The central bank has halted hiring to align with a White House directive and pulled back its work on climate change.
Category: Global Warming
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Documentarian Alex Gibney Teams Up With a Google Billionaire
The Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has sold a majority stake in his Jigsaw Productions to the philanthropist Wendy Schmidt.
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Doug Burgum Is Confirmed by Senate as Interior Secretary
The former governor of North Dakota is promoting President Trump’s “energy dominance” agenda and wants more oil, gas and mining on public lands.
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Shell and Equinor Oil and Gas Production Is Blocked at Sites Off British Coast
A court ruling requires the British government to consider the potential climate impact of the oil and gas produced in the North Sea.
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Chevron Wants to Tap Into A.I. Boom by Selling Electricity to Data Centers
The oil company plans to build natural gas power plants that will be directly connected to data centers used by technology companies for artificial intelligence and other services.
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Oil Companies Embrace Trump, but Not ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’
Oil and gas executives welcomed President Trump’s early moves on energy policy, but many said they did not plan to increase production unless prices rose significantly.
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Trump Wants to Unleash Energy, as Long as It’s Not Wind or Solar
Legal experts said the president was testing the boundaries of executive power with aggressive orders designed to stop the country from transitioning to renewable energy.
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Trump’s Executive Order to End E.V. Subsidies Draws Pushback
Automakers and even some Republicans may fight to preserve funds, and environmental activists will likely sue, but some experts said that some changes may not survive legal challenges.
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The Push and Pull of Los Angeles: Beauty and Danger
Somini Sengupta, a Times climate reporter, on the city, its mythology, and a reckoning with disaster.
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Ahead of Trump Presidency, the Fed Quits Global Climate Network
Federal Reserve Bank officials said the decision to leave the network came after the group’s work had “increasingly broadened in scope.”