Environment
Environment
Anything related to the environment, the EPA, climate change and extreme weather.
Saturday 30 March 2019
Obama's withdrawals were clearly intended to extend indefinitely "and therefore be revocable only by an act of Congress," the judge wrote.
Friday 22 March 2019
But it’s hard to see it as inherently more newsworthy than the flooding in Nebraska. Especially given that the flooding [...] bears the fingerprints of climate change.
Thursday 21 March 2019
Heavy rainfall and rapid snowmelt have caused catastrophic flooding across the Missouri River Basin, and three-fourths of Nebraska's 93 counties have declared an emergency
Tuesday 19 March 2019
Pence will visit Nebraska Tuesday to survey the damage caused by historic flooding responsible for killing at least three people.
Saturday 16 March 2019
It is not unusual for the Midwest to experience spring flooding as ice thaws. But the past week’s widespread devastation was months in the making, as a cold winter left the ground frozen and not absorbent
Friday 15 March 2019
At this time the power house of the dam remains standing and a small portion of the bridge on the Boyd County side of the river is visible.
Tuesday 26 February 2019
...designating more than one million acres of wilderness for environmental protection and permanently reauthorizing a federal program to pay for conservation measures.
Monday 25 February 2019
Appearing at McConnell’s office marks the first time the youth climate advocates have used their tactics at a Republican office in Washington.
‘This is like assembling a panel of gravity sceptics who insist it’s safe to jump off tall buildings,’ says Nasa scientist
Wednesday 20 February 2019
The president tweeted that he was cutting off disaster assistance to wildfire survivors to punish California officials. But no record of such an order exists.
Monday 11 February 2019
Thursday 7 February 2019
In very broad strokes, the Green New Deal legislation [...] sets goals for some drastic measures to cut carbon emissions across the economy, from electricity generation to transportation to agriculture.
Monday 28 January 2019
Joshua Tree was among the parks hit hardest by the shutdown, with reports of visitors defacing rocks with graffiti, camping illegally, and cutting down trees that have been around for centuries.
The decision could complicate acting agency chief Andrew Wheeler's hopes for Senate confirmation.
Wednesday 16 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 26
“This is an outrageous step, and the justifications provided ... are farcical and make it clear that the administration cares only about the impacts on its favorite industry and not its workers, their families, and ordinary Americans”
Thursday 10 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 20
White House officials considered diverting emergency aid from storm- and fire-ravaged Puerto Rico, Florida, Texas and California to build a border barrier, perhaps under an emergency declaration.
They are also chopping down trees, setting illegal fires, and graffitiing rocks.
Wednesday 9 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 19
Thursday 3 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 13
‘The more carbon-based fuels you can introduce into the developing world, the cleaner the environment gets,’ insisted the founder of a site that fights pollution regulations.
Friday 28 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 7
"What has changed now is the administration's attitude towards public health,"
Tuesday 25 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 4
Saturday 15 December 2018
The deal [...] will ultimately require every country in the world to follow a uniform set of standards for measuring their planet-warming emissions and tracking their climate policies.
Friday 14 December 2018
And two days later, Platte River Power Authority, one of Xcel’s competitors in Colorado, announced it would eliminate all carbon emissions by 2030.
Wednesday 12 December 2018
In addition to Arches and Canyonlands, the Bureau of Land Management leased public lands for fracking near Bears Ears, Canyons of the Ancients and Hovenweep national monuments and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
Tuesday 11 December 2018
...limiting the types of waterways that fall under federal protection to major waterways, their tributaries, adjacent wetlands and a few other categories.
Monday 10 December 2018
At a meeting to coordinate climate action, the nations thwarted recognition of a recent report expressing the urgency of reducing emissions
Saturday 8 December 2018
Records reveal controversy-prone Pruitt networked and arranged friendly media interviews on personal account
Tuesday 4 December 2018
Saturday 1 December 2018
At the G-20, 19 nations agreed to support the Paris accord on fighting climate change with the United States the lone holdout.
Friday 30 November 2018
The Trump administration has authorized five companies to "incidentally, but not intentionally, harass marine mammals" by using seismic air guns to search for oil and gas in the Atlantic Ocean.
