Climate Energy and Environment

Climate, energy, and environmental policy shape everything from gas prices to how communities prepare for floods and fires. This category explains how government collects climate data, assesses risks, debates the science, and increasingly treats climate change as a security challenge.

Climate Policy, Treaties, and Federal Programs

Explore how climate rules are made and changed, from the EPA process for updating emissions standards to legal fights over whether states can sue oil companies. See how international climate agreements work in practice, including withdrawing from international treaties, the funding impacts of U.S. withdrawal from climate agreements, and why the Paris Agreement was designed to let countries exit easily.

Other explainers follow the federal money behind climate damages and the broader debate over how climate, energy, and environmental policy should balance emissions, reliability, equity, and economic costs.