Federal employees pushed back against plans to remove climate data from public view.
The headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, stands in Washington, D.C. on May 7, 2010. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)
The White House previously had put a hold on all grants and contracts at the agency.
Budget experts called the order unwieldy and “nonsensical."
Congress is likely to move quickly.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says hundreds of plant and animal species could be harmed by the border wall.
Former president Barack Obama designated the 1.35 million-acre Bears Ears area as a national monument late last month.
The new administration may revisit environmental regulations adopted not only by the Obama administration but by previous presidents, according to a former Trump aide.
For now, the information lives in archives.
Some called the appointment too little, too late.
Environmental and public health officials hope as many as 200 scientists and public health experts will attend.
After shutting down a former Badlands National Park employee who used its Twitter account for anti-Trump tweets, another protest account popped up. It's tougher, and more popular.
For a few hours on Twitter, Badlands National Park tweeted about climate change even as President Trump gagged the EPA from mentioning the topic.
The move could affect everything from state-led climate research to localized efforts to improve air and water quality to environmental justice projects aimed at helping poor communities.
“Whatever they do in Washington, they can’t change the facts, and these are the facts: The climate is changing. The temperatures are rising — and so are the oceans,” Brown said in his State of the State address.
The president will likely be challenged, but here's how he might prevail.
President Trump issues executive orders to move the pipeline projects forward.
The agency decided to cancel the summit after the election of Donald Trump, raising concerns about government agencies silencing their own work.
It's one of the highest estimates yet to be presented.
This is how change comes to Washington -- detail by bureaucratic detail.
Within minutes of Donald Trump's swearing in, the White House website displayed his energy and environment priorities. Gone was the Obama focus on climate change.
Some green groups have expressed concerns about the nomination.
The crack in the Larsen C ice shelf has grown 17 miles in a little over a month.
New research reaffirms the idea that high temperatures could seriously harm the production of some of the world’s most important food crops, including corn, soybeans and wheat.
The recent changes have been met with criticism from Wisconsin scientists.
The exchange Wednesday was pretty intense, with Pruitt seeking to defend the view that humans may contribute to climate change "in some manner," and Sanders insisting that the science says a great deal more than that.
NASA expressed “greater than 95 percent certainty” in the conclusion.
Zinke's answer seems consistent with how other Trump nominees have addressed this tough question.
Coming just days before the inauguration, the new expenditure is likely to spark controversy.
For now, there are no immediate concerns about the staff’s safety.
The Montana congressman is also likely to face questions on his position on climate change.
If they are successfully torpedoed, Congress could prevent similar rules from being resurrected.
They want the Prime Minister to use the UK’s “special relationship" with the U.S. to urge Trump to accept climate change.
On its way out the door, the Obama administration makes one last defense of its controversial “Waters of the United States” rule.
Intact forest landscapes are “the last portions of the Earth that are not significantly affected by human influence.”
William Happer has argued that the "benefits that more [carbon dioxide] brings from increased agricultural yields and modest warming far outweigh any harm."
Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo don't seem to think climate change will be a big global risk.
More than 90 percent of coral in the Sekisei Lagoon in Okinawa has bleached.
The standards would result in a fleetwide average fuel economy sticker values of 36 miles a gallon by the model year 2025, 10 miles a gallon higher than the current fleet average, EPA said.
A new report recommends major updates to the contested federal metric known as the "social cost of carbon."
Tillerson says climate change is real, but not an "imminent threat."
'It appears that modernization of the Federal coal program is warranted,' the report concludes.
These wetlands in the Congo Basin might store more carbon than the United States emits in 20 years.
The move comes after the Trump transition team sent the department a questionnaire asking for the names of personnel who had attended meetings related to climate change.
For the first time, a bumble bee species has landed on the endangered species list. The rusty patched bumble bee was prolific a generation ago. Now it's in danger of becoming extinct.
Two U.S. plants that capture carbon emissions from coal are becoming operational.
Scientists are debating what will happen once a huge iceberg breaks free from the Larsen C ice shelf.
“The ocean never forgets” -- how greenhouse gas emissions can cause centuries of sea level rise.
Obama argues that embracing clean energy isn't just a moral choice, but an economic one.
The federal polar bear conservation plan says the animal's future in the Arctic is grim unless greenhouse gas emissions are dramatically reduced.
A growing rift is setting the ice shelf up for an imminent loss of nearly 2,000 square miles of ice, scientists say.
