A brewing spat over the European Union’s plan to tighten its 2030 climate goal is adding to a list of conflicts that the region’s leaders will have to deal with at a meeting next week, threatening to delay the start of an unprecedented green overhaul.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to timely publish updates to California, Nevada, and Arizona’s plans to meet air quality standards violates the Clean Air Act, according to a lawsuit filed in a California federal court.

Nestle SA, the world’s largest food company, said it will invest 3.2 billion Swiss francs ($3.6 billion) over the next five years in an effort to fight climate change.

The Trump administration announced it will sell oil drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Jan. 6 -- an auction that would complicate President-elect Joe Biden’s vow to “permanently protect” the rugged reserve in northeast Alaska.

The U.K. should be fined for noncompliance with an October 2018 European Court of Justice ruling on fuel taxes, the European Commission said Thursday.

Utilities have cut power to more than 100,000 homes and businesses in Southern California to prevent live wires from falling and sparking wildfires as high winds buffet the state.

New York state banned food containers containing a family of chemicals known as PFAS that have been linked to cancer, under legislation signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo late Wednesday night.

Global efforts to reduce wasted energy have faced a major setback in 2020, sidelining a relatively simple way of slashing emissions and hitting climate goals.

A bipartisan deal to authorize a 15-year phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons, greenhouse gases found in refrigeration and air conditioning, could end up in the overall spending package Congress cobbles together to fund the government.

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