The booming quake hit about 8:30 a.m. local time some 10 miles northeast of Anchorage, at a depth of 21 miles
Wednesday 28 November 2018
Asked why he was sceptical of a global warming report published by his own government, the US president gave a rambling response, much of it not backed by evidence, in which he blamed forest management, “small” oceans and China over the issue.
Tuesday 27 November 2018
“I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me.”
“One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we’re not necessarily such believers,” Trump said. “You look at our air and our water, and it’s right now at a record clean.”
She also claimed that the report was not “data-driven.”
In past interviews with President Trump’s favorite cable-news show, the then-EPA chief’s team chose the topics for interviews, and knew the questions in advance.
Saturday 24 November 2018
Nearly every major newspaper led with an article about the report.
Friday 23 November 2018
Scientists are more certain than ever that climate change is already affecting the United States — and that it is going to be very expensive.
Wednesday 21 November 2018
Sunday 18 November 2018
"I perhaps wouldn't compare Finland and California climate-wise..."
...“in five years, everyone will know the Earth is flat” and the knowledge will bring about a kind of “societal collapse” because everything stems from a spherical understanding of the Earth.
Saturday 17 November 2018
...promising to help the state recover but repeating his disputed view that forest management was to blame for the fire
Friday 16 November 2018
Trump spontaneously spilled the news while introducing Wheeler [...] during a Medal of Freedom ceremony at the White House.
Thursday 15 November 2018
Trump’s response to natural disasters has typically varied depending on the partisan makeup of the state or region affected, and his initial reaction to the wildfires in California — a largely Democratic state — was no exception.
Sunday 11 November 2018
Saturday 10 November 2018
Trump’s original tweet, his first public remarks on the California wildfires that have killed 25 people and destroyed thousands of homes, contained no words of sympathy for the victims.
Friday 9 November 2018
Experts say that key EPA proposals would meddle with the research process and endanger decades of protective health rules.
Monday 5 November 2018
The interior secretary continued to work on issues regarding his Montana land holdings in 2017 despite a one-year recusal.
Wednesday 24 October 2018
...a major victory for the oil industry and a blow to conservation groups that fought it
Tuesday 23 October 2018
It’s the second time the high court has paused a climate change-related case.
"We’re not asking for money. Instead, we’re asking the court to order the government to develop and implement a National Climate Recovery Plan based on the best available science."
Monday 22 October 2018
The GOP remains dead set against doing anything about climate change, against any policy that would threaten the profits of fossil fuel companies.
But front-line, hardcore denialism of the “it’s a hoax” variety has largely receded to the base.
Wednesday 17 October 2018
...he has a "natural instinct for science" that informs his understanding of climate change and allows him to see through the political bias that he accused some scientists of holding.
Monday 15 October 2018
Trump backed off his long-held claim that global warming is a hoax. But he also made several new assertions unsupported by science.
Monday 8 October 2018
From rising sea levels to more devastating droughts to more damaging storms, the report makes brutally clear that warming will make the world worse for us in the forms of famine, disease, economic tolls, and refugee crises.
Friday 28 September 2018
Team Trump’s take is more or less, there’s nothing more we can do here, might as well let the president’s buddies cash in.
Thursday 27 September 2018
“Everything from research on chemicals and health, to peer-review testing to data analysis would inevitably suffer”
Wednesday 22 August 2018
Over the past decade, as Earth has warmed, global shipping companies have increasingly eyed the Arctic as a way to cut precious — and expensive — travel time.
Tuesday 21 August 2018
Fire dep't had to pay twice as much to lift throttling during wildfire response.
The Trump administration has hailed its overhaul of federal pollution restrictions on coal-burning power plants as creating new jobs, eliminating burdensome government regulations and ending what President Trump has long described as a “war on coal.”
Friday 10 August 2018
The surge in fire activity has led California to call for help to at least 17 other states and two countries.
Monday 6 August 2018
“We have plenty of water to fight these wildfires, but let’s be clear: It’s our changing climate that is leading to more severe and destructive fires”
Thursday 2 August 2018
...significantly weakening one of President Barack Obama’s signature policies to combat global warming.
Thursday 19 July 2018
The full changes will be published in coming days in the Federal Register, at which time public comment will open for a 60-day period.
Tuesday 10 July 2018
His legal philosophy was clear: In the absence of explicit instructions from Congress, any far-reaching effort by the E.P.A. to tackle environmental problems should be met with deep skepticism by the courts.
