NEW YORK, New York, September 21, 2021 (ENS) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres today welcomed important commitments made towards climate action by the world’s two largest economies, the United States and China, as the High Level Debate of the UN General Assembly began in New York. […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, September 3, 2021 (ENS) – At least 66 people across nine U.S. states have died due to Ida in her various phases from Category 4 hurricane when it struck Louisiana on August 29 to tropical depression blowing out into the Atlantic Ocean east of New England on September 2 . […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, August 30, 2021 (ENS) – Precisely 16 years after devastating Hurricane Katrina made landfall, another major hurricane hit southern Louisiana around noon on Sunday. Hurricane Ida came ashore at Port Fourchon with sustained winds of 150 miles (240 km) per hour. […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, August 19, 2021 (ENS) – The Alaska Federal District Court Wednesday vacated the approval of a large oil and gas project known as the Willow Master Development Plan […]
WASHINGTON, DC, August 6, 2021 (ENS) – President Joe Biden leaves no doubt about his administration’s policy on electric vehicles. “America must lead the world on clean and efficient cars and trucks,” he declared in an Executive Order Thursday. “That means bolstering our domestic market by setting a goal that 50 percent of all new passenger cars and light trucks sold in 2030 be zero-emission vehicles […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 19, 2021 (ENS) – Across the entire 16.7 million acres of the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska, full Roadless Rule protections are being restored and there will be an end to large-scale old-growth timber sales… […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 15, 2021 (ENS) – President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel today at the White House launched the U.S.-Germany Climate and Energy Partnership during her farewell visit to the United States ahead of Germany’s September elections, in which she is not running. […]
BERLIN, Germany, July 17, 2021 (ENS) – While Germany’s death toll from pounding rain and severe flooding stood at 67 on July 15, an official update on Saturday, July 17, shows the death toll up to at least 170 people… […]
WASHINGTON, DC, June 30, 2021 (ENS) – Hundreds of Northern California residents living between historic Mt. Shasta and the city of Weed have been evacuated from their homes as two fires burning in Siskiyou County exploded overnight, […]
WASHINGTON, DC, June 30, 2021 (ENS) – President Joe Biden signed into law today a Resolution of Disapproval that invalidates the Trump administration’s 2020 Methane Rescission Rule and reinstates two stricter Obama-era methane-emission rules […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 15, 2021 (ENS) – Environmental concerns, especially about the consequences of climate change, are on the minds of U.S. President Joe Biden and the European leaders he has met with over the past two days […]
FRANKFORT, Kentucky, June 10, 2021 (ENS) – Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, a Democrat, has announced a Better Kentucky Plan that will help the state create 14,500 jobs to deliver clean […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 14, 2021 (ENS) – Scanty vaccine supplies in low and lower-middle income countries cannot cover even the innoculation of health care workers, the head of the World Health Organization, WHO, warned today, […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 28, 2021 (ENS) – President Joe Biden has invited 40 world leaders to participate in a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate he will host on Earth Day April 22 and on the following day April 23, fulfilling a promise he made during his first week in office. The virtual Leaders Summit will be live-streamed for public viewing. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 28, 2021 (ENS) – “Today is Climate Day at the White House, which means that today is Jobs Day at the White House,” President Joe Biden told reporters Wednesday morning. “We’re talking about American innovation, American products, American labor. And we’re talking about the health of our families and cleaner water, cleaner air, and cleaner communities. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 20, 2021 (ENS) – “A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can’t be any more desperate or any more clear,” President Joe Biden declared today in his Inaugural Address on the steps of the Capitol building after he was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 13, 2021 (ENS) – President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on January 20 at noon, has nominated a team of seasoned environmental leaders to fill his Cabinet in positions that will impact the Earth’s unique places, people, and species, now more vulnerable than ever after the Trump administration. Climate will be a top priority of Biden’s core plan for a “clean energy revolution and environmental justice.” […]
WILMINGTON, Delaware, December 15, 2020 (ENS) – The U.S. Electoral College has formally elected the Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and incumbent U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris as president and vice president of the United States. Two of every three eligible citizens, over 159 million people voted, the highest number since 1900. […]
DETROIT, Michigan, November 25, 2020 (ENS) – General Motors CEO Mary Barra said on Monday the company is pulling out of a lawsuit led by the Trump administration against California over the state’s right to set its own fuel economy and emissions regulations. Barra said the company supports President-elect Joe Biden’s plans to expand electrification of cars. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, November 23, 2020 (ENS) – President-elect Joe Biden today announced key members of his foreign policy and national security team including, for the first time, a Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. To fill this new role, Biden has chosen old friend and Senate colleague, former Secretary of State John Kerry. […]
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