By Aileen Wagner29 March 2017 (Second Nexus) – Eight West Coast leaders have issued a statement defying President Donald Trump’s environmental policy rollbacks and committing to continuing to fight climate change by reducing carbon emissions and pollution. […] The group disputed the president’s repeated statements that environmental protections are causing job loss, saying “There is […]
By Andrew Revkin14 March 2017 (ProPublica) – [Update, 16 March 2017] Our story on March 13 concerning Secretary of Defense James Mattis’ views on the relationship between climate change and national security was based on excerpts from unpublished written exchanges between Mattis and several Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee following his Jan. 12 […]
By Christopher Luu19 March 2017 (Refinery29) – The next time that you pick up a box of Honey Nut Cheerios, you’ll notice a very important thing missing. No, not the toys, they’ve never been in this particular cereal. Look closer. BuzzBee, the lovable bee mascot, is gone. General Mills announced that Honey Nut Cheerios boxes […]
By Emily Flitter; Editing by Howard Goller, Bill Trott, and Lisa Shumaker15 March 2017 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Seventeen congressional Republicans signed a resolution on Wednesday vowing to seek “economically viable” ways to stave off global warming, challenging the stated views of President Donald Trump, who has called climate change a hoax. Republicans Elise Stefanik […]
By Karl Mathiesen9 March 2017 (Climate Change News) – The U.S. administration is seeking a fast-track appeal against a climate change lawsuit brought by 21 young people. Jeffrey Wood, a temporary Trump appointee at the Justice Department and recently a fossil fuel lobbyist,3 called on the federal court in Oregon to send the case to […]
11 March 2017 (White Wolf Pack) – Thousands of Native American demonstrators and their supporters marched to the White House to voice outrage at the Dakota Access Pipeline project. The protest follows months of demonstrations in a remote part of North Dakota, where the Standing Rock Sioux tribe demonstrated in an attempt to stop the […]
By Jennifer A Dlouhy14 March 2017 (Bloomberg) – President Donald Trump is set to sign a sweeping directive to dramatically shrink the role climate change plays in decisions across the government, ranging from appliance standards to pipeline approvals, according to a person familiar with the administration’s plan. The order, which could be signed this week, […]
By Jeremy Berke 10 March 2017 (Business Insider) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received an unusually warm reception of his keynote address at an energy industry conference in Texas on Thursday evening. “No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and just leave them there,” Trudeau said in his address […]
By Coral Davenport7 March 2017 WASHINGTON (The New York Times) – Days after the Senate confirmed him as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference and was asked about addressing a group that probably wanted to eliminate his agency. “I think it’s justified,” he responded, to cheers. […]
By Josh Voorhees6 March 2017 (Slate) – […] The two statements had plenty more in common than simply the topic. A snippet from the Exxon release: ExxonMobil is strategically investing in new refining and chemical-manufacturing projects in the U.S. Gulf Coast region to expand its manufacturing and export capacity. The company’s Growing the Gulf expansion […]