Friday 6 July 2018
The E.P.A.’s new acting administrator, Andrew Wheeler, will pick up where Mr. Pruitt left off, working to scale back rules on power plant emissions, vehicle standards and water pollution.
Monday 2 July 2018
Some suspect, however, that the changes were made by agency employees looking to keep the Obama-era, climate-focused program below the radar and avoid drawing a new president’s ire.
Tuesday 22 May 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency is barring The Associated Press, CNN and the environmental-focused news organization E&E from a national summit on harmful water contaminants.
Monday 14 May 2018
The intervention by Scott Pruitt’s aides came after one White House official warned the findings would cause a ‘public relations nightmare.'
Tuesday 24 April 2018
Pruitt said the change, long sought by chemical manufacturers and fossil fuel companies, would increase transparency in the agency’s decision-making by requiring all underlying data used in scientific studies to be made publicly available.
Critics ... said the policy shift is designed to restrict the agency from citing peer-reviewed public-health studies that use patient medical records that must be kept confidential under patient privacy laws.
Monday 2 April 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency signed off last March on a Canadian energy company’s pipeline-expansion plan at the same time that the E.P.A. chief, Scott Pruitt, was renting a condominium linked to the energy company’s powerful Washington lobbying firm.
...saying that it may revoke the state's ability under the Clean Air Act to impose stricter standards than the federal government sets for vehicle emissions.
Pruitt announced Monday that he would revoke Obama-era standards requiring cars and light trucks sold in the United States to average more than 50 miles per gallon by 2025
Wednesday 28 March 2018
Employees crafted the email ... on the basis of controversial — and scientifically unsound — statements that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has made about the current state of climate research.
Thursday 15 March 2018
Similarly, under a section about "Emerging Threats," the document cites cybersecurity and terrorism. There are no references to global warming, rising sea levels, extreme weather events or any other term related to the potential impact of rising surface temperatures.
Friday 9 March 2018
Kelly, the White House chief of staff, has killed an effort by the head of the Environmental Protection Agency to stage public debates challenging climate change science
Tuesday 6 March 2018
The Trump administration will now consider letting hunting prizes from animals listed on the Endangered Species Act (such as lions and elephants) back into the U.S on a "case by case" basis
OMB gathered data and analysis on “major” federal regulations ... between 2006 and 2016... The final tally, reported in 2001 dollars: Aggregate benefits: $219 to $695 billion. Aggregate costs: $59 to $88 billion.
Saturday 3 March 2018
Trump on Friday tapped a chemical industry insider to run the Environmental Protection Agency office that oversees emergency response to hazardous spills and cleanups of the nation’s most toxic sites.
Friday 2 March 2018
“Please see attached for a shapefile and pdf of a map depicting a boundary change for the southeast portion of the Bears Ears monument,” ... Adopting this map would “resolve all known mineral conflicts”
Monday 26 February 2018
Temperatures may have soared as high as 35 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) at the pole ... which is more than 50 degrees (30 degrees Celsius) above normal.
Thursday 15 February 2018
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s security team decided last year he should fly first class to avoid confrontations with angry individuals on planes and in airports
Sunday 4 February 2018
Trump in October appointed Ms. White, a former Texas environmental regulator who has said that carbon dioxide should be considered the “gas of life” rather than a pollutant, to be the White House senior environmental adviser.
Friday 26 January 2018
The plan would change things such as how officials decide a pipeline route, how a proposed border wall with Mexico would be built and whether the National Park Service could object to a development that would impair tourists’ views from scenic parks such as the Grand Canyon.
Monday 22 January 2018
Government Shutdown Day 3
In a hit to the Trump administration, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that cases litigating the Clean Water Act should be heard by federal district courts.
Tuesday 9 January 2018
The change of course — just five days after Zinke announced the offshore drilling plan — highlights the political importance of Florida, where President Trump narrowly won the state’s 29 electoral votes in the 2016 election
Saturday 6 January 2018
"God Bless You Donald Trump for making this possible! The oil we drill just off your beach will pay 4 our entire show!"
Thursday 4 January 2018
The Trump administration said Thursday it would allow new offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all United States coastal waters, giving energy companies access to leases off California for the first time in decades and opening more than a billion acres in the Arctic and along the Eastern Seaboard.
