The new legislation requires oil and gas companies to pay for some of the damages caused by climate change. But legal experts ...

The first time Donald Trump became president, New York and other progressive states had a sacred task before the world: to ...

Its new extraterritorial climate levy will hit workers across the U.S. for fossil-fuel production.

Large fossil fuel companies would have to pay fees to help New York fight the effects of climate change under a bill signed ...

Vermont became the first state in the country to enact the law after it suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from ...

Governor Hochul signed the Climate Change Superfund Act (Act) into law, making New York the second state (after Vermont) to ...

Large fossil fuel companies will be required to pony up money to New York state for damage caused by climate change under a ...

The Climate Change Superfund Act charges any fossil fuel company that emitted over a billion tons of greenhouse gas from 2000 to 2018.

Large fossil fuel companies would have to pay fees to help New York fight the effects of climate change under a bill signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul ALBANY, N.Y. -- Large fossil fuel ...

State governments increasingly engage on climate issues. In search of a new source of funding for hundreds of billions of dollars in ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Climate Change Superfund Act on Thursday. The law would address climate change by imposing a huge tax on fossil fuel companies—they will collectively owe an ...

The new law addresses climate change in New York by charging any polluter that emitted over a billion tons of greenhouse gas from 2000 to 2018, based on their historical share of total emissions.