Although there are signs of progress, the largest delivery companies have scaled back climate pledges and the industry isn’t keeping pace with climbing emissions from a global demand surge.

The Biden administration on Jan. 26 halted the approval of new licenses to export U.S. liquefied natural gas — a moratorium likely to disrupt plans for billions of dollars in projects.

The forum is part of U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Green Trade Strategy, launched last June, to create climate change trade policies, programs and infrastructure.

NEW ORLEANS  — Oil companies offered a combined $264 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on March 29 in a sale mandated by last year’s climate bill compromise.

WASHINGTON — Scaling down his Build Back Better plans, President Joe Biden on Oct. 19 described a more limited vision to Democratic lawmakers of a $2 trillion government-overhaul package with at least $500 billion to tackle climate change and money for middle-class priorities — child tax credits, paid family leave, health care and free pre-kindergarten.

U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced June 30 that the agency plans to award $905 million in grants through the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America program.

Major climate measures sought by the White House that were left on the cutting room floor during infrastructure negotiations with Republicans will be non-negotiable items as the administration sets its sights on the next legislative vehicle, a White House official said June 30.

President Joe Biden invited world leaders to join the U.S. in driving a “fourth industrial revolution” to transform the energy sector, create jobs and overcome the threat of climate change, capping his two-day summit on global warming April 23.

WASHINGTON — In the most ambitious U.S. effort to stave off the worst effects of climate change, President Joe Biden issued executive orders Jan. 27 to cut oil, gas and coal emissions and double energy production from offshore wind turbines.

Democrats on the transportation authorizing committees are angling to incorporate climate resilience provisions into infrastructure policy legislation they plan to craft sometime this year, despite unwavering opposition from top Republicans.