Pollution

Armed with tech billions, Jan Sramek has dreams of creating a new, affordable, walkable city. If, that is, California lets him.

A week after the tanker crash off the English coast, officials are trying to work out the damage done — and who is going to pick up the bill.

Controversial move to make green investment standards voluntary sparked “huge fight” within the EU executive.

France, Italy and Poland support the move, but others fear it might prompt Donald Trump to retaliate in anger.

From infancy to old age, people in the region are facing health crises.

President Donald Trump has attacked nearly every aspect of the U.S. effort to confront rising temperatures.

Goals on boosting carbon sequestration, the circular economy, organic farming and reducing the EU’s consumption footprint are most at risk.

The new rules mean clothing companies and manufacturers will have to pay a fee to cover the costs of collection and treatment of textile waste. 

The law should list certain chemicals as critical to Europe’s strategic autonomy, copying similar policies for minerals and medicines.

EU countries are using green farm subsidies to reward status quo practices instead of driving real environmental action, NGOs say.

Yet many EU countries continue to seek exemptions to rules that could clean them up, reports point out.

Confidential contracts seen by POLITICO do not tend to support claims that the executive paid green groups to lobby on its behalf.

Tarragona’s beaches are covered with plastic pellets, highlighting a Europe-wide problem that is the focus of EU interinstitutional talks.

Brussels hopes simplifying green compliance rules will boost Europe’s flagging economy. Green groups fear something more sinister.

Instead of fuming over Donald Trump’s moves this week, climate advocates stayed mostly mum and plotted ways to make climate change MAGA-friendly.

Greenpeace’s victory means that PM Dick Schoof must achieve emission-reduction targets by 2030 or face the penalty.

Pressure from human rights organizations follows a POLITICO investigation into TotalEnergies plant.

Pollution in EU cities, while slowly improving, is still killing more than a quarter million people each year, a new report finds.

The rich oil state has built a team of silver-tongued U.N. negotiators with a simple mandate: keep plastic production growing.

EU countries are behind on most, if not all, their sustainability commitments.

What the European Union will be squabbling about in the Commission’s upcoming term.