Trump walks onstage to deliver the keynote address at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Policy Conference at the Washington Hilton on 22 June 2024 in Washington, D.C. Photo: Samuel Corum / Getty Images

What Trump allies’ Project 2025 would mean for the fight against climate change – “Trump would frack the National Mall if he thought it would make a couple of bucks for donors and Big Oil”

By Zack Budryk and Rachel Frazin 13 July 2025 (The Hill) – Project 2025, a controversial conservative roadmap that aims to guide the next Republican administration, calls for the elimination of multiple energy- and environment-related offices and rules — moves that would restrict the government’s ability to combat climate change and pollution. Policies promoted under the plan […]

Staff at Lakewood Church hand out water and operate a cooling station in Houston, Tuesday, 9 July 2024. The effects of Hurricane Beryl left most in the area without power. Photo: Eric Gay / AP Photo

Houston is on a path to an all-out power crisis – “I’ve seen tweets from even the most committed Houstonians deliberating whether it’s time to move”

By Andrea Valdez 12 July 2024 (The Atlantic) – For the 2.2 million people in Houston who lost power Monday after Hurricane Beryl swept through the city, the first question they had was When will the electricity be back on? The city’s utility, CenterPoint Energy, didn’t yet have an online outage map to monitor. There was, however, […]

A polar bear cools down in ice that was brought to its enclosure on a hot and sunny day at the Prague zoo, Czech Republic, Wednesday, 10 July 2024. Photo: Petr David Josek / AP Photo

Sizzling heat wave in parts of southern and central Europe prompts alerts – “It’s hell outside”

By Jovana Gec 11 July 2024 BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – Weather alerts, forest fires, melting pavement in cities: A sizzling heat wave has sent temperatures in parts of central and southern Europe soaring toward 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in some places. From Italy to Romania, authorities warned people to be cautious, drive carefully if […]

A drone view shows flood waters surrounding homes in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl in Surfside Beach, Texas, U.S., 8 July 2024. Photo: Adrees Latif / REUTERS

Texas insurance crisis gets bad news – “With insurers withdrawing from climate-risk-prone markets or not renewing policies, securing essential coverage is becoming increasingly challenging”

By Suzanne Blake 10 July 2024 (Newsweek) – Texans have been facing a home insurance crisis that is only likely to escalate in the days after Hurricane Beryl, experts told Newsweek. Hurricane Beryl first entered Texas in Matagorda on Monday morning as a Category 1 hurricane after moving throughout the Caribbean. The hurricane persisted throughout Texas with strong winds and rain, […]

NASA’s ECOSTRESS instrument on 19 June 2024 recorded scorching roads and sidewalks across Phoenix, where contact with skin could cause serious burns in minutes to seconds, as indicated in the legend. Graphic: NASA / JPL-Caltech

NASA captures 160°F (71°C) roads and sidewalks across Phoenix – “It looks like we’re at a record pace, which is a record we really don’t want to set”

By Jessica Boehm 10 July 2024 (Axios) – Many Phoenix streets and sidewalks can reach 160° during the hottest parts of the day, according to a new NASA analysis. Why it matters: Surfaces that hot can cause contact burns in seconds, and Valley hospitals are seeing an uptick in patients with serious burn injuries. The big picture: Human-caused climate […]

Plaintiffs Mica, 14; Badge 15, Lander 18, and Taleah, 19, listen to arguments during a status hearing on 12 May 2023, in Helena, Montana, for a case that they and other Montana youth filed against the state arguing Montana officials are not meeting their constitutional obligations to protect residents from climate change. The first-of-its-kind trial began Monday, 12 June 2023, before District Court Judge Kathy Seeley in Helena. Photo: Thom Bridge /Independent Record / AP

Montana Republicans appeal to state supreme court to overturn landmark climate ruling – Ruling in Montana case could impact climate change lawsuits across country – “It’s an evasion of your constitutional obligation to protect our rights and our state. Why would you not try?”

By Josh Marcus 11 July 2024 SAN FRANCISCO (The Independent) – Republican officials in Montana urged the state supreme court on Wednesday to overturn a landmark 2023 climate ruling, which sided with a group of young plaintiffs who argued the state was violating their constitutional rights by allowing fossil fuel projects to move forward without […]

Fallen power lines littered the roads in Galveston after Hurricane Beryl hit the Texas coast on Monday, 8 July 2024. Photo: Meridith Kohut / The New York Times

Rising frustration in Houston after millions lost power in storm – “For a Category 1 hurricane to result in over a million customer outages in its immediate aftermath demonstrates that there is plenty of need for the resiliency hardening investments”

By J. David Goodman and Ivan Penn 10 July 2024 (The New York Times) – The sun felt hotter than usual in Houston this week, as millions of sweltering residents emerged from the rapid thrashing of Hurricane Beryl to face a prolonged power outage — the largest ever seen by the city’s utility, according to […]

James M. Inhofe during a Senate hearing in 2009. The Senate Environment Committee gave him a prominent platform from which to speak out against growing scientific consensus that humans were causing climate change by burning fossil fuels. Photo: Scott J. Ferrell / Congressional Quarterly / Getty Images

James M. Inhofe, Senator who denied climate change, dies at 89

By Robert D. McFadden 9 July 2024 (The New York Times) – James M. Inhofe, a five-term Republican senator from Oklahoma and, until President Donald J. Trump’s arrival in 2017, arguably Washington’s most prominent denier of the established science of human-generated climate change, died on Tuesday. He was 89. His family announced his death in […]

Satellite image of Hurricane Beryl as it makes landfall on the Gulf Coast of Texas on 8 July 2024. Photo: Wanmei Liang / NASA Earth Observatory

8 dead, 2.5 million without power as Hurricane Beryl slams into Texas, Louisiana

By Clyde Hughes, Allen Cone, and Darryl Coote 8 July 2024 (UPI) – At least eight people were killed after Hurricane Beryl slammed southeast Texas with heavy winds, rain and flash flooding Monday. More than 2.5 million were still without power late Monday. The death toll included seven people killed in Texas and one in […]

A property is engulfed in flames as the Thompson Fire burns, Tuesday, 2 July 2024, in Oroville, California. Photo: Ethan Swope / AP

Persistent heat wave in the U.S. expected to shatter new records as it bakes West and swelters in East – “Unfortunately, there won’t be much relief overnight either”

By Margery A. Beck 7 July 2024 (AP) – A long-running heat wave that has already shattered previous records across the U.S. will persist, baking parts of the West with dangerous temperatures that will soar into the 100s and holding the East in its hot and humid grip throughout the week, forecasters said Sunday. An excessive heat warning […]

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