Green New Deal supporters pushed back today against the notion that the carbon-cutting proposal would be bad for agriculture, saying they've collected about 10,000 signatures on a letter to Congress supporting the measure.

The Green New Deal is wildly unpopular among voters, but that's if they hear the Republican sales pitch, according to new polling from the center-right American Action Network.

Even before last night's Democratic presidential debate, it was unlikely that former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper was going to get the Green New Deal vote.

Rhiana Gunn-Wright, a scholar helping craft policies underpinning the Green New Deal, isn't waiting around for lawmakers to pump out language to curb emissions.

The Democratic presidential field gets its first chance to square off this week when most of the two dozen candidates gather in Miami for two days of debate.

Congressional Republicans followed a script — literally — to turn a Democrat-led hearing on climate change yesterday into an anti-Green New Deal harangue.

A showdown is brewing in the final days of New York's legislative session over Green New Deal legislation.

The daylong workshop was billed as a discussion on how to pay for the Green New Deal.

The Senate vote is over, but the Green New Deal will likely permeate every climate debate in the near future, even in the few pockets of Capitol Hill where climate change is no longer so partisan.

Alex Flint sent the email at 5:24 p.m. on a Tuesday, but it had the tone of a middle-of-the-night manifesto. In it, the conservative climate activist attacked one of the biggest barriers to progress on global warming — the continued denial of climate science by key voices on the right.

The House Oversight and Reform Committee made little headway when it met yesterday for four hours to discuss climate change and the problems it poses for national security.

What's in a number? When it comes to the $93 trillion estimate for the Green New Deal, the answer is found in a network of interlinked groups: a think tank, its political arm and a super political action committee.

House Democrats yesterday introduced their latest proposal to fight climate change — without mentioning the Green New Deal.

From the ashes of yesterday's Senate vote on the Green New Deal may come legislative compromise to address climate change.

Lobbyists are carrying out a messaging war over the Green New Deal, which will come up for a vote in the Senate today.

The ambitious climate plan is at an inflection point. Legislatively, momentum has stalled. The number of new co-sponsors has slowed to a trickle, and its prospects of passage — never good to begin with — have hit roadblocks in the House and Senate.

Few legislative efforts over the last 25 years compare with the grueling, monthslong battle to turn the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law.

Several moderate Democrats said yesterday they would vote against the Green New Deal if it came to the House floor, preferring instead to focus on climate policy they see as more pragmatic.

Concerns about progressive demands could complicate the House taking up a fiscal 2020 budget resolution in coming weeks.

The New Deal, as part of the Green New Deal, isn't often the piece that gets the most attention. But there are similarities between the Great Depression-era program and today's climate slogan.

The "Green New Deal" is perhaps this year's favorite punching bag at the Conservative Political Action Conference in suburban Washington, D.C.

The GOP launched another round of attacks on the progressive climate resolution yesterday that included House Natural Resources ranking member Rob Bishop eating a hamburger.

Senate leaders went back and forth on the "Green New Deal" this morning, a microcosm of the climate messaging battle playing out on an increasingly national stage.

The "Green New Deal" has hit the political mainstream in a way most environmental issues never do.

In a matter of months, the "Green New Deal" has transformed the way Democratic candidates for president talk about climate change.

The birth of the Sunrise Movement started with a small grant, a lot of Monster Energy drinks and a little help from the Sierra Club. Now it's the most talked-about environmental group in Washington.

MEDORA, N.D. — The nation's oil and gas regulators voted to condemn the Green New Deal yesterday, saying it violates the principle of federalism by imposing national regulations on fossil fuel use.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) today announced draft legislation to ensure that low-income communities have a hand in drafting environmental regulations and implementing the Green New Deal.

A coalition of unions and environmental groups unveiled a worker-friendly plan today for getting the U.S. to net-zero emissions by 2050, another sign of labor looking to play a role in the climate policy debate amid Green New Deal fervor and 2020 presidential politics.

House Democrats came into the 116th Congress hoping to discuss climate solutions and not debate the widely accepted science that says greenhouse gases are warming the Earth.

Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg supports "a Green New Deal" and taxing carbon dioxide emissions, his campaign announced yesterday.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) blasted "conservatives on both sides of the aisle" at a Sunrise Movement event last night, as the group rallied with other progressives in Washington, D.C., to conclude weeks of climate rallies across the country.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) today unveiled an ambitious plan to make the nation's second-largest city a Green New Deal leader, with lofty goals for electric vehicles and zero-emissions buildings.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said yesterday that the largest group of U.S. unions does not support the Green New Deal in its current form, a potential blow for activists hoping to get labor on board with the progressive climate plan.

New Mexico Rep. Ben Ray Luján, a top House Democrat who is running for Senate, said last night he would co-sponsor the Green New Deal.

The Green New Deal enjoys sky-high support among Iowa Democrats, according to a new poll — a sign the ambitious climate plan could play a significant role in the state's milestone presidential caucus and the 2020 Democratic primary overall.

Minnesota state lawmakers yesterday introduced a version of the Green New Deal, a sweeping plan that aims to reduce emissions and transition the state to a green economy.

President Trump's former energy adviser George David Banks predicted yesterday that the Green New Deal would continue to spark Republican counterproposals on climate, particularly plans focused on low-carbon technologies.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) today formally rolled out the "Green Real Deal" a counteroffer to the Green New Deal, soliciting cheers and jeers from the right.

If Green New Deal architect Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez makes good on plans to visit an Appalachian coal mine, she can expect to hear an aggressive pitch for not giving up on the fossil fuel that's the region's economic lifeblood.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry was positive yesterday about a Republican proposal to dramatically increase clean energy research spending in response to climate change.

HOUSTON — As questions swirl about proposed budget cuts, the Department of Energy's undersecretary for science says the agency is positioned to retain a lead role in pushing the boundaries of technology.

A vote on the Green New Deal will cap weeks of unusually intense debate about climate change, and the long-term political fallout could help determine where policy on the issue ultimately lands.

House Natural Resources ranking member Rob Bishop (R-Utah) this morning likened the Green New Deal to genocide, one of another string of hyperbolic comments aimed at discrediting the progressive climate plan.

A coalition of unions is voicing concern about the Green New Deal amid Capitol Hill fervor around the progressive climate change plan.

The country's largest socialist organization has joined the race to define the Green New Deal.

HOUSTON — Supporters of Green New Deal-style plans are recklessly calling to cut off Americans and populations around the world from critical energy supplies, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler told an audience of oil and gas industry executives today.

Republicans and Democrats sparred on the Senate floor this afternoon over the Green New Deal and climate policy in general.

House Democrats are launching a wide-ranging probe of President Trump and his associates in a ploy to distract voters from the Green New Deal, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said last night.

President Trump this weekend mocked the "Green New Deal" during a rambling speech that included comments about almost blocking drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry this morning dismissed the "Green New Deal" as a "fantasy" perpetuated by activists outside the political mainstream.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today downplayed possible House action on the "Green New Deal," praising the enthusiasm behind it but saying committees would take the lead in writing any climate legislation.