Climate

Tom Swain has had a long career, including chief of staff to a Minnesota governor and mayor of a small Minnesota town. Now 100, he still has energy to burn — and he’s putting it into climate change.
Exxon lobbyist caught on video talks about undermining Biden's climate push
ExxonMobil has condemned the comments of one of its lobbyists secretly recorded by undercover climate activists. The man described pushing lawmakers to weaken President Joe Biden's infrastructure bill.
More deaths reported in intense Northwest heat wave
About a dozen deaths in Washington and Oregon may be tied to an intense heat wave that brought scorching temperatures to the Northwest and has caused one power utility to impose rolling blackouts amid heavy demand.
Unprecedented Northwest heat wave builds, records fall
Portland, Oregon, reached 112 degrees on Sunday, breaking the all-time temperature record of 108 F, which was set just a day earlier. In British Columbia, the village of Lytton reached 115 F — a new all-time record high for Canada.
Portland records hottest day ever amid Pacific Northwest heat wave
Portland, Oregon, had its hottest day ever recorded — reaching 108 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. Seattle reached 101 F, making it the hottest June day on record in that city.
Congress votes to reinstate methane rules loosened by Trump
Congressional Democrats have approved a measure reinstating rules aimed at limiting climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas drilling, a rare effort by Democrats to use the legislative branch to overturn a regulatory rollback under President Donald Trump.