On the evening of Christmas 1776, Gen. George Washington surprised the King's forces by leading the Continental Army in a ...

The Senate budget proposal opts to keep the Climate Commitment Act for its intended purpose: fighting, mitigating and adapting to climate change.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A long, warm plume of airborne water snaked its way from the subtropical Pacific Ocean toward the U.S. West Coast at the beginning ...

Numerous state and local governments argue oil and gas companies deliberately hid the environmental impacts of fossil fuels.

After much of Washington state saw historic flooding near the end of 2025, weather observers may be wondering how that affected drought conditions. "Did record rainfall end Washington's drought?" the ...

Warming is occurring across most U.S. states, though the pace and type of temperature changes vary widely from region to ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear from oil and gas companies trying to block lawsuits seeking to hold the industry liable for billions of dollars in damage linked to climate change.

Washington state’s push for a rapid switch to electric vehicles is in jeopardy—with its ultimate fate likely to be decided in ...

KUOW Photo/John Ryan Washington state officials have issued a correction after they were caught exaggerating the benefits of state spending to curb climate change. Proceeds from the state’s quarterly ...

The Trump administration revoked the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding, which has served as the legal foundation for regulating ...

The Environmental Protection Agency finishes the repeal of the “endangerment finding,” a landmark legal opinion underpinning policies regulating climate change.

The White House says the Trump administration will revoke a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S.