By Karen Savage 2 July 2018 (Climate Liability News) – Rhode Island is suing 21 oil and gas companies, state attorney general Peter Kilmartin announced on Monday, becoming the first U.S. state to attempt to hold the industry responsible for climate change-driven damages. “For a very long time, there has been this perception that ‘Big […]
By Jason Samenow 6 July 2018 (The Washington Post) – Record-crushing heat is likely in Southern California through Saturday from the same deadly heat dome that has torched the central and eastern United States and parts of Canada over the past week.“Today [Friday] will be one for the record books,” the National Weather Service office […]
By Jason Samenow 5 July 2018 (The Washington Post) – From the normally mild summer climes of Ireland, Scotland and Canada to the scorching Middle East, numerous locations in the Northern Hemisphere have witnessed their hottest weather ever recorded over the past week.Large areas of heat pressure or heat domes scattered around the hemisphere led […]
By Dartunorro Clark 5 July 2018 (NBC News) – Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt, who has faced mounting public outcry over multiple ethics scandals, has resigned from his position, President Donald Trump announced Thursday.In a pair of tweets, Trump said that Pruitt had offered his resignation and that the president had accepted.”I have accepted […]
By Spencer Dale 13 June 2018(BP) – At first blush, some of last year’s data might seem a little disappointing. Growth in overall energy demand is up; gains in energy intensity are down. Coal consumption grew for the first time in four years. And, perhaps most striking of all, carbon emissions are up after three […]
By Tom Porter 3 July 2018 (Newsweek) – A woman confronted Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt in a Washington, D.C., restaurant on Monday in the latest public confrontation between a member of the public and a Trump administration official. Teacher Kristin Mink posted the video of the incident on Facebook. While holding her young […]
2 July 2018 (Desdemona Despair) – Wildfire season in the U.S. is off to an active start. The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) reports that more than 2.5 million acres have burned already, making this the fourth biggest season since 2008, just behind the year 2015, which turned out to be the worst season on […]
2 July 2018 (Silencing Science Tracker) – The U.S. Department of the Treasury removed references to “climate change” from its 2017 sustainability report. Notably, in a departure from the department’s 2016 report, the 2017 version no longer lists “climate change resilience” as a goal. The 2017 version also omits discussion — which had appeared in […]
GUINDA, California, 1 July 2018 (AP) – Evacuations were ordered as dry, hot winds fueled a wildfire burning out of control Sunday in rural Northern California, sending a stream of smoke some 75 miles (120 kilometers) south into the San Francisco Bay Area.The fast-moving blaze that broke out Saturday in western Yolo County charred at […]
28 June 2018 (We Can Solve This) – As a Congressman, Jim Bridenstine spent years as a vocal climate change denialist. It took him less than a month leading NASA to change his mind. #YEARSproject We Can Solve This
