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Obama strikes climate change deal with China

Obama, Xi Jinping seek to foster global agreement on climate change

Obama: Climate change 'growing and urgent threat'

President Barack Obama told a United Nations meeting on Tuesday that pollution must be contained to address climate change. Specifically, he called out China, saying that the most populous country on Earth, with the fastest increase in carbon pollution, must join the United States to lead the rest of the world in carbon reduction. "We have a responsibility to lead," Obama said to applause. "That's what big nations have to do." Obama was speaking at the U.N. Climate Summit, a one-day meeting hosted by U.N. Sec

In drought-ravaged California, Obama sounds alarm on climate change

While touring areas of California ravaged by a historic drought, President Obama on Friday sounded an ominous warning and said that even if the federal government takes meaningful action to combat climate change, much of the damage already has been done. “Unless and until we do more to combat carbon pollution that causes climate change, this trend is going to get worse, and the hard truth is even if we do take action on climate change, carbon pollution has built up in our atm

Jay Inslee launches 2020 presidential bid with focus on climate change

Jay Inslee, the Democratic governor of Washington, has announced he is running for president, declaring himself the “only candidate who will make defeating climate change our nation’s number one priority”. A vocal advocate for taking action on climate change, Inslee used his entrance into the race to sound the alarm on what he called “the most urgent challenge of our time”. “We’re the first generation to feel the sting of climate change,” he said in a video announcing his launch. “And we’re the last who can do something about it.”...

Administration issues dire climate change report, amid regulatory push

The Obama administration fueled its push for energy regulations with a massive new report Tuesday, linking climate change to extreme weather across the country and warning of more climate disruption if the nation doesn't change its ways.

Obama Defends Presence at Climate Change Talks While Syria War Rages

President Obama said on Tuesday that the United States was obligated to undertake climate talks in the midst of a war in Syria “because this one trend, climate change, affects all trends.”

White House threat assessment: Climate change as dangerous as terrororism

President Obama’s new national-security strategy ranks combating climate change as a priority alongside more traditional threats such as terrorism, biological emergencies and nuclear weapons in the hands of rogue states. The White House released an outline Friday of Mr. Obama’s updated national-security strategy, the administration’s first revision in five years. Along with confronting terrorist groups such as the Islamic State and working to reverse automatic budget cuts for national defense, the administration cited climate change as a top priority. President Obama

Climate Change Is Already Here, Says Massive Government Report

Climate change is no longer a distant threat but a real and present danger in the United States according to a government report issued Tuesday.

Trump will drop climate change from US National Security Strategy

The Trump administration will drop climate change from a list of global threats in a new National Security Strategy the president is due to unveil on Monday.

Dianne Feinstein's climate change discussion with schoolchildren gets heated

Sen. Dianne Feinstein clashed Friday with a group of children over climate change policy, criticizing their requests that she back the Green New Deal, accusing them of presenting