KATHY CASTOR

U.S. Rep. Sean Casten receives endorsements from Democratic congressional colleagues in his primary race against Rep. Marie Newman.

As President Joe Biden visited one disaster site after another this summer he declared climate change “everybody’s crisis.”.

Congressional Democrats have approved a measure reinstating rules aimed at limiting climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas drilling, a rare effort by Democrats to use the legislative branch to overturn a regulatory rollback under President Donald Trump.

Republican Rep. John Curtis of Utah says that contrary to their image, Republicans care about climate change.

As the impact of climate change becomes more apparent, misinformation about it is shifting to focus more and more on extreme weather.

The plan, put forth Tuesday in a 538-page report, sets a range of targets, including a 45% reduction by 2030 of the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. The plan also would require that new cars sold by 2035 emit no greenhouse gases, while heavy-duty trucks would eliminate those emissions by 2040. The plan would eliminate overall emissions from the power sector by 2040 and all but eliminate greenhouse emissions from all economic sectors by 2050. "Democrats know the climate crisis is the essential crisis of our time, threatening public health, jobs and the economy, national security and values,'' Pelosi said Tuesday at a Capitol news conference. Even with all of these problems, the climate crisis stands out, Democrats said.