Thursday 28 December 2017
The Trump administration is poised to roll back offshore drilling safety regulations that were put in place after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people and caused the worst oil spill in American history.
Sunday 24 December 2017
Friday 15 December 2017
Mr. Blutstein, in an interview, said he was taking aim at “resistance” figures in the federal government, adding that he hoped to discover whether they had done anything that might embarrass them or hurt their cause.
Monday 11 December 2017
The "Make Our Planet Great Again" grants are part of Macron's efforts to counter U.S. President Donald Trump on the climate change front.
Friday 8 December 2017
Fires raged on in much of Southern California on Friday, as fast-moving flames scorched more than 158,000 acres across four counties, blackening the air and forcing closures of schools and roadways.
Wednesday 6 December 2017
The coming days could continue to present new risks of additional wildfires, authorities warned. Charlie Beck, the Los Angeles police chief, said the region was facing “a multiday event,” adding: “This will not be the only fire.”
Monday 4 December 2017
Trump on Monday called for a nearly 90 percent reduction in the size of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument along with a nearly 50 percent reduction to the state’s Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.
Monday 20 November 2017
...clearing the last regulatory hurdle in a nine-year effort to build a line to carry thick crude oil from Alberta’s tar sands region to refineries on the Texas gulf coast.
Friday 17 November 2017
Wednesday 15 November 2017
The Trump administration plans to allow hunters to import trophies of elephants they killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia back to the United States, reversing a ban put in place by the Obama administration in 2014
Tuesday 7 November 2017
The US was among the first to sign the deal and put it into action under former President Barack Obama's executive order, which bypassed climate change deniers in Congress. But his executive action meant the Paris accord was not a legally binding treaty for the US, and paved the way for Mr Trump to withdraw.
Sunday 5 November 2017
Robert Phalen once claimed that children’s lungs need to breathe irritants so their bodies can learn to fight them.
Thursday 2 November 2017
The assessments are required by an act of Congress; the last one was published in 2014. Alley says this year's goes further in attributing changes in weather to the warming climate, especially weather extremes.
Sam Clovis, an early backer backer of President Donald Trump caught up in the special counsel’s Russia investigation, has withdrawn his nomination to be a top official in the Agriculture Department
The nominee repeatedly wrote “none” when asked by a key Senate Democrat about his academic credentials related to agricultural science.
Tuesday 31 October 2017
A large coalition of science organizations, science advocates, environmentalists, and politicians lined up in fierce opposition to the policy changes
Saturday 28 October 2017
Over the past several months, we've seen the EPA overhaul their website and replace climate pages without the word climate change.
Friday 20 October 2017
Republicans moved closer to opening oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with a Senate budget vote late Thursday
Thursday 12 October 2017
The appointment of Myers, a businessman and lawyer, breaks from the recent precedent of scientists leading the agency tasked with a large, complex and technically demanding portfolio.
Monday 9 October 2017
The Trump administration announced on Monday that it would take formal steps to repeal President Barack Obama’s signature policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions from power plants
At least 1,500 structures have been destroyed and 20,000 people evacuated
Tuesday 3 October 2017
But in a 2002 paper paid for by the American Chemistry Council and the pesticide industry group CropLife America, Dourson suggested that after six months, most children are no more sensitive to chemical toxicity than adults and that in some cases, they are even less sensitive. This idea places him well outside the scientific mainstream
Saturday 23 September 2017
Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt has met regularly with corporate executives from the automobile, mining and fossil fuel industries — in several instances shortly before making decisions favorable to those interest groups
Saturday 16 September 2017
The denial came after the Wall Street Journal reported ... that the administration may revise or craft a new climate deal and emissions standards rather than pull out altogether
Wednesday 13 September 2017
The DoD has found space to maneuver by separating the argument of climate change from the threats that more extreme sea states, wind and flooding can generate. Essentially, the DoD is moving forward by leaving the semantics of climate change to others.
Monday 11 September 2017
For scientists, drawing links between warming global temperatures and the ferocity of hurricanes is about as controversial as talking about geology after an earthquake.
But in Washington, where science is increasingly political, the fact that oceans and atmosphere are warming and that the heat is propelling storms into superstorms has become as sensitive as talking about gun control in the wake of a mass shooting.
