The official winner of the city’s Democratic mayoral primary has a record of fighting polluting natural gas infrastructure ...

The nation's largest city has an ambitious plan to cut emissions. Mayoral frontrunners Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani could ...

New York’s climate reporting bills were originally sent to the Senate’s Environmental Conservation Committee and passed unanimously. That is as far as they got.

It is the second year in a row that a heat wave has hit the New York City region earlier than usual, as global warming is projected to worsen heat waves and make them more frequent, climate experts ...

In recent debates, however, climate change has been overshadowed by New York’s affordability and quality of life. This, activists say, elides the scale of the problems the city faces.

A proposal in the state Legislature that would require a steep drop in non-recyclable packaging faces fierce opposition from businesses that would have to meet new package and recycling demands.

Local lawmakers admitted that “there’s going to be a lot of finger-pointing” over what went wrong before the devastating ...

A version of this article appears in print on June 13, 2025, Section A, Page 16 of the New York edition with the headline: E.P.A. Cuts Biden’s Caps On Climate and Pollution Imposed on Power Plants.

With Utah’s dry climate and extreme weather, Utah faces many of the same wildfire threats as California in January. Could Utah be next?

In New York, this week’s air quality issues are driven by a combination of smoke filtering across the eastern U.S. and steamy temperatures (a high of 89 degrees is expected for the city ...

Growing up as an Iranian American, you are a constant pawn in someone else’s propaganda. Right now, our leaders act like the ...