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A plan to extend California's signature climate initiative for another decade is scheduled to go before legislative committees on July 13, 2017, despite opposition from some environmental advocates.

Volvo will begin producing electric motors on all its cars from 2019, becoming the first traditional automaker to forgo the combustion engine altogether.

U.S. allies around the world sounded alarms on Wednesday, May 31, 2017, as President Donald Trump seemed close to pulling the United States out of the landmark Paris climate accord.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made an impassioned appeal on May 30, 2017 for the world to intensify action to combat climate change and implement the Paris Agreement to limit carbon emissions.

The White House has postponed a May 9, 2017, meeting to discuss whether the U.S. should withdraw from the landmark international climate deal struck in Paris under the Obama administration.

At the Trump administration's request, a federal appeals court agreed on Friday, April 24, 2017, to postpone a ruling on lawsuits challenging Obama-era restrictions on carbon emissions.

New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg urged world leaders not to follow President Donald Trump's lead on climate change.

Both the government and the media have their work cut out for them, says Canadian star environmentalist David Suzuki.

In a win for environmentalists, a California appeals court upheld a key part of the state's landmark climate change effort.

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on March 28 that will suspend, rescind, or flag for review measures that were part of former President Barack Obama's plan to curb global warming.

Kerry Emanuel, professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Thursday that "Scott Pruitt is just plain wrong on this."

What if carbon dioxide emissions could be transformed from a liability into an asset?

Prime Minister Trudeau has two major oil pipeline expansions, insisting all the while that the new fossil fuel infrastructure fits within his government's plan to reduce emissions.

There's no going back from the current levels of heat trapping gases in the atmosphere, say scientists — the sky is literally falling.

A new report shows British Columbia's carbon emissions are rising, but the government insists that accusations it has trailed on climate action are "false."