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The article reports on the plan by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to freeze antipollution and fuel-efficiency standards for automobiles. The proposed rules would weaken former President Barack Obama's policies aimed at preventing global warming, as well as challenge the right of states to set their own, more stringent pollution standards. The government claims the proposal would give consumers greater access to safer, more affordable vehicles while protecting the environment.

The article reports that the U.S. courts keep ruling that the U.S. President Donald Trump administration is violating federal law as the administration attempts to deregulate former U.S. President Barack Obama's environmental legacy. Topics include the court decision on the move by the U.S. Department of Interior to delay compliance with rules curbing flaring, how environmentalists see Trump's legal positions, and the public implications of the rules at the center of the legal challenges.

The article discusses the intention of the U.S. president Donald Trump to revise former president Barack Obama's environmental policies to restrain global warming. It is stated that Trump has decided to cut off the budget for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It is said that the revisions will make it almost impossible to reach the objective set by Obama to reduce the gas emissions.

The article reports on festive unveiling President Barack Obama Boulevard and mentions that the energy and environmental policies of president Donald Trump hastens collapse of handiwork.

The article looks at the international conference on climate change in Paris, France, focusing on the role India may play in the conference in terms of whether developed and developing countries will be able to come to an agreement on carbon dioxide mitigation goals. Topics include the relationship between U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the energy and economic development needs of developing countries.

The article discusses the U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to reject a request to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, including the impact that Obama's perspective on reducing climate change played in this decision, the environmental aspects of the pipeline and U.S. environmental policy.

The article reports that Chinese President Xi Jinping will create a so-called cap-and-trade emissions trading plan for China. Under the plan, China will agree to reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants. The article also discusses items that U.S. President Obama and President Xi Jinping plan to talk about at a summit meeting taking place during September 2015 in Washington, D.C. The issues to be discussed include cyber security and military tensions in the South China sea.

The article discusses the climate change mitigation plan of U.S. President Barack Obama to be released on August 10, 2015. Topics addressed include commentary on the strictness and aggressiveness of the environmental regulations to be proposed, an overview of several particular measures addressing the energy resource industries, and discussion of Obama's motivations for the initiative in regard to his political legacy.

The article looks at reports that the U.S. Interior Department has decided in favor of allowing petroleum company Shell to drill for oil in the Chukchi Sea located in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Alaska. Topics include opposition by environmentalists to the decision over concerns such as the impact of any oil spill and the overall environmental policies of U.S. President Barack Obama.

The article covers comments made by U.S. President Barack Obama at the United Nations Climate Summit in which he encouraged the Chinese government to increase efforts in reducing the country's greenhouse-gas emissions. It notes that the absence of Chinese President Xi Jingping at the summit suggests China is unlikely to agree to an international treaty on global climate proposed by the U.S.

The article discusses the U.S. government's release of its National Climate Assessment report in May of 2014, focusing on the report's findings that the effects of climate change are already being felt in the U.S. Topics addressed include the impact of warmer temperatures, increased instances of flood and drought, and extreme storms; U.S. President Barack Obama's reaction to the report; and potential legislative measures to prevent greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change.

The article reports on the difficulty of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a regulation in the U.S. that would curb climate change during a marathon of meetings and drafting sessions in 2014. Particular focus is given to the order by President Barack Obama to the EPA to release by June 1 the draft of a regulation that will establish a national standard for carbon pollution. The complication in writing the new rule in terms of legality is discussed.

The article discusses the agreements reached between U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping during Jinping's June 2013 visit to the U.S. on a range of issues including environmental benchmarks to reduce hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) to reduce global warming and the denuclearization of North Korea. Topics include lack of U.S.-China cooperation on electronic espionage and computer hacking, and discussions on China's currency policies.

The article discusses the political circumstances surrounding a proposed Keystone oil pipeline that would connect Canadian oil sands to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico region. According to the article, the U.S. president Barack Obama will likely upset environmentalists that supported his candidacy if he approves the pipeline but could hinder U.S. relations with Canada if he does not approve it.

The author focuses on the Clean Power Plan announced by U.S. President Barack Obama to reduce carbon emission from power companies in the country.

The author discusses the importance and benefits of the Clean Power Plan announced by U.S. President Barack Obama to address climate change in the U.S.

