The state's top emergency official also is under discussion to lead FEMA. The agency's acting chief resigned Monday after a six-month stint.

World leaders have vowed to fight rising temperatures for years. Many of those pledges fade when the summits end.

Saturday’s march through the streets of Belém, Brazil, was a contrast to the muzzling of dissent at past years’ U.N. summits.

The lone U.S. government representative at the United Nations climate gathering says the State Department made it harder for members of Congress to attend.

The Rhode Island Democrat will participate in events on offshore wind, shipping and greenhouse gas emissions before delivering a keynote speech at a roundtable with elected officials from other nations.

The group will keep three U.S. positions open in hopes of reviving operations in the future.

The demonstrators waved yellow flags protesting oil drilling in the Amazon.

Americans are paying less at the pump than they were a year ago, but industry analysts are mixed on how much credit President Donald Trump deserves.

Some of Thursday's speeches reflected anger and dismay at U.S. policies but could not hide the ambivalence that many countries feel about this year's climate talks.

Pulling out of the Paris climate agreement was not enough, an ex-aide to the U.S. president says on the eve of a summit in Brazil: "You have to potentially destroy it."

Democrats won gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, where candidates made affordability concerns and skyrocketing electricity bills central to their campaigns.

Ten years after nations adopted the Paris Agreement, its objectives are in jeopardy amid rising climate pollution and a political backlash against clean energy.