The sprawling event launched Sunday. Climate Week includes over 600 events, seminars, workshops and talks in addition to plentiful protests.

The first time Donald Trump became president, New York and other progressive states had a sacred task before the world: to show that strong measures to address climate change could move forward, ev… ...

Donald Trump is stress testing New York’s climate goals. The Empire State was already struggling to meet its ambitious climate targets before Trump returned to the White House in January.

The sprawling event launched Sunday. Climate Week includes over 600 events, seminars, workshops and talks in addition to plentiful protests.

Its new extraterritorial climate levy will hit workers across the U.S. for fossil-fuel production.

Zohran Mamdani has not made climate change central to his upstart campaign to become New York City’s first democratic socialist mayor.

After years of halting progress, New York Governor Kathy Hochul finally signed the state’s climate superfund into law in the waning hours of 2024. The landmark legislation follows the ...

The law would raise $3 billion annually from major carbon polluters, requiring them to pay for climate damage based on their emissions.

This week marks 10 years since the People’s Climate March, then the largest climate march in history. Hundreds of thousands of people, led by Indigenous and environmental justice groups most ...

Today Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Climate Change Superfund Act into law, making New York the second state in the nation to require fossil fuel companies to pay for climate damages. The law will ...

New York is poised to charge large fossil fuel companies a massive $75 billion over the next 25 years in an effort to curb the effects of climate change under a new law.

The first goal of New York State's ambitious climate plan is getting 70% of energy from renewable sources by 2030.