The article reports on the move of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 29, 2015, blocking the environmental initiative of President Obama, aiming to limit emissions of mercury and toxic pollutants from coal-fired power plants under the Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.).

The article reports that the U.S. President Barack Obama has announced his scheduled speech in which he will reveal his second-term climate plan.

The article presents the author's perspectives on the State of the Union speech of U.S. President Barack Obama, in which he observes that the U.S., as both world leader and major polluter, has a responsibility to help shield the international community from droughts, floods and rising sea levels.

Elisabeth Rosenthal is a reporter and blogger on environmental issues for The New York Times. IN 2008, both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president, Barack Obama and John McCain, warned about man-made global warming and supported legislation to curb emissions. After he was elected, President Obama promised ''a new chapter in America's leadership on climate change,'' and arrived cavalry-like at the 2009 United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen to broker a global pact. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- Five health and environmental groups sued the Obama administration on Tuesday over its rejection of a proposed stricter new standard for ozone pollution, saying the decision was driven by politics and ignored public health concerns. The groups said that President Obama's refusal to adopt the new standard was illegal and left in place an inadequate air quality rule from the Bush administration. Near the end of his presidency, George W. Bush overruled the Environmental Protection Agency's scientific advisory panel and set the permissible ozone exposure at 75 parts per billion. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama's decision not to proceed with stronger air-quality standards governing ozone is a setback for public health and the environment and a victory for industry and its Republican friends in Congress. In a terse, three-paragraph statement Friday morning, the president said he did not want to burden industry with new rules at a time of great economic uncertainty, and he pledged to revisit the issue in two years. But since the proposed rules would not have begun to bite for several years, his decision seemed driven more than anything else by politics and his own re-election campaign. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ACCORDING to numerous reports, the Obama administration has advanced a federal fuel efficiency fleet average standard of 56.2 m.p.g. for 2025. But while an official number from the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is not expected until September, the reported standard has prompted intense jockeying among automakers and environmental groups and has again put a focus on California. In 2009, the state tabled its clean-car mandates to adopt a fleet-average standard set by the federal government for 2012-16. That standard called for a gradual strengthening of Corporate Average Fuel Economy, known as CAFE, that would culminate in a 35.5 m.p.g. fleet-wide requirement in 2016. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday rejected efforts to block the Environmental Protection Agency's program to regulate greenhouse gases, defeating four bills that would have limited the agency's attempts to address global warming. The Senate voted as the House was debating a measure that would also halt the regulations by repealing the agency's scientific finding that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases are endangering human health and the environment. That bill is expected to pass the House on Thursday. President Obama has vowed to veto any such measure if it should reach his desk. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Between them, the Obama administration and the federal courts have reversed most of the Bush administration's wrongheaded environmental regulations. But a few bad rules linger on the books, among them an inadequate health standard governing harmful ozone, which most people call smog. Mr. Obama's Environmental Protection Agency is now proposing to get rid of this rule and replace it with a stronger standard. This would result in cleaner air and better health for millions of Americans. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Stepping into a major environmental dispute, the Obama administration said Thursday that no new timber-cutting or road project could begin in roadless areas of national forests without the permission of the secretary of agriculture. The Agriculture Department, which issued a directive outlining the policy, called it an interim measure meant to bring ''consistency and clarity'' to decisions on a contentious issue that has faced legal challenges since the Clinton administration banned such projects in the roadless areas in 2001. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The nationwide automobile mileage and emissions standards announced by President Obama on Tuesday represent a huge step forward in the effort to limit greenhouse gases and reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. They also represent a departure from the Bush administration's indifference on these issues and an important down payment on Mr. Obama's pledge to fashion an aggressive and imaginative energy policy. The standards, forged after weeks of negotiations orchestrated by Carol Browner, the White House coordinator on energy and environmental matters, may also mark the end of decades of wearying, unproductive legal and political combat between the automobile industry and environmentalists. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WITH its announcement last week that global warming is a threat to public health, the Obama administration has made clear that it plans to cut greenhouse gases substantially. This week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee began its own effort to deal with warming, but Congress's path to legislation is long and uncertain. President Obama can get started without waiting for Congress by taking these three steps: First, he can tighten the Department of Energy's efficiency standards for consumer appliances -- everything from lamps to refrigerators to vending machines. During President Obama's first term, 20 of these standards are up for revision, and if properly improved, they could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 70 million tons annually by 2020. