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.

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.

As she canvassed for Zohran Mamdani in New York City on Tuesday last week, Batul Hassan should have been elated. Her mayoral candidate—a 33-year-old state assemblymember—was surging in the polls and would within hours soundly defeat Andrew Cuomo on first preference votes in the Democratic primary election.

An international coalition for phasing out fossil fuels says it told the government after the election it would have to quit the group if it re-started looking for new oil and gas, contradicting what the climate change minister told the media.

The July 2024 general election saw a major shift in the UK’s approach to tackling climate change. The incoming Labour government made ambitious pledges to cut emissions and switch to green energy, with a target of “clean power” by 2030 and support for on and offshore wind.

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Green Jobs PAC, which helped defeat an initiative that would've repealed Washington's climate law, failed to disclose donors until after the November election.

Aduthurai, has reaffirmed the potential of non-puddled machine transplanting (NPMTR) as a climate-smart, cost-efficient alternative to conventional puddled rice cultivation — reducing water, fuel, energy,

Gov. JB Pritzker announced his running mate today for his re-election campaign, former Deputy Governor Christian Mitchell. Mitchell will serve as Lieutenant Governor, following current Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton's move to run for U.S. Senate, if Pritzker wins re-election.

Tasmania is back at the polls By Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP, Leader of the Tasmanian Greens    After little more than a year, Tasmania is back at the polls.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s tight-lipped approach to climate change is causing some environmental groups to question his leadership, while others say it’s too early to judge the new PM whom they say has room to live up to election pledges addressing Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions.

A political committee that helped defeat last year’s ballot measure to repeal a Washington climate law was fined $20,000 on Thursday for not disclosing how it spent $1 million until after the election.