After halting federal attempts to combat global warming, President Trump is now targeting efforts by states to reduce greenhouse gases, setting up a legal clash.
President Trump’s executive order appeared to be directed at state measures that limit use of fossil fuels or hold fossil fuel companies liable for environmental damage.
The cuts included funding for a collaborative program between NOAA and Princeton University. One of the program’s meteorologists, Syukuro Manabe, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2021.
The moves include loosening environmental rules, but it is unclear how much they can help reverse the sharp decline in coal power over the last two decades.
The already battered spirits industry will see its supply squeezed if tariffs raise import costs and other countries’ retaliation closes off export markets.
The metro region’s housing shortage is acute. But by 2040, dozens of neighborhoods and suburbs are likely to have lost thousands of homes to floods, a new report found.
Some 100,000 New Yorkers currently live in low-lying coastal areas affected by routine flooding. About half of them reside in the neighborhoods surrounding Jamaica Bay.
China is the third-biggest buyer of U.S. agricultural products. Now that it has punched back with tariffs on American goods, farmers can expect to feel the pain.
The e-commerce giant put in a last-minute offer for the popular video app, according to three people familiar with the talks. TikTok faces a Saturday deadline to change its ownership structure.
President Trump’s approach to tariffs has unsettled many corporate leaders who believed he would use the levies as a negotiating tool. As it turns out, he sees them as an end in themselves.
The World Anti-Doping Agency will report to its board that federal officials questioned one of its U.S. employees last month in the inquiry into the agency’s handling of positive tests by Chinese athletes.
Trade wars during President Trump’s first term slashed billions of dollars in U.S. agricultural exports. Farmers and trade groups expect an even bigger hit this time.
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