Jean covers international climate policy for Climatewire. Her special areas of focus include U.N. policy, U.S. foreign policy and stories about how other nations are grappling with climate change. She also does occasional features on domestic issues. She worked previously for Platts, Politico and CQ. She has a master's in journalism from Boston University and graduated with honors from the Western Washington University with a theater arts degree.
President Trump's proposed changes to the National Environmental Policy Act open the door for more cursory reviews of planned projects like power plants, pipelines, and visitor centers at national parks. Here's how three projects could be affected.
It took seven years for President Obama to get federal agencies on the same page about considering the climate impacts of proposed projects. That could be reversed by regulations expected to be released by the White House as early as today.
Australia's catastrophic brush fire season comes as the country continues to insist on a climate loophole that critics say would undermine the Paris Agreement's objective of keeping global warming to relatively safe levels.
On Dec. 12, 2015, negotiators from 195 countries gathered in an abandoned airfield outside Paris to set in motion a plan to avert catastrophic climate change.
MADRID — More than two weeks of U.N. climate talks ended yesterday with little headway on a key issue related to the Paris climate accord. The impasse frustrated both activists and negotiators and raised fresh worries about the future of the planet.