By Timothy Cama And Devin Henry 6 October 2017 (The Hill) – The Trump administration will soon propose repealing the Obama administration’s climate change rule for power plants but won’t commit to replacing it with another regulation. A draft of the proposal obtained by The Hill on Friday asserts that under former President Barack Obama, […]
By Darryl Fears 6 October 2017 (The Washington Post) – An Interior Department executive turned whistleblower who claimed the Trump administration retaliated against him for publicly disclosing how climate change affects Alaska Native communities resigned Wednesday. In a separate criticism of Interior’s leadership, a group of former department officials, from both Republican and Democratic administrations, […]
By Doyle Rice 5 October 2017 (USA Today) – From walruses to turtles and woodpeckers to toads, the Trump administration Wednesday declined to list 25 species as endangered, noting that extra protection “is not warranted at this time.” Of particular concern to environmental groups is the Pacific walrus, which had been considered a candidate for […]
By Joshua Gillin 3 October 2017 (Politifact) – Conservative news outlets have been spreading a false story online that wrongly says aid to Hurricane Maria victims isn’t being distributed in Puerto Rico because union truck drivers have gone on strike.The headline on a 30 September 2017, post on The Gateway Pundit read, “San Juan Teamsters […]
By Avery Anapol 3 October 2017 (The Hill) – Oxfam America is stepping in to help Puerto Rico, saying the Trump administration’s response has been “inadequate.”The global nonprofit’s president, Abby Maxman, said in a statement Tuesday that the group is “outraged” at the U.S. government’s slow response in Puerto Rico, where more than half of […]
SOUFRIERE, Dominica, 1 October 2017 (SSCS): In Dominica, every village, every person, every street, was impacted by the hurricane. The island’s government officials call the damage “unprecedented.” The once picturesque village of Soufriere, with a population of about 1400, was one of the hardest hit, as evidenced by the photos taken by Sea Shepherd on […]
By Omaya Sosa Pascual [translation by Google] 28 September 2017 (Centro de Periodismo Investigativo) – Leovigildo Cotté died in the middle of desperation for not getting the oxygen that sustained his life in the only shelter that exists in the town of Lajas which has been without electricity since the passage of Hurricane Maria a […]
By Karma Allen 27 September 2017 (ABC News) – A rare late-September heat wave has brought record-high temperatures to parts of the Midwest, shattering records that have stood for more than 100 years.Detroit set a new daily record high on Tuesday with temperatures hitting 93 degrees — making it the hottest day of the year […]
19 September 2017 (EDGI) – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) changed language on the SmartWay Program website, reducing mentions of carbon, greenhouse gasses, and climate change. Terms like “sustainability” and “emissions” replaced mentions of “carbon,” and emphasis on international SmartWay and other climate efforts were reduced. Description The EPA’s SmartWay Program was established in 2004 […]
By Jenny Marder 30 September 2017 (PBS) – Lt. Gen. Jeffrey S. Buchanan, the Department of Defense’s primary military liaison with FEMA, toured the damage in Puerto Rico for the first time Saturday during a helicopter ride from San Juan to Ceiba. After landing at a hangar in Ceiba with no power, internet or cellular […]
