Obama’s climate legacy: can it survive President Trump?
In the third of our Obama years trilogy, we ask whether the climate gains of the past eight years can last as the Donald takes power
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Obama’s climate legacy: China, India and the Paris pact
In the second of a three-part series, we look at how President Obama galvanised international action on climate change
Executive disorder: Trump’s climate policies bid goodbye to reality
Despite the rhetoric, US president Donald Trump’s irrational climate order will fail to benefit the miners he has championed
Obama’s climate legacy: a battle of attrition at home
In the first of a three-part series, Climate Home looks at Barack Obama’s domestic record on one of his top priority issues
Reader survey: Obama’s greatest climate impact was in China
Email subscribers and twitter followers were most positive about President Obama’s impact on the world stage
Obama: ‘I didn’t kill coal, gas did’
Donald Trump has accused Barack Obama of waging a “war on coal”, but the current president says it was “market forces”
Obama heads to Arctic to hammer climate message
NEWS: President to use Alaska meeting to address melting Arctic’s challenges and forge ahead on global climate deal talks
Obama stakes claim to Paris climate legacy
NEWS: US president is pulling out all the stops for a global pact as quiver of climate policies unveiled at home
President Obama’s 2015 State of the Union – reimagined
BLOG: How would the State of the Union address look if Obama turned environmentalist? 350’s Jamie Henn conducts a rewrite
President Obama threatens Keystone XL veto
NEWS: Polluting oil pipeline faces more setbacks as Obama threatens to block Congress bill
Obama faces first climate test of 2015 with Keystone vote
ANALYSIS: Obama could see Keystone bill on his desk later this month, as Republican controlled Congress pushes for final decision on pipeline
Keystone XL Senate vote too tight to call
NEWS: Supporters of controversial tar sands pipeline need one more vote to pass bill through Senate
Obama administration announces $4 billion US clean energy fund
NEWS: Loan guarantees aim to boost flagging renewables sectors, under pressure from cheaper fossil fuels
Obama allies take on Koch brothers over climate denial
NEWS: Obama-linked Organizing for Action group calls on voters to fight back against Koch brother influence
Obama appeals to health benefits of acting on climate
NEWS: President believes cutting pollution levels and deaths from car and power emissions could mobilise public support
Obama climate plan will deliver only a quarter of pledged 2030 cuts
ANALYSIS: New US proposals likely to be tip of new carbon cuts as country seeks to meet international targets
US carbon cuts will leave world ‘safer and more stable’ says Obama
NEWS: Obama’s climate rules show international leadership, but environmentalists will push for tougher targets
Finally, the US gets serious on climate change
COMMENT: Obama’s emission cuts could be more ambitious, but it’s the political message from new EPA laws that’s significant
UN climate chief backs Obama’s new US carbon cuts
NEWS: White House move to curb carbon emissions could drive talks on 2015 climate deal forwards, says Christiana Figueres
New US coal standards ‘critical’ test of Obama’s climate policy
ANALYSIS: New US power plant standards, due in June, will be the ultimate litmus test of Obama’s Climate Action Plan
White House to host Google+ Hangout on climate change
NEWS: Ernest Moniz and Gina McCarthy to address Obama’s climate policies, including new coal regulations, in online chat
Climate change ‘moves into the present’, says US government report
NEWS: Climate change already having visible impacts across US, and temperatures could rise another 2.2C in coming decades
US solar power installed costs on course for 2020 target
ANALYSIS: Solar initiative put in place under Obama administration causes solar prices to fall every quarter for three years
US Supreme Court backs rule to limit coal pollution
NEWS: Court decision upholds rule to limit cross-state pollution, in major victory for Obama administration