Saturday 9 September 2017
From Day 1, the White House and its lackeys in certain federal agencies have been waging what amounts to a war on science, appointing people with few scientific credentials to key positions, defunding programs that could lead to a cleaner and safer environment and a healthier population, and, most ominously, censoring scientific inquiry that could inform the public and government policy.
Friday 8 September 2017
The storm might drop as much as 20 inches of rain in some areas. But it is the expected storm surge that most frightens officials across the state. Several counties expanded their evacuation orders to cover more ground, anticipating surges in some places as high as 12 feet if the storm hits at high tide.
In the eastern Caribbean, residents in Barbuda and St. Martin, islands that suffered extensive damage from Irma, wearily prepared for Hurricane Jose, a Category 4 storm that continued to strengthen late Friday and which could hit those islands within the next two days as a Category 5 hurricane.
About 50 million people across Mexico felt the earthquake, which had a magnitude of 8.2
Thursday 7 September 2017
The Park Service was not allowed to post anything about the tour on its Facebook page or social media accounts.
It is expected to hit the Florida Keys and South Florida by Saturday night.
Irma -- a Category 5 storm that has kept sustained winds of 180 mph longer than any other on record -- knocked out electricity a day earlier to more than 1 million customers in Puerto Rico as it churned off the US territory, and devastated smaller islands
Wednesday 6 September 2017
To state the obvious, these are potentially dangerous comments from Limbaugh, who is based in Palm Beach, Fla. He is encouraging listeners who might be in Irma's path not to take seriously the official guidance disseminated through the media.
Jones's contention is that the government — or, more precisely, the “deep state,” now that Trump is president — uses its “weather weapon” to stoke fear of climate change and promote a liberal agenda.
Tuesday 5 September 2017
With Texas still reeling from Hurricane Harvey and another storm barreling toward Florida, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is expected to run out of money by Friday
If Irma does make landfall as a Category 4 storm or stronger, it will be the first time on record that two storms of that strength hit the United States during the same weather season.
Monday 4 September 2017
...assigning final funding decisions to a former Trump campaign aide with little environmental policy experience.
Sunday 3 September 2017
Trump’s habit of singling out reporters for attacks is being adopted by his federal agencies, with the Environmental Protection Agency excoriating an Associated Press reporter in unusually personal terms on Sunday after the reporter wrote a story that cast the agency in an unfavorable light.
Saturday 2 September 2017
While Mr. Bridenstine has criticized NASA’s spending on global warming science, he has voiced support for some of the agency’s earth observation missions, particularly for studying extreme weather.
Friday 1 September 2017
A couple of weeks ago President Trump scrapped Obama-era rules, intended to reduce the risks posed by flooding, that established new construction standards for roads, housing and other infrastructure projects that receive federal dollars.
Tuesday 29 August 2017
A ProPublica and Texas Tribune investigation found last year that those who have overseen Houston’s flooding issues discounted scientists’ warnings as “anti-development.” In the coming months and years, the city may pay a high price for such shortsightedness.
Even after it became a widely accepted scientific fact that wetlands can soak up large amounts of flood water, the city continued to pave over them.
Monday 28 August 2017
More specifically, Harvey is what climate change looks like in a world that has decided, over and over, that it doesn’t want to take climate change seriously.
"If we don't begin releasing now, the volume of uncontrolled water around the dams will be higher and have a greater impact on the surrounding communities"
Sunday 27 August 2017
As the effects of climate change play out, the risks posed by storms like Katrina and Harvey only stand to get worse.
Parts of Harris County, which includes Houston, have seen more than 20 inches of rain in the last 24 hours.
Saturday 26 August 2017
And in mid-August, in the midst of hurricane season and less than two weeks prior to Hurricane Harvey making landfall, Trump rescinded another Executive Order put in place to protect communities from the devastation wreaked by natural disasters.
EO 13690, signed by President Obama in 2015, required all federal investments involving floodplains to meet higher flood risk management standards,
Images of downed trees and lamposts and darkened streets began trickling in early in the day, after the storm roared ashore at 10 p.m. Central time Friday with 130 mph winds — the strongest hurricane to hit the United States since Wilma in 2005.
