By Chris Mooney, Joe Heim, and Brady Dennis 29 April 2017 (The Washington Post) – On a sweltering April day, tens of thousands of demonstrators assembled in Washington on Saturday for the latest installment of the regular protests that punctuate the Trump era. This large-scale climate march marked President Trump’s first 100 days in office, […]
By Jessica Glenza29 April 2017 NEW YORK (The Guardian) – The US Environmental Protection Agency’s main climate change website is “undergoing changes” to better reflect “the agency’s new direction” under Donald Trump. The announcement, made late Friday evening, left empty what was previously the “official government site” providing “comprehensive information on the issue of climate […]
By Lynn Parramore20 April 2017 (INET) – You’ve probably heard the news that the celebrated post-WW II beating heart of America known as the middle class has gone from “burdened,” to “squeezed” to “dying.” But you might have heard less about what exactly is emerging in its place. In a new book, The Vanishing Middle […]
By Nathan Rott and Merrit Kennedy27 April 2017 (NPR) – President Trump signed an executive order Friday that aims to expand offshore drilling for oil and gas, in a move welcomed by the oil and gas industry and greeted with alarm by environmental groups. “Renewed offshore energy production will reduce the cost of energy, create […]
[Translation by Google.] By Victor Pires 12 April 2017 (ISA) – In a symbolic vote, at the end of the morning (12/4), in seven minutes, parliamentarians approved a report by Deputy José Reinaldo (PSB-MA) of Provisional Measure (MP) 758/2016, which reduces the protection of 510 thousand hectares [1.26 million acres] of protected areas in western […]
By Joe Davidson7 April 2017 (The Washington Post) – When Mike Cox quit, he did so with gusto. After 25 years, he retired last week from the Environmental Protection Agency with a tough message for the boss, Administrator Scott Pruitt. “I, along with many EPA staff, are becoming increasing alarmed about the direction of EPA […]
By Alex Kasprak 29 March 2017 (Snopes) – On 29 March 2017, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a hearing titled “Climate Science: Assumptions, Policy Implications, and the Scientific Method,” which heard the testimony of four scientists. Just one of those espoused views and research that represents the mainstream scientific consensus surrounding […]
By Ben Guarino 14 April 2017 (The Washington Post) – On Wednesday, 12 April 2017, 56 years to the day after Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, a Phoenix-based collective called the Autonomous Space Agency Network launched a weather balloon to about 90,000 feet. The balloon, Aphrodite 1, weighed a little […]
By Arturo Garcia8 April 2017 (Snopes) – On 7 April 2017, reports appeared that the Environmental Protection Agency will shut down a program helping cities and states prepare for the effects of climate change. The move was allegedly spurred by a 31 percent cut in the agency’s funding by President Donald Trump’s administration. The program, […]
[UPDATE: This has been changed to a photo of a guy fishing. Des suspects a provocateur at work in the BLM.] By Andrew Freedman6 April 2017 (Mashable) – Even the smallest of symbolic details can’t escape the changes of life in Trump’s America. The government agency responsible for overseeing a staggering 258 million acres of […]
