By Karina Brown 15 June 2017 (Slate) – America is out of the Paris Agreement, and although that might be the best option for the future of the Earth, all things considered, it still is a terrible indicator of our prospects for fighting climate change. Currently, cities and states are individually signing back onto the […]
By Brady Dennis 15 June 2017 (The Washington Post) – President Trump once vowed to get rid of the Environmental Protection Agency “in almost every form,” leaving behind only “tidbits.” On Thursday, the man he appointed to lead the EPA went to Capitol Hill to defend a budget proposal that would begin that promised dismantling.“I […]
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. […]
20 June 2017 (United Nations) – Extremely high May and June temperatures have broken records in parts of Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the United States, the United Nations weather agency reported today, warning of more heatwaves to come.The heatwaves have arrived unusually early, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, noting at the […]
By Neela Banerjee and Zahra Hirji 13 June 2017RAYNE, Louisiana (The Times-Picayune) – As far back as Jayden Foytlin can remember, her cousin Madison came over to celebrate her birthday. The girls had been best friends since they were toddlers and spent almost every weekend together, playing video games and basketball in their driveways. This […]
By Brad Plumer 15 June 2017 WASHINGTON (The New York Times) – The Energy Department is closing an office that works with other countries to develop clean energy technology, another sign of the Trump administration’s retreat on climate-related activities after its withdrawal from the Paris agreement this month. The 11 staff members of the Office […]
By Chelsea Harvey 15 June 2017 (The Washington Post) – It’s common knowledge that the coast of Louisiana is quietly sinking into the balmy Gulf waters. But new research suggests we may have been underestimating how quickly it’s happening.A new paper, published Wednesday in the Geological Society of America’s bulletin GSA Today, includes an updated […]
By Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis 2 June 2017 (The Washington Post) – Less than four months ago, Scott Pruitt arrived in Washington with few connections to President Trump’s inner circle and took the helm of an agency where many employees were openly hostile to him.But the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency has emerged […]
By Ellen Knickmeyer 12 June 2017 SAN FRANCISCO (Associated Press) – The Trump administration on Monday threw out a new rule intended to limit the numbers of endangered whales and sea turtles getting caught in fishing nets off the West Coast, even though the fishing industry had proposed the measure. The National Marine Fisheries Service […]
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 […]