Friday 25 August 2017
Extremely dangerous Hurricane Harvey intensified into a powerful Category 2 hurricane overnight Thursday.
Thursday 24 August 2017
On this trip it was able to keep up an average speed of 14 knots despite sailing through ice that was over one metre thick in places.
...the secretary recommended reducing the size of Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, as well as Oregon’s Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
Sunday 20 August 2017
The charter for the 15-person Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment ... expires Sunday. On Friday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s acting administrator, Ben Friedman, informed the committee’s chair that the agency would not renew the panel.
Saturday 19 August 2017
...an unlikely surge of Republican lawmakers has begun taking steps to distance themselves from the GOP’s hard line on climate change.
Wednesday 16 August 2017
Among other things, he is rolling back an Obama-era order that infrastructure projects, like roads and bridges, be designed to survive rising sea levels and other consequences of climate change.
Friday 11 August 2017
“Science should not be something that’s just thrown about to try to dictate policy in Washington, D.C.”
Doors to the floor are now frequently locked, and employees have to have an escort to gain entrance. Some employees say they are also told to leave behind their cellphones when they meet with Mr. Pruitt, and are sometimes told not to take notes.
Tuesday 8 August 2017
Trump could quietly publish the special report this year and the broader assessment when the final version is due in 2018. He could also make the case that the findings should be tempered by the economic effects that fighting climate change could have on American workers and businesses. Or, as some scientists fear, he could try to alter or suppress the special report before it is actually released.
Monday 7 August 2017
The National Academy of Sciences has signed off on the draft report, and the authors are awaiting permission from the Trump administration to release it.
Sunday 6 August 2017
During the Obama administration, the Interior Department seized on the issue of climate change and temporarily banned new coal leases on public lands as it examined the consequences for the environment.
Trump, along with roundly questioning climate change, has moved quickly to wipe out those measures with the support of coal companies and other commercial interests.
Friday 4 August 2017
Under the terms of the Paris deal, the U.S. can’t fully withdraw until Nov. 4, 2020 — one day after the next presidential election.
Monday 24 July 2017
Trump has responded to this problem with what Walter Williams calls an “anti-analytic” strategy. The administration’s budget has proposed major cuts to programs of policy-relevant scientific research on climate and the environment
Sunday 23 July 2017
“His rejection of Paris was a bell in the night; it has inspired so many people to come out and stand up.”
Wednesday 12 July 2017
The giant block is estimated to cover an area of roughly 6,000 sq km
Friday 7 July 2017
The growing international isolation of the United States under President Trump was starkly apparent Friday as the leaders of major world economies mounted a nearly united opposition front against Washington on issues ranging from climate to free trade.
Monday 3 July 2017
...the U.S. Court of Appeals ... concluded that the EPA had the right to reconsider a 2016 rule limiting methane and smog-forming pollutants emitted by oil and gas wells but could not delay the effective date while it sought to rewrite the regulation.
Friday 30 June 2017
Though there are various records laws that prevent the government from completely purging information gathered by its agencies, the government can take information offline. That means the data is available, but only in one physical location.
Tuesday 27 June 2017
The current rule, known as Waters of the United States (WOTUS), unambiguously gives EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers authority that many think the agencies already possessed under the Clean Water Act.
Wednesday 7 June 2017
China has not explicitly criticized the US decision to leave the agreement. But Xi's meeting with Brown could easily be interpreted as a thinly veiled message to the Trump administration: China believes climate change is a problem and doesn't think the US is doing enough to solve it.
Monday 5 June 2017
As the head of the embassy ... it was Rank’s responsibility to deliver a formal notification of the U.S. intention to withdraw from the climate pact. ... Rank was unwilling to deliver the demarche.
Saturday 3 June 2017
“In some ways,” he added, “it’s become yet another of the long list of litmus test issues that determine whether or not you’re a good Republican.”
The French video goes on to refute the main arguments in the US video using new slides with text edits.
Friday 2 June 2017
In the years before running for president, he called it “nonexistent,” “mythical” and a “a total con job.”
“I don’t think we’re going to change our ongoing efforts to reduce those emissions in the future either, so hopefully, people can keep it in perspective”
In terms of politics, this means that Trump’s abandonment of the Paris Agreement ... could well be a live issue during the next presidential campaign.
