Stories by Emily Holden

Children, pregnant people and the elderly are the most at risk from extreme weather and heat—but the impact is already felt across every specialty of medicine

Companies told Scott Pruitt that having a regulation on the books would help them plan for the future

The president's move is galvanizing climate action and energizing states, localities and companies

Republican governors in blue and purple states are confronting a gulf between Trump and voters frustrated with his decision on the Paris accord

Coal, jobs, China, blackouts all misrepresented

The budget blueprint also attempts to shift responsibility for many federal environmental laws to states

Canceling the first-ever standards to reduce emissions from power plants is unlikely to revive the coal industry

The White House wants to slash nearly half the budget of EPA's Office of Research and Development, which does most of agency's science work

In a speech, the agency head mentioned the Clean Power Plan, methane standards and the Waters of the United States rule as targets

Trump could soon issue an executive order directing the EPA to consider the Clean Power Plan illegal and stop any work related to the regulation

President Obama made a last plea for democratic engagement and fact-based debate, including on global warming

Both sides in the fierce legal battle acknowledge that EPA has the early edge

Climate and clean energy jobs are top concerns for Sanders supporters, progressive Democrats, millennials and business leaders

He is for natural gas and oil drilling, yet also for cutting greenhouse gas emissions

Surprisingly, 37 percent already comes from noncarbon power plants, mostly nuclear and hydro

Asheville, N.C., struggles to get past coal-fired power, despite its progressive reputation

Scalia's death has complicated states' political calculus on whether to keep up Clean Power Plan discussions

West Virginia is leading the fight against Obama's Clean Power Plan, but would use markets to comply if forced

New Orleans sees that even modern engineering cannot eliminate flooding risk

The new rule includes panoply of changes to help states trade emissions

Changes to the final rule may assuage many industry and state concerns but the coal industry vows to fight

An electric utility reliant on coal offers support for new greenhouse gas rules in exchange for changes to the plan

Utility companies, environmentalists and state leaders disagree on how to phase in EPA's requirement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

The new U.S.-China deal to address climate change will face political problems