Mayors, Sidestepping Trump, Vow to Fill Void on Climate Change

By LIZETTE ALVAREZ June 26, 2017 MIAMI BEACH — Meeting in a city confronted daily with the issues of rising seas and climate change, the United States Conference of Mayors approved resolutions on Monday to urge the federal government to rejoin the...

White House Memo: 16 Years Later, Bush’s Climate Pact Exit Holds Lessons for Trump

White House Memo By PETER BAKER June 4, 2017 WASHINGTON — The new president decided that the international climate change agreement negotiated by his predecessor was a job killer that sacrificed American sovereignty. So he pulled the United States out...

How G.O.P. Leaders Came to View Climate Change as Fake Science

By CORAL DAVENPORT and ERIC LIPTON June 3, 2017 WASHINGTON — The campaign ad appeared during the presidential contest of 2008. Rapid-fire images of belching smokestacks and melting ice sheets were followed by a soothing narrator who praised a...

Economic Trends: Economic Fallout of Climate Move? It Depends on How We Value Time

Economic Trends By NEIL IRWIN June 2, 2017 President Trump’s decision to abandon the Paris climate accord — and his broader unwillingness to fight climate change — will have broad economic consequences. Exactly what those consequences will...

California Engages World, and Fights Washington, on Climate Change

By CORAL DAVENPORT and ADAM NAGOURNEY May 23, 2017 LOS ANGELES — The environmental ministers of Canada and Mexico went to San Francisco last month to sign a global pact — drafted largely by California — to lower planet-warming...