The Clean Air Act was designed to shield Americans from harmful pollution. It was not designed to shield fossil fuel companies from legal accountability or to eviscerate states’ authority to protec…

Half a century of corporate influence set the stage for Trump's attacks on higher education, a new study argues.

Universities in the US have never been free of corporate, military, or political influence. But over the past fifty years, corporate libertarian donor…

Rutgers Climate Week 2026 Sept 20 - Sept 27, 2026 Climate Week Starts September 20th! Inspired by the model of New York City Climate Week, the Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute and Rutgers Office o...

An NPR/Floodlight investigation found that a longtime Republican insider is stoking solar opposition by spreading bad information about health and environmental risks. Her influence is growing.

Online Panel for Rutgers Climate Week The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in its Seventh Assessment Cycle and is under more strain than at almost any point in its history. Stalled...

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Firms manage $7.3tn in assets and could afford to transition away from fossil fuels yet invest in natural gas and coal-fired plants to power datacenters

Republican lawmakers are accusing the groups of acting as “taxpayer-funded law firms.”

Resources for enacting state regulations that effectively mitigate the impacts of data centers on climate and local communities.

Investigation identifies coordinated fossil fuel funding behind most industry-supporting briefs and raises new questions about Justice Samuel Alito's…

Analysis of federal lobbying disclosures shows local governments working with firms also linked to fossil fuel giants

How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution

Trump just put a climate denier in charge of overseeing a key report.

A new report reveals oil and gas companies knew as early as the mid-1970s that methane fueled climate change while launching massive PR campaigns to promote natural gas as clean energy.

Do international market pressures reshape domestic climate politics, or do they merely induce rhetorical adaptation? While climate politics in advanced economies centers on fossil fuels, Brazil pre...

This piece was co-authored with Joana Setzer, Associate Professorial Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and co-published on July 6, 2026. In May 2026, the Supr...

David Stevenson, who led a national campaign against offshore wind power for the Delaware-based Caesar Rodney Institute, is now fighting land-based solar and wind farms and promoting fossil fuels and ...

Robert Levy, executive counsel at the oil company, will retire from his role and join the federal government later this month.

Joana Setzer and Delta Merner discuss their new research examining how courts around the world are approaching corporate climate accountability.

Abstract. Climate obstruction involves intentional actions and efforts to slow or block policies on climate change that are commensurate with the current s

A new book examines “renewable portfolio standard” laws and the ways utilities drove the bus.

Historically (and for the foreseeable future), most public policy action in the United States to combat the global climate crisis has taken place at the stat...

Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.

Our 500th open access book underscores the dedication of our authors and editors in advancing open scholarship to support a more inclusive, collaborative community.

A Masters of Beef Advocacy program teaches ‘scientific sounding’ arguments on cattle’s sustainability in an all-out public relations war

Abstract. A large and growing body of research affirms the severe climate impacts of animal agriculture. Yet rather than undertake structural change, the i

We are pleased to host Dale Jamieson, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at New York University, to speak on climate ethics. For more information on the work that Dr. Jamieson ...