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Obama administration officials said Wednesday that an ambitious energy and climate-change proposal sponsored by House Democrats could help create jobs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they stopped short of endorsing it. Steven Chu, the secretary of energy, and Lisa P. Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, told a House committee considering the measure that they believed it could help accomplish President Obama's goals of moderating climate change, spurring clean-energy technology and reducing dependence on foreign oil. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Obama administration is seeking new limits on airborne pollution from cement plants, including the first standards for mercury from older kilns. The Environmental Protection Agency estimated that the rules would reduce the plants' mercury emissions at least 81 percent. The agency also predicts a 94 percent reduction in their emissions of hydrochloric acid, which would be regulated for the first time. The rules would also lead to steep cuts in hydrocarbons, soot and sulfur dioxide. Environmentalists have battled the E.P.A. in court for a decade, accusing it of failing to limit cement plant emissions as required by the Clean Air Act. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama's rescue plan for the automotive industry has given the presidential seal of approval to a little-noticed movement in Congress to clear the roads of gas-guzzling clunkers and replace them with more fuel-efficient cars. It's an excellent idea, with clear benefits for the environment and -- Mr. Obama hopes -- beleaguered carmakers. But there's a right and wrong way to do it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In his first weeks in office, President Obama has dismantled many environmental policies set by the Bush administration. But in some areas, he will be building on the work of his predecessor, rather than taking it apart. Mr. Bush was not known for his concern over the environment. In the eight years of his tenure, he opened vast tracts of public lands to drilling, mining and timbering, earning the enmity of many environmentalists. His critics accused him of easing restrictions on polluters, subverting science and dragging his feet on global warming. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WATER A Change in Tone [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AIR New Direction on Pollution [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CLIMATE The Legacy of Kyoto [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It seemed that every chance he got, President Bush ignored or flat out refused to address the problem of climate change. So we were greatly encouraged by President Obama's swift announcement that he is likely to approve California's request to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles -- a request the Bush administration denied. The logical next step would be for Mr. Obama to quickly address the Supreme Court's 2007 decision ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to examine the effects of greenhouse gases and to regulate them if necessary. Mr. Bush dodged that one, too. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama directed federal regulators on Monday to move swiftly on an application by California and 13 other states to set strict limits on greenhouse gases from cars and trucks. He also ordered the Transportation Department to begin drawing up rules imposing higher fuel-economy standards on cars and light trucks. The directives make good on an Obama campaign pledge and signal a sharp reversal of Bush administration policy. Moving quickly on tailpipe emissions and on mileage rules are emphatic actions Mr. Obama could take to quickly put his stamp on environmental policy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama is moving quickly to act on the environmental promises that were a centerpiece of his campaign. But tackling global warming will be far more difficult -- and more costly -- than the new emissions standards for automobiles he ordered with the stroke of a pen on Monday. Already, the Congressional Democrats Mr. Obama will need to carry out his mandate are feuding with one another. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A new poll suggests that Americans, preoccupied with the economy, are less worried about rising global temperatures than they were a year ago but remain concerned with solving the nation's energy problems. The findings are somewhat at odds with President Obama, who has put a high priority on staving off global warming and vowed Tuesday in his Inaugural Address to ''roll back the specter of a warming planet.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In his selection of four top scientific advisers, President-elect Barack Obama has signaled what are likely to be significant changes in policies governing global warming, ocean protections and stem cell research. ''It's time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and worked to restore America's place as the world leader in science and technology,'' Mr. Obama said in a radio address on Saturday, when he announced the appointments. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The team President-elect Barack Obama introduced on Monday to carry out his energy and environmental policies faces a host of political, economic, diplomatic and scientific challenges that could impede his plans to address global warming and America's growing dependence on dirty and uncertain sources of energy. Acknowledging that a succession of presidents and Congresses had failed to make much progress on the issues, Mr. Obama vowed to press ahead despite the faltering economy and suggested that he would invest his political capital in trying to break logjams. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The League of Conservation Voters, starved for good news after eight years of the Bush administration's environmental policies, has hailed President-elect Barack Obama's choices for his top energy and environmental jobs as ''a Green Dream Team.'' Let's hope it is. There is no question what this team must do -- mount a strong offensive on climate change, fashion a more efficient energy system, seek out and invest in next-generation, transformative technologies. These are extraordinarily difficult tasks that will face resistance from industry and many in Congress. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]