↑ Global Warming In Which I Try Valiantly to Cheer You Up - OK, 2025 wasn’t the best year ever. But we’re arguably still in the best decade in the history of humanity.Downpours Ease in Southern California, but Flood Risks Remain - Another wave of rain was hitting the Los Angeles area on Friday, adding to the record-setting precipitation over Christmas.Trump Tosses Lifelines to the Struggling Coal Industry - The Energy Department ordered two coal-burning power plants to remain open, and the Environmental Protection Agency gave utilities more time to tackle toxic coal ash.The Pentagon and A.I. Giants Have a Weakness. Both Need China’s Batteries, Badly. - As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine, and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, China’s battery dominance is raising alarms far beyond the auto industry.National Center for Atmospheric Research to Be Dismantled, Trump Administration Says - Russell Vought, the White House budget director, called the laboratory a source of “climate alarmism.”Bessent Accelerates Regulation Overhaul to Jumpstart Growth - The Treasury Secretary unveiled changes to the Financial Stability Oversight Council to ease “overregulation.”U.S. Helped to Weaken Report at U.N. Environment Talks, Participants Say - American officials joined Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran in objecting to language on fossils fuels, biodiversity and plastics in a report that was three years in the making.Starting With Formaldehyde, Trump Administration Reassesses Chemical Risks - A draft memo from the E.P.A. assumes a safe threshold exists for formaldehyde, upending earlier findings that there is no safe level of exposure to the carcinogen.EPA eliminates mention of fossil fuels in website on warming's causes. Scientists call it misleading - The Environmental Protection Agency has removed any mention of fossil fuels — the main driver of global warming — from its popular online page explaining the causes of climate change. Now it only mentions natural phenomena, even though sciTrump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy - The president said he would weaken Biden-era mileage standards, which were designed to increase electric-vehicle sales, calling them a “scam.”