Pence says the climate deal would have burdened taxpayers and he doesn’t understand why Democrats have made the issue a priority.
Thursday 1 June 2017
Trump frequently relied on dubious facts and unbalanced claims to make his case that the agreement would hurt the U.S. economy
The new coalition, called the United States Climate Alliance, will serve as a way for states interested in dealing with climate change to coordinate
“Make our planet great again.”
Incidentally, NOAA Is predicting an above-average hurricane season this year. Trump's proposed budget has targeted both agencies for cuts.
The party simply does not believe climate change is a serious problem.
The leaders of France, Germany and Italy said in a joint statement that they regretted the United States' decision to withdraw from the accord, but affirmed "our strongest commitment" to implement its measures
Trump said he wanted to negotiate a better deal for the United States
There were times when on-air stupidity of this sort was ignorable, back when presidents could identify propaganda.
Wednesday 31 May 2017
Trump’s move marks the second time in two decades that the United States has negotiated, signed but then spurned a major international climate pact following a change of party control in the White House.
Saturday 27 May 2017
While the declaration included remarkable language highlighting that the U.S. stood apart, the other G7 members expressed some relief that Trump had not outright rejected the accord
Trump’s refusal to take a position while in Sicily has shaken the unity among the G7
Saturday 20 May 2017
...is the first known example under the Trump administration of an accused polluter — which has admitted violating the law — backing away from a proposed environmental settlement.
Monday 15 May 2017
“When you weigh the evidence across the different studies that have looked at this, it really does pretty strongly point the finger that organophosphate pesticides as a class are of significant concern to child neurodevelopment”
Friday 12 May 2017
The agreement will allow Pebble Limited Partnership to apply for a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers for the mine before EPA continues any work reviewing water issues in the area.
Wednesday 10 May 2017
...an Obama-era rule restricting methane emissions from drilling on public lands
Monday 8 May 2017
The 17 veterans argue that climate change poses a critical national security risk and say the U.S. must remain engaged in the international effort to fight it
Sunday 7 May 2017
...he would consider replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate
Friday 5 May 2017
Pruitt had been one of the most active state officials in bringing lawsuits against the agency he now leads, challenging federal environmental rules.
Saturday 29 April 2017
Tens of thousands of demonstrators, alarmed at what they see as a dangerous assault on the environment by the Trump administration, poured into the streets
Friday 28 April 2017
...its website would be “undergoing changes” to better represent the new direction the agency is taking, triggering the removal of several agency websites containing detailed climate data and scientific information.
Tuesday 25 April 2017
...the review has been specifically crafted to encompass national monuments in Utah: Grand Staircase-Escalante, which Clinton declared in 1996, and Bears Ears, which Obama declared last December.
Saturday 22 April 2017
“The oceans are rising, and so are we”
Tuesday 18 April 2017
Trump’s divided policy advisers will meet Tuesday afternoon to hash over whether Mr. Trump should withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris climate accord of 2015
Tuesday 11 April 2017
Donald Trump once said climate change was a “hoax” invented by the Chinese but the phenomenon could be responsible for flooding his own Florida properties.
Friday 7 April 2017
“For the rest of us,” added one longtime regional staffer, “there probably will be a significant rise in alcoholism.”
Tuesday 4 April 2017
His gift represents a small fraction, however, of the money the Park Service stands to lose if Trump's budget were adopted.
He also chose an agency with which he has had a fraught relationship.
Monday 3 April 2017
“Mr. Pruitt, are we supposed to believe that that's all a coincidence?” Wallace asked.
Sunday 2 April 2017
Less than a month ago, Pruitt said carbon emissions are not "a primary contributor" to global warming.
Wednesday 29 March 2017
It would prohibit the EPA from writing any regulation that uses science that is not publicly available.
But Democrats, environmentalists and health advocates say ... it would irresponsibly leave the EPA unable to write important regulatory protections, since the agency might not have the ability to release some parts of the scientific data underpinning them.
The EPA banned its spraying indoors to combat household bugs more than a decade ago. But only in recent years did the agency seek to ban its use in agriculture, after mounting scientific evidence that prenatal exposure can pose risks to fetal brain and nervous system development.
"We have definitively not received anything on banned words, not even orally. But people are doing a lot of reading into tea leaves. People are taking their own initiatives to not use certain words based on hints from transition people."
