Here's a look at some of the new laws taking effect: Many cities and states impose special taxes on hotel stays and vacation ...

The Trump administration moved quickly to dismantle federal climate regulations and is also taking efforts to stop the enforcement of climate state laws, calling them unconstitutional, unenforceable ...

As climate disasters strain state budgets, a growing number of lawmakers want fossil fuel companies to pay for damages caused by their greenhouse gas emissions. Last May, Vermont became the first ...

The Trump administration sued to block two state laws designed to force oil companies to pay the costs of climate change. Several other states are joining the fight, too. By Karen Zraick Vermont made ...

Ms. Reisch and Ms. Gusman are lawyers in the climate and energy program at the Center for International Environmental Law. Ms. Brown is the center’s president and chief executive. The science on ...

The Trump administration's decision to withdraw the United States from the foundational U.N. climate treaty, which the U.S. Senate unanimously adopted more than 30 years ago, may be illegal, according ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – Laws passed in two northeastern states attempting to ding energy companies for years of greenhouse gas emissions are fraught with technical and legal challenges, according to energy ...

The Trump administration is stalling implementation of the Growing Climate Solutions Act, a bipartisan law to help farmers engage in carbon markets. A climate change law once hailed as a bipartisan ...

New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act makes Big Oil share the costs of the climate crisis, and Trump wants to strike it down. We’re fighting back. New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act makes Big ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an attorney who writes about ESG policy, laws, and regulations. In September, the European Law Institute held its annual ...

For over a century, humanity has rampantly burned fossil fuels to power the machinery of modern life, inexorably releasing gases into the atmosphere that are changing the Earth’s climate. The Bulletin ...