Since NY City adopted congestion picking, traffic in the zone has decreased by 11% and subway ridership has risen by 9%.

More info: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opinion/congestion-pricing-traffic-new-york.html

Each of the past eight years set a record for ocean heat, with the rate of ocean warming doubling over the past two decades.

More info: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/climate/the-weather-is-getting-wilder-and-some-see-a-dire-signal-in-the-data.html?searchResultPosition=2

It took Volkswagen 10 years to deliver its first million pure electric vehicles. The fourth million took just one year.

More: https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/volkswagen-group-has-delivered-4-million-all-electric-vehicles-since-2013-becfe757?mod=djemclimate

The Trump administration did not receive a single bid for oil and gas exploration opportunities in Alaska’s Cook Inlet.

More: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/climate/cook-inlet-alaska-lease-sale-bids.html

The Trump administration has eliminated the credit for the start-stop feature in cars.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/business/energy-environment/epa-tax-credits-stop-start-ignition-cars.html?searchResultPosition=1

Solar power, EVs, and other clean-energy technologies drove more than 1/3 of the growth in China’s economy in 2025.

More info:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-clean-energy-drove-more-than-a-third-of-chinas-gdp-growth-in-2025/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_climatecoach

Courts have now revived all five Atlantic Coast projects that Trump officials halted in December while legal battles play out.

More info: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/climate/judge-offshore-wind-sunrise.html

The Energy Department is revising or canceling more than $83 billion in loans for clean energy technologies.

More info: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/climate/energy-dept-says-it-is-canceling-30-billion-in-clean-energy-loans.html?searchResultPosition=1

Global ocean heat content increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2025.

More info: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09012026/ocean-warming-breaks-record-for-ninth-straight-year/?utm_source=InsideClimate+News&utm_campaign=c6d1f2caee-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_01_10_11_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-c6d1f2caee-328589208

The US is withdrawing from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the 1992 U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

More info:  https://www.wsj.com/world/trump-pulls-u-s-out-of-more-than-30-u-n-bodies-11127ca4?mod=djemclimate