By Ed Crooks 26 October 2017 NEW YORK (Financial Times) – Companies from the technology and oil and gas industries have stepped into the debate over the future of the US electricity system, raising objections to the Trump administration’s plans for new rules to support coal-fired and nuclear power plants.Microsoft, Walmart, ExxonMobil, General Electric, and […]
By Jackie Wattles and Marilia Brocchetto 29 October 2017 (CNN) – Puerto Rico’s power authority is working to cancel a controversial contract it awarded to a small Montana-based utility company. Ricardo Ramos, the CEO of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, says he is “asking for a resolution” that would allow for the cancellation of […]
By Mythili Sampathkumar 24 October 2017 NEW YORK (The Independent) – An independent US government agency has said natural disasters have cost the country $350 billion in the last decade and that it is time for Donald Trump’s administration to address climate change before it starts costing the country more.The nonpartisan auditing agency Government Accountability […]
By Adam Voiland 25 October 2017Devastating wildfires burned through California’s wine country in October 2017, taking several lives and leaving thousands of people homeless. On 21 October 2017, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on the Terra satellite acquired this false-color image of the burn scars left by the Tubbs(upper left), Nuns […]
24 October 2017 (United Nations) – Hurricanes Irma, Harvey, and Maria may be over, but the devastating impact they had on the countries in their path continues, likewise the effects of successive earthquakes in Mexico, said senior United Nations officials Tuesday, calling for more action at all levels to manage disaster and climate risk and […]
By Artur Gorokh and Ryan Sherman 23 October 2017 (The Cornell Daily Sun) – It was in southern Utah in 2003 that Aron Ralston amputated his own arm to escape the boulder that had crushed him against the wall of a slot canyon. The only implement on hand was a small multi-tool, and in vain […]
By Umair Irfan 27 October 2017 (Vox) – Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is taking unprecedented steps to push scientists out of his office.Earlier this month, we learned via the Washington Post that Pruitt may soon be removing science advisers on advisory boards who have received grants from the EPA. “If we […]
By Leigh C. Anderson 23 October 2017 (Salon) – Between hosting Bill Nye the Science Guy and serving as CEO of The Planetary Society, Bill Nye’s career as a science educator means he is also, inherently, an activist when it comes to combating climate change.Nye joined Jeremy Binckes on Salon Talks to discuss his efforts […]
By Avery Anapol 19 October 2017(The Hill) – President Trump’s pick for a top environmental post once referred to belief in global warming as ”paganism” for “secular elites.”Kathleen Hartnett White, whom Trump nominated last week to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality, made the comment during a 2016 appearance on the online conservative […]
By Brittany Patterson 27 October 2017 GLEN CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Utah (Scientific American) – Like many places across the West, Lake Powell seems impossibly large, mythical almost, with its rich red rock canyon walls standing in dramatic juxtaposition to the expanse of cerulean below that seems to stretch on forever.Dramatic is an apt way […]
