Rick Scott edged slightly away from his long-held stance of minimizing the impact of climate change. But what it means to Floridians still reeling from the impact of Hurricane Helene is almost anyone’s guess.

The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene has brought climate change to the forefront of the presidential campaign

The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene has brought climate change to the forefront of the presidential campaigns

Hurricane Helene has destroyed parts of inland cities in the eastern U.S. Now will climate change be an issue in the presidential campaign?

Vice presidential hopefuls Tim Walz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, and J.D. Vance, the junior Republican senator from Ohio, faced off Tuesday night in New York. It was the first time the two men have debated,

Nations will press forward without the United States if they must, according to climate negotiators who gathered in New York last week during the United Nations General Assembly. But the first Trump presidency was a setback in the climate fight, and a repeat would slow things down at a critical point when scientists say efforts need to speed up.

After a decade of failed attempts to charge polluters for emitting carbon dioxide, Washington state’s landmark cap-and-trade program finally started up last year, raising billions of dollars for electric school buses,

Vance dismissed climate change as "weird science," skeptically characterizing the scientific consensus about burning fossil fuels as "this idea that carbon emissions drive all the climate change." Top climate scientists were unimpressed with Vance's posturing.

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Counties in western North Carolina and eastern Georgia were hit particularly hard, and are largely Republican. The devastation there has the potential to blunt turnout for former President Donald Trump, who in 2020 notched wins in the North Carolina and Georgia counties with disaster declarations post-Helene.

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) expressed skepticism about the scientific consensus behind climate change in response to a question during Tuesday’s debate. “One

A reader implores voters to cast ballots against the climate deniers on the 2024 ballot, starting with Donald Trump and Rick Scott.