Politico

German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze delivers a speech at the Reichstag building in Berlin on Sept. 26, 2019. | Michael Sohn/AP Photo BERLIN — EU leaders last week agreed to increase the bloc's 2030 climate target by the end of the year. Now it's up to German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze to make it happen. That's a big change for Berlin, which has … [Read more...] about Germany’s ‘very, very tough’ climate battle

Former diplomat and special forces soldier got green light to work with Kurds to develop crude in northeastern Syria. … [Read more...] about Shadowy U.S. firm secures deal for Syrian oil

Acting U.S. Park Police Chief Gregory Monahan testifies before a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on July 28. | (Leah Millis/Pool via AP) The acting chief of the U.S. Park Police defended the way his officers cleared Black Lives Matter demonstrators from near the White House last month, shortly before President Donald Trump's walk to a historic church. Gregory … [Read more...] about Park Police head defends clearing BLM protesters near White House

Sens. Cory Gardner and Steve Daines walk through the U.S. Capitol. | Zach Gibson/Getty Images The House on Wednesday approved the most ambitious conservation package in a generation, sending to the White House the bipartisan legislation whose passage was only made possible by an odd alignment of election-year politics. The ideas at the core of the Great American Outdoors Act … [Read more...] about House sends 'holy grail' conservation legislation to Trump

Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder leaves the Federal Courthouse after he was arrested in a $60 million federal bribery probe Tuesday, July 21, 2020, in Columbus, Ohio. | AP Photo/Jay LaPrete Federal law enforcement officials charged Republican Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and five lobbyists and advisers on Tuesday in a yearslong bribery scheme aimed at securing a … [Read more...] about Ohio House speaker charged in bribery scheme over power plant bailout