Vance dismissed climate change as " weird science ," skeptically characterizing the scientific consensus about burning fossil fuels as "this idea that carbon emissions drive all the climate change." Top climate scientists were unimpressed with Vance's posturing.

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) expressed skepticism about the scientific consensus behind climate change in response to a question during Tuesday’s debate. “One

The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene has brought climate change to the forefront of the presidential campaigns

CBS News moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan pegged their question to Helene and pointed to research showing that climate change makes hurricanes “larger, stronger, and more deadly,” as well as polling showing that 7 in 10 Americans favor taking steps to address climate change.

Nations will press forward without the United States if they must, according to climate negotiators who gathered in New York last week during the United Nations General Assembly. But the first Trump presidency was a setback in the climate fight, and a repeat would slow things down at a critical point when scientists say efforts need to speed up.

Curtis founded the Conservative Climate Caucus in 2021 and it has now grown to more than 80 members — all Republican — and five of those people have volunteered to take his place as the shepherd of the cause as he prepares to potentially change jobs and win an election to the U.S. Senate in a seat currently occupied by Sen. Mitt Romney.

Hurricane Helene has destroyed parts of inland cities in the eastern U.S. Now will climate change be an issue in the presidential campaign?

After a decade of failed attempts to charge polluters for emitting carbon dioxide, Washington state’s landmark cap-and-trade program finally started up last year, raising billions of dollars for electric school buses,

They need to accept that the issue is real and to engage in a sustained bipartisan effort to meet the difficult challenge of halting additional global warming.

From Washington to Massachusetts, blue states are rushing to protect their policy priorities from the reach of a potential Trump administration

Kamala Harris’s campaign won’t say how she’ll vote on Proposition 36, which would increase penalties for some crimes, or other California ballot measures.