Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee demanded over 60 companies provide answers on their involvement with leftist climate organizations.

The lawmakers wrote that financial institutions are colluding with climate activists through initiatives like the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and Net Zero Asset Managers .

They also asked the companies if their involvement had any influence on their company policies and asset management.

President Joe Biden signed a bill that will protect from liability good Samaritans who want to remediate pollution from abandoned mines.

Bob Greene : Federal agencies estimate that there could be half a million abandoned hard rock mines across the Western U.S. Greene : The new program will unshackle private groups who have to help repair the environmental damage of past past past.

Greene: It will make it possible for organizations that had nothing to do with the causes of pollution to make rivers and streams cleaner.

Montana 's high court ruled that the state constitution protects residents against climate change.

Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discuss the case on this week 's bonus episode of Amicus Plus .

Stern: The Montana Constitution provides broader access to the state’s courts than the U.S. Constitution provides to federal courts.

Lithwick, Stern: It's laying the groundwork to limit permits that exacerbate climate change..

Montana delegates sought strongest, most all-encompassing environmental protections in the nation.

Their protections were designed to be, as the court put it, “anticipatory and preventative” for both “present and future generations.

Montana is n’t alone here: Hawaii also has a state constitutional provision that guarantees the right to a clean and healthful environment.

In 25 years ’, time, due to projected population growth, the UK is going to need almost five billion litres additional litres of water a day.

This equates to two million wheelie bins worth of water each day , on top of what UK residents already use.

Running simultaneously to this ongoing growth in demand are the concurrent and interlinked threats of climate change and extreme weather.

On current path, the world will exceed 1.5C of warming, and could reach a rise of 2.6-3.1C by the end of the century .

For humanity, it is the difference between survival and extinction.

Extreme weather can account for 9.4% of all deaths across the globe between 2000 and 2019 .

Jeremy Corbyn is an independent MP for Islington North and was leader of the Labour party from 2015 to 2020 .

While marginalised communities are under attack, climate doomism is not an option.

As long as there is life on this Earth , there will always be a reason to defend our shared humanity.

After the Napoleonic Wars , Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz wrote his seminal treatise, On War.

Antoine-Herni Jomini , Clausewitz ’s rival, gained prominence as the foremost European military theorist with his treatise Summary of the Art of War .

President Trump faces a Herculean task to right the economy.

The Democrats will fight savagely to stop him from achieving these goals, writes Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer : To claim that tariffs are un-American is ignorant. Tariffs are as American as apple pie. No one knows what tariffs if any will be imposed, or on whom.

The Department of Government Efficiency ( DOGE ) has made a promise: It will go after regulations that slow growth, obstruct innovators and cost American households thousands of dollars each year .

The burden of excessive regulation is hard to measure, but it's often staggering.

The coming reforms should prioritize inserting sunset clauses on rules as they become outdated, streamlining compliance processes, and focusing on outcomes.

Staffers with the EPA and Department of Energy published an open letter demanding that the EPA end collaboration with Israel on energy and environmental partnerships.

The agency exchanges information with Israel and cooperates with them on workshops, research projects, and sharing research personnel.

Time is running out for the Biden administration to honor its $50 million grant to the Climate Justice Alliance .

Biden appears ready to sign the NDAA , despite objections from advocates and some Democrats about an insidious anti-trans rider.

Everyone from janitors to the Geek Squad could be forced to help the NSA spy — and Democrats barely put up a fight.

Trump wants a bloodbath for federal employees, but government workers aren't the only ones who will suffer.

On December 18 , the Biden administration approved two waivers for California ’s Advanced Clean Cars II Regulations.

In essence, they allow California to ban the sales of all new gasoline-powered automobiles by 2035 .

It is practically assured that President-elect Donald Trump will reverse them as soon as he enters the Oval Office .

Sen. Richard Blumenthal , D-Conn. , urged the Environmental Protection Agency to issue a final report on the health risks of formaldehyde that is “science-based” and “as strong as possible” A recent ProPublica investigation found that the draft version of the report used unusual techniques to underestimate the risk posed by formaldehyde.