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The head of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development praised President Biden this week for the new administration’s environmental priorities.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) plans to make combatting climate change a “whole of Senate approach” for however long Democrats retain the majority.

A joint report released Wednesday by the U.S.-based Global Energy Monitor (GEM) and Helsinki-based Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) found China built over three times as much coal-fired electrical power capacity in 2020 as the rest of the world combined.

John Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate under President Biden’s administration who consistently sounds the alarm on the dangers of climate change, took a private jet to Iceland in 2019 to accept an environmental award.

The United Nations said Tuesday that the humanitarian consequences of the “climate emergency” will be far worse unless “drastic efforts” are made to curb global emissions.

The Paris Agreement, if fully implemented, would lower temperatures around the planet by 0.05 degrees Fahrenheit, stated Bjorn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and author of False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet, on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Steve Pearce, chairman of the New Mexico GOP Party, said Republicans should fight the nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM) to lead the DOI.

Just as Joe Biden started his new job as president, he ended the jobs of thousands of workers connected to the canceled Keystone XL Pipeline.

President Joe Biden’s tenure will likely bring a return to “the failed policies of the Obama administration” abroad, conservative foreign policy experts predicted during a webinar on Wednesday hosted by the Center of Security Policy (CSP) think tank.

Thursday on FNC’s “Your World,” Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) criticized the incoming Biden administration’s approach to the environment, which would cripple the oil and gas industry if fully enacted.

Climate envoy John Kerry said in an interview with the BBC that only nine years remain to solve so-called manmade climate change.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) criticized climate envoy John Kerry Wednesday for suggesting that laid-off workers in the fossil fuels industry can get jobs in clean energy.

Climate Envoy John Kerry reportedly still owns a private jet through a family company, even as he prepares to impose new restrictions on Americans’ use of fossil fuels, according to a report by Fox News on Wednesday evening.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) praised President Joe Biden’s climate actions and addressed criticisms that they’ll hurt jobs by stating that fighting climate change helps create jobs and that “We do not want

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” White House National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy stated that there is a “commonality” between President Joe Biden’s climate executive orders and the Green New Deal, such as both asking how to turn climate

Rep. Conor Lamb (D-PA) said in an interview that banning fracking will help oil-rich western Pennsylvania.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she is “extraordinarily encouraged” by President Joe Biden’s executive orders on climate change and that the orders show “a good-faith openness and relationship” to activists by Biden. Ocasio-Cortez said,

The Western Energy Alliance filed suit on Wednesday challenging President Biden’s executive order to halt drilling leases on federal land.

On Wednesday’s “MSNBC Live,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) praised President Joe Biden’s climate executive actions as “a courageous first step” and said she is “pleased” at the prevalence of the “principles and the values in the Green New Deal” in

Both White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, and special presidential envoy for climate, John Kerry, spoke without sporting masks during Wednesday’s press briefing.

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily” that Democrats can repeal the filibusters if Senate Republicans refuse to act on President Joe Biden’s climate legislation because it is a “planetary emergency.”

Climate Envoy John Kerry and National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy told reporters in the White House briefing room that oil and gas workers who are laid off as a result of President Joe Biden’s new climate policies will find “better” jobs.

John Kerry admitted: “We could go to zero [emissions] tomorrow, and the problem [of climate change] isn’t solved.”

The CEO of the American Exploration and Production Council said in a statement Wednesday that President Joe Biden’s plan to ban drilling leasing on federal land is killing American jobs and emergency independence in an economy struggling from the coronavirus pandemic.

President Joe Biden is expected to announce sweeping policies on Wednesday to address so-called manmade climate change, including putting millions of acres of federal land off-limits for domestic energy production and elevate environmental concerns to a national security issue.

During an interview aired on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that “it might be a good idea for President Biden to call a climate emergency.” Because this would allow him to

John Kerry, United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, on Monay took part in a global virtual climate change summit.

The Vatican has called for a “responsible, unprecedented collective response” to the “momentous challenge” of climate change.

California welcomed rain this weekend — including a storm that brought a dusting of snow to Malibu, near Los Angeles — as the state hoped to emerge from a new drought.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly told Joe Biden that his ascendancy to the White House represented a “moment of hope in a dark time” as the leaders discussed their ‘Build Back Better’ agenda during a phone call on Saturday.

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg said Friday on MSNBC that the Green New Deal introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is “very far from being enough” action on climate.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) questioned Pete Buttigieg, President Joe Biden’s nominee for transportation secretary, on Thursday about the president’s executive order to end the Keystone XL Pipeline as part of what the Biden administration claims is a “climate crisis.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Thursday reignited what has come to be a semi-routine feud with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on social media, fuming over his criticism of President Biden’s decision to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement.

Climate change advocates Chrissy Teigen and NBC’s “The Voice” star John Legend were seen, as the Daily Mail reported, boarding a private jet in California on Tuesday as they headed to D.C. to perform for Joe Biden’s inaugural event.

Marc Morano, founder of Climate Depot and author of the forthcoming Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal Is Even Worse than You Think, warned “climate change” would be used as a pretext for lockdowns as is being done with coronavirus.

Joe Biden’s announcement that he will shut down the Keystone XL pipeline is creating tensions between U.S. and Canadian officials.