Stung by the party’s sweeping losses in November and desperate to win back working-class voters, the Democratic Party is in retreat on climate change. Nowhere is that retrenchment more jarring than in the nation’s most populous state, a longtime bastion of progressive politics on the environment.

The LA fire crisis is more than just a natural disaster. This video unpacks the real story—from climate change and political failures to the harsh truths behind policy inaction and growing risk.

The Democratic party and the climate movement have been “too cautious and polite” and should instead be denouncing the fossil fuel industry’s “huge denial operation,” the US senator Sheldon Whitehouse said.

Heat and other climate impacts like floods and storms affect voters, candidates and poll workers in different ways at different times, and can even tip election results, researchers and officials report.

The Justice Department is looking into whether it can bring criminal charges against election officials the Trump administration believes aren’t doing enough to safeguard their computer systems, The New York Times reports.

New York passed its $254 billion state budget months ago—but a sweeping federal bill may force major changes. What’s suddenly on the chopping block?

Since Donald Trump’s re-election, Wall Street has abandoned public climate alliances and toned down diversity initiatives. But US bankers want Europeans to know that’s not the whole story.

Green Jobs PAC, which helped defeat an initiative that would've repealed Washington's climate law, failed to disclose donors until after the November election.