By Catherine Lucey, Zeke Miller, and Jonathan Lemire 13 September 2018 WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Thursday rejected the official conclusion that nearly 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico from last year’s Hurricane Maria, arguing without evidence that the number was wrong and calling it a plot by Democrats to make him “look […]
27 August 2018 (Climate State) – Thirty years ago, NASA scientist James Hansen testified to Congress that the age of climate change had arrived. The Incredible Track Record of Early Climate Models
By Justin Wise 12 September 2018 (The Hill) – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said this week that millions of water bottles meant for victims of Hurricane Maria have been left undistributed at an airport in Puerto Rico for more than a year. CBS News journalist David Begnaud reported on Wednesday that FEMA acknowledged […]
By Ellen Knickmeyer and John Raby 4 September 2018 GRANT TOWN, West Virgina (AP) – It’s coal people like miner Steve Knotts, 62, who make West Virginia Trump Country. So it was no surprise that President Donald Trump picked the state to announce his plan rolling back Obama-era pollution controls on coal-fired power plants. Trump […]
By Dan Elliott 31 August 2018 DENVER (AP) – The Trump administration is rolling back some U.S. regulations on climate-changing methane pollution, calling them expensive and burdensome, but Colorado says its rules are working — and they have industry support.Energy companies have found and repaired about 73,000 methane leaks since 2015 under a state-required oil […]
By Virginia Harrison 1 September 2018 (BBC News) – Suicide attempts and horrifying acts of self-harm are drawing fresh attention to the suffering of refugee children on Nauru, in what is being described as a “mental health crisis”. The tiny island nation, site of Australia’s controversial offshore processing centre, has long been plagued with allegations […]
By Jenni Fink 31 August 2018 (Newsweek) – On Thursday, Mexican authorities declared a health emergency for the beach town of Acapulco because of large quantities of uncollected garbage that have piled up. Carlos de la Peña, the health secretary of the state of Guerrero, located on Mexico’s Pacific Coast, told the Associated Press that […]
By Alastair Leithead 3 September 2018 NAIROBI (BBC News) – Carcases of nearly 90 elephants have been found near a famous wildlife sanctuary in Botswana, conservationists say. Elephants Without Borders, which is conducting an aerial survey, said the scale of poaching deaths is the largest seen in Africa. The spike coincides with Botswana’s anti-poaching unit […]
By Felipe Villamor 28 August 2018 MANILA (The New York Times) – Relatives of eight people killed by Philippine police officers during President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs have accused the president of murder in a complaint filed with the International Criminal Court, their lawyer said on Tuesday.The complaint is the second brought at the […]
By Melissa Healy 24 August 2018 (Los Angeles Times) – When the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a proposal this week to give states more latitude in regulating pollution from power plants within their borders, it came with a sobering forecast of its likely impact on Americans’ health.By 2030, adoption of the Affordable Clean Energy Rule […]
