Stung by the party’s sweeping losses in November and desperate to win back working-class voters, the Democratic Party is in retreat on climate change. Nowhere is that retrenchment more jarring than in the nation’s most populous state, a longtime bastion of progressive politics on the environment.

Last week the world’s leading scientists met in Exeter UK to discuss climate tipping points. Their conclusion is alarming: the world is entering a “danger zone where multiple climate tipping points pose catastrophic risks to billions of people”.

As she canvassed for Zohran Mamdani in New York City on Tuesday last week, Batul Hassan should have been elated. Her mayoral candidate—a 33-year-old state assemblymember—was surging in the polls and would within hours soundly defeat Andrew Cuomo on first preference votes in the Democratic primary election.

Heat and other climate impacts like floods and storms affect voters, candidates and poll workers in different ways at different times, and can even tip election results, researchers and officials report.

An international coalition for phasing out fossil fuels says it told the government after the election it would have to quit the group if it re-started looking for new oil and gas, contradicting what the climate change minister told the media.

Green Jobs PAC, which helped defeat an initiative that would've repealed Washington's climate law, failed to disclose donors until after the November election.

A political committee that helped defeat last year’s ballot measure to repeal a Washington climate law was fined $20,000 on Thursday for not disclosing how it spent $1 million until after the election.