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 first-term push to dismantle Obama-era climate regulations could add an estimated 1.8 gigatons of extra carbon dioxide equivalent to the Earth's atmosphere by 2035. That's on par with one-third of last year's U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
EPA bowed to White House pressure during interagency review of an oil and gas emissions rule by reducing requirements for a segment of the natural gas supply chain to monitor and repair methane leaks.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has claimed credit for paving the way to the Paris Agreement by convincing China to enter into an earlier landmark climate deal with the United States, in 2014.
EPA bowed to White House pressure to reduce requirements for monitoring and repairing methane leaks at facilities that push natural gas through pipelines. EPA staffers said it could "compromise" the legal underpinning of the rule.
For more than half of its 50-year history, EPA did not regulate greenhouse gas emissions.