face.

Slovakiaโ€™s president refuses to back climate change denier as environment minister

Zuzana ฤŒaputovรก’s decision could prevent Robert Fico from attending next week’s EU summit.

Germanyโ€™s Lindner blasts EU over โ€˜enormously dangerousโ€™ green plans

The finance minister warned that a Brussels push to make buildings across the bloc more energy efficient would threaten ‘social peace.’

Europeโ€™s green deal will need broad support to succeed

EU has embarked on no less than an industrial revolution. A revolution that โ€” unlike those of the past โ€” is set against a tight deadline.

EU wonโ€™t โ€˜diluteโ€™ ambition, says new climate chief

Maroลก ล efฤoviฤ says he’ll defend the bloc’s efforts to slash emissions, but he won’t push the envelope.