All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 1 2017 // Scientists are sucking carbon dioxide from the air with giant fans and preparing to release chemicals from a balloon to dim the sun’s rays as part of a climate engineering push to cool the planet.Backers say the...
Jul 28 2017 // Responding to top government officials in 12 oil and gas producing states that threatened to sue over the state’s climate initiatives, California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said: bring it on.In June, Oklahoma...
Jul 28 2017 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has fired off a letter to the 12 oil state attorneys general and one governor from states like Texas and Oklahoma over threats to sue him if he did not stop his Climate Risk...
Jul 27 2017 // Climate change may pose a serious risk to the nation’s electric grid, according to a new report.The report was prepared by Johns Hopkins University with help from Swiss Re. “Lights out: The risks of climate and...
Jul 26 2017 // The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Blue Marble Microinsurance announced they have formed a partnership designed to provide microinsurance for small ranchers in Latin America who use a weather-resilient practice called...
Jul 14 2017 // California Gov. Jerry Brown announced yet another plan Wednesday to keep the United States on track to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the international Paris climate agreement.This time, he’s teaming up with...
Jul 12 2017 // The tension between Washington D.C. and Sacramento seems to have created extra work for some lobbyists.“It’s absolutely palpable,” Paul Yoder, managing director for the California Coalition on...
Jul 6 2017 // Nearly 10 million people living in 5.4 million homes have a high risk from rising sea levels and will be adversely impacted by climate change, according to a new report that takes data from U.S. Census tracts near the...
Jul 6 2017 // Two climate scientists suggest they’ve come closer to resolving a critical debate about how quickly human activity will heat up the planet. The answer isn’t good news.It’s almost universally understood...
Jun 30 2017 // Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said he’s concerned investors aren’t doing enough to assess threats that global warming will have on assets they purchase.The central bank governor who also leads the...
Jun 30 2017 // The fire that killed at least 79 people in a residential tower in London earlier this month has delivered a blow to an often overlooked section of the green industry that’s crucial to delivering energy...
Jun 22 2017 // It’s difficult to decide whether Dave Jones is underdog prize fighter Rocky Balboa or reigning champ Apollo Creed.He’s the insurance commissioner of the most populated state in the nation and that makes him a...
Jun 21 2017 // Brock Long was cleared by the Senate to become President Donald Trump’s emergency-management director Tuesday after gaining the support of one unlikely constituency: environmentalists.While climate advocates panned...
Jun 20 2017 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones responded to challenges to his calls for insurers to disclose their investments in fossil fuels.Oklahoma’s attorney general has sent a letter to Jones threatening legal...
Jun 20 2017 // Oklahoma’s attorney general has sent a letter to California’s insurance commissioner threatening legal action if that state continues with its policy of requiring insurance companies to publicly disclose...
Jun 19 2017 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry, which has been facing rising claims bills for extreme weather events, mostly reacted with silence to President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the country from the...
Jun 8 2017 // You’d think climate change activists now living under a new reality created by a U.S. president making good on his promise to withdraw the nation from the Paris accord on global warming would feel at least a bit...
Jun 6 2017 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry, which has been facing rising claims bills for extreme weather events, mostly reacted with silence to President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the country from the...
Jun 6 2017 // New York’s top cop told a judge that an investigation into Exxon Mobil Corp.’s public statements about climate change uncovered “significant evidence” the oil giant may have misled investors.In a...
Jun 2 2017 // Looking for allies in the fight against climate change, California Gov. Jerry Brown headed to China this week in a push to build foreign support for carbon-cutting efforts that have found resistance in...