Vice President Kamala Harris has spent almost $4 million on private jet flights since July despite calling for people to be "practical" as it relates to climate change.

Kevin D. Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, which published a policy blueprint for the next Republican administration known as Project 2025, on Wednesday dismissed the overwhelming scientific consensus that humans were warming the planet.

While climate change is not the top issue for most voters, research out of the University of Colorado Boulder finds it could be a significant factor in the race.

Research shows most Americans think global warming will hurt future generations and that Congress should do more about it.

Laying out her economic agenda this week, Vice President Harris backed increasing domestic minerals production and creating a minerals stockpile. A press release from her campaign said that it would invoke war-time authority under the Defense Production Act to build stronger mineral supply chains and reduce dependence on China.

Countries have a chance to use this week's U.N. meetings in New York to resolve big differences over boosting the world's annual goal for climate finance, but uncertainty over the U.S. election could jeopardize progress ahead of the next U.

In Pennsylvania, Democrats are pinning their hopes on a former TV anchor to unseat Rep. Scott Perry, a hard-line conservative.

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Roberts, who penned the forward to Project 2025, seemed an unlikely guest, but as he put it, “I’ll go anywhere to talk about how the climate agenda is ending the American Dream.” He seized the speaking opportunity to dismiss climate science and argue that it was the climate agenda—not climate change itself—that should most concern people.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan on Wednesday afternoon highlighted the Biden administration’s work to combat climate change and promote environmental justice even as he sounded an urgent note for further action. America “needs a strong EPA,” Regan said in a brief keynote address at the World Climate Summit in New York City.

New polling research from Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation explores Gen Z's experience of water issues and climate change and who they think is responsible.

Clean-energy investment wave puts US on cusp of change, but Harris is downplaying it in her presidential campaign with eye on Pennsylvania.