Environment

The greatest loss exacted by the firestorm that tore through my Palisades neighborhood on January 7, 2025, was not the buildings and possessions the flames consumed; it was something far more important.

The Trump administration announced Wednesday it’s taking U.S. taxpayer dollars away from 66 globalist organizations, nearly half of them affiliated with the United Nations and all of which are identified as “contrary to the interests of the United States.”

One year ago, on the night of January 7, 2025, a devastating windstorm raged across the Los Angeles area, providing fuel to the most destructive wildfires in the city’s history — the Eaton Fire in Altadena and the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades. Breitbart News visited the site of the Eaton Fire on the eve of its anniversary, where the historic city of Altadena has been reduced to a land of empty lots with little reconstruction.

More than 1,000 stranded passengers spent the night at Amsterdam’s international airport amid snow and ice pummeling parts of Europe.

More than 1,000 fire victims gathered in front of ruins of the historic Pacific Palisades Business Block Building on Wednesday and listened to speakers accuse Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) of “negligence” before, during, and after the firestorm that destroyed their community one year ago.

Far-left climate extremists have claimed responsibility for an arson attack on electrical infrastructure over the weekend that left tens of thousands of people in Berlin without power.

A sign appeared on a float in the iconic Rose Bowl parade New Year’s Day demanding an investigation into the Eaton fire, which burned 9,000 homes and killed 19 in Altadena almost a year ago.

The EPA announced Wednesday that it will move to regulate dozens of applications of 5 widely used phthalate chemicals to reduce environmental and workplace risks.

The Interstate 5 (I-5) Freeway near Castaic, California, was immediately shutdown on Saturday following a gas line explosion that prompted a shelter-in-place order.

A Montana cattle rancher and his wife have made the remarkable decision to donate their $21.6 million ranch in a move that evokes the climactic ending of the runaway TV series Yellowstone.

President Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior announced Monday that it is pausing leases for 5 large-scale offshore wind projects off the East Coast.

A statewide mandate requiring all school buses to be electric by 2035 has resulted in a chilly preview in one New York school district of what’s to come: kids freezing on their rides to and from school.

A snake wrangler was deployed to remove a Burmese python in a Miami-Dade residential neighborhood after a resident out for a walk saw the snake hiding inside a palm next to a home. “Oh gosh, oh my gosh,” an unidentified

“Avatar” director James Cameron is furious that President Donald Trump refuses to accept the doomsaying of global warming alarmists, and is calling Trump a “narcissistic asshole” for not relenting to the climate change mob.

The decades-long Tijuana River sewage crisis is closer to being solved with a historic new agreement between the United States and Mexico, with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials saying the Trump Administration “has not been shy about holding Mexico accountable.”

In the wake of the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, the Halpin family went viral in a video of them singing the “Regina Caeli,” a Catholic hymn to the Virgin Mary in Latin, over the rubble of their historic home; nearly one year later, they returned to the reconstruction site to sing the hymn once again as a priest blessed their home.

In what looks set to be a significant blow to the green agenda, the European Union will scrap its planned ban on the combustion engine, Manfred Weber, a leading lawmaker in Brussels, has claimed.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been one of the primary pushers of Climate Change extremism and alarmism, something his new $300 million yacht proves he can’t be all that worried about.

The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations holds a hearing investigating how environmentalist NGOs abuse taxpayer money to fund their lawfare on Wednesday, December 10.

A group of native Americans are pleased leaders have pushed back against a rule imposed by former President Biden (D) regarding development in Alaska.

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a council representing energy-producing countries in the Middle East, voiced their strong opposition to onerous European Union regulations, stating that these regulations may force GCC companies to withdraw from the European Union market.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY) told Breitbart News that European regulations are hampering the continent’s ability to obtain reliable American energy.

Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder reinvented himself as a creepy advocate for climate alarmism and other leftist causes, recently stated that he would support the deployment of artificial “geoengineering” technologies to reduce global temperatures by reflecting the Sun’s radiation if the climate reached a “tipping point.” Just over a month ago, Gates backtracked on climate alarmism by pushing back on what he calls the “doomsday outlook.”

Just weeks after 50,000 people flew to the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém and agreed to agree on nothing other than the need for more meetings, the U.N. is welcoming upwards of 600 “experts” in France to prepare yet another report on “climate change.”

Venice has imposed a 48-hour ban on Swedish professional protester Greta Thunberg for dumping a green dye into the Italian city’s Grand Canal.

The United Nations COP30 climate summit ended this weekend with the publication of a declaration calling for a mutirão, or “collective effort,” to prevent climate disaster. Few specifics were offered on how exactly to do so.

Nations clinched a deal at the UN’s COP30 climate summit in the Amazon Saturday without a roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels as demanded by the European Union and other countries.

The U.N. climate talks COP30 were hastily evacuated Thursday night due to a fire breaking out inside the venue in Belém, Brazil. Smoke,  flames, and a rise in temperature engulfed the pavilion area as panicked attendees rushed outside to be met by fire crews entering the stricken zone.

T1 Energy CEO Daniel Barcelo highlighted the challenges facing the U.S. solar industry in competing with China, particularly in areas like polysilicon, while expressing confidence that America can be cost-competitive by strengthening domestic manufacturing.

Turkey will welcome next year’s U.N. COP31 climate doomer conference following Australia’s decision Wednesday to fold first on negotiations for hosting responsibilities after spending millions trying to win the bid.

Pope Leo XIV addressed bishops at the United Nations’ COP30 climate alarmism summit on Monday, lamenting that not enough political leaders follow the Paris climate agreement and demanding more “political will” to stop alleged climate change.

Today has officially been declared World Toilet Day by the United Nations (but you knew that already, didn’t you) with “climate change” blamed for making sanitation less available across the planet.

On Tuesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” former Climate Envoy John Kerry responded to Bill Gates’ criticism of some of the language around climate change for being too apocalyptic by saying, “I don’t disagree with the fact that the terminology that has been

A lawsuit filed by over 3,000 Pacific Palisades residents has alleged the state of California failed to properly monitor the embers from a smoldering fire set by an arsonist roughly six days before it grew into the most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles history.