By Zahra Hirji 14 July 2017 (BuzzFeed News) – Lamar Smith, one of the most vocal critics of climate science in Congress, led a secret trip to the Arctic in May, BuzzFeed News has learned.He and at least eight other US representatives, mostly members of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, met with […]
By Sean Reilly 20 June 2017 (E&E News) – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt continues to clean house at a key advisory committee, signaling plans to drop several dozen current members of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), according to an email yesterday from a senior agency official.All board members whose three-year […]
2 July 2017 (PBS) – In the latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change, Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, has recruited a team of researchers to challenge climate science. Emily Holden, who broke the story for E&E News’s ClimateWire, joins Hari Sreenivasan from Washington, D.C. EPA launching program to […]
By Alan Jude Ryland 5 July 2017 (Second Nexus) – New legislation allows anyone in Florida to challenge what’s taught in public schools. The measure, officially called Florida House Bill 989, went into effect Saturday. Representative Byron Donalds (R-Naples) introduced the bill in February. Governor Rick Scott signed it into law after it passed the […]
By David Roberts 14 June 2017 (Vox) – In September 2016, speaking to an audience of fossil fuel executives at a Shale Insight conference in Pittsburgh, Donald Trump promised, “Oh, you will like me so much.”They didn’t give him much money during his campaign, presumably because, like most people, they were confident he wouldn’t win. […]
By Chris Mooney 24 May 2017 (The Washington Post) – In a sign of growing tensions between scientists and the Trump administration, researchers published a scientific paper Wednesday that was conceived and written as an explicit refutation to an assertion by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt about climate change.The study, in the journal Nature […]
By Dino Grandoni 22 May 2017 (The Washington Post) – On Thursday, a group of scientists, including three working for the U.S. Geological Survey, published a paper that highlighted the link between sea-level rise and global climate change, arguing that previously studies may have underestimated the risk flooding poses to coastal communities.However, three of the […]
By Sharon Lerner 28 April 2017 (The Intercept) – The hardest part of reversing the warming of the planet may be convincing climate change skeptics of the need to do so. Although scientists who study the issue overwhelming agree that the earth is undergoing rapid and profound climate changes due to the burning of fossil […]
By Luke Runyon 18 May 2017 (Harvest Public Media) – The livelihoods of farmers and ranchers are intimately tied to weather and the environment. But they may not be able to depend on research conducted by the government to help them adapt to climate change if the Trump administration follows through on campaign promises to […]
15 May 2017 (Alt NASA) – Thank you for supporting us. We have not been able to post because of our hostile working conditions. If you have a friend or family member working for NASA, EPA, or NPS, the stories they tell are true, it is truly a hard time. Officials have been trying […]