But the jobs he alluded to — hardy miners in mazelike tunnels with picks and shovels — have steadily become vestiges of the past.
Tuesday 28 March 2017
...with a sweeping directive telling agencies to stop trying to reduce the carbon pollution of electric utilities, oil and gas drillers and coal miners.
Sunday 26 March 2017
Deleted from the text was: “The United States is taking a leading role by advancing an ever-expanding suite of measures at home and abroad.”
Friday 24 March 2017
"Trump promised that Keystone XL pipeline would be built with American steel or it wouldn’t be built, period. He lied,"
The vote ... is the boldest indication yet of California’s plan to stand up to President Trump’s agenda.
Thursday 23 March 2017
It’s not a mandatory regulation, nor a “job killer.” We can only assume that it’s on the list because its strong connection with climate change mitigation.
The Trump administration will approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline by Monday
Wednesday 22 March 2017
The Senate voted Tuesday to abolish a rule restricting specific hunting practices on national wildlife refuges in Alaska — including trapping, baiting and aerial shooting
Under the 1996 law, any rule wiped off the books cannot be reinstated in a “substantially similar” form.
Thursday 16 March 2017
"But we ought to take all this stuff that comes out of the EPA that's brainwashing our kids, that is propaganda, things that aren't true, allegations."
Wednesday 15 March 2017
However, the president is leaving in place a waiver that lets California and other states enforce stricter rules within their borders — sidestepping, at least for now, an all-out climate change battle with blue states.
“Climate change is impacting stability in areas of the world where our troops are operating today”
Monday 13 March 2017
Much of the new model and data assimilation development work occurs at NOAA's OAR (Office of Atmospheric Research). Guess what organization is slated to take a 26% reduction in the proposed budget plan?
Saturday 11 March 2017
The calls to Pruitt’s main line, 202-564-4700, reached such a high volume by Friday that agency officials created an impromptu call center
Thursday 9 March 2017
Pruitt's view is at odds with the opinion of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Thursday 2 March 2017
“Lo and behold, the documents Scott Pruitt wanted to keep hidden have confirmed our suspicion that he used his personal email address to conduct official state business”
Wednesday 1 March 2017
Trump is tearing into the EPA’s budget by a reported 24 percent
Pruitt said there needs to be more debate on how much human impact is responsible for climate change.
Tuesday 28 February 2017
The 2015 regulation, also known as Waters of the United States, asserts federal power over small waterways such as wetlands, headwaters and ponds, requiring Clean Water Act permits for any actions that could harm or pollute them.
Monday 20 February 2017
...the new administration is determined to promote fossil-fuel production and economic activity even when those activities collide with some environmental safeguards.
Saturday 18 February 2017
The new administrator and President Donald Trump are expected to move quickly to begin unraveling the agency's rules on water and climate change.
Friday 17 February 2017
Democrats have blasted the nominee for his push to roll back regulations and his past statements challenging the science behind climate change
Thursday 16 February 2017
Every day, NASA has dutifully posted updates on Twitter (@nasaclimate) and Facebook pertaining to climate change science
The bill quashes the Office of Surface Mining's Stream Protection Rule, a regulation to protect waterways from coal mining waste that officials finalized in December.
Wednesday 15 February 2017
Below that is the single directive the bill would require, if passed: “The Environmental Protection Agency shall terminate on December 31, 2018.”
Monday 13 February 2017
Pruitt’s history of suing the EPA — as well as his rejection of the mainstream consensus on climate change — have made him a controversial pick to lead the agency.
Tuesday 7 February 2017
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe, whose reservation is adjacent to the line's route, has said it would fight the decision but was not available for comment on Tuesday.
Thursday 2 February 2017
A mention of carbon pollution as a cause of climate change has also been removed and adaptation has been emphasized, indicating an attempt to separate the cause of climate change from the response.
But this week, Chaffetz decided to yank the bill after a fierce backlash from hunters, sportsmen and women, and conservationists on both the left and the right. Privatizing public land, it turns out, is a lot harder than it sounds.
Wednesday 1 February 2017
Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., displayed a bottle of brownish water he said came from a constituent's well near a surface coal mine. He challenged lawmakers to drink from it and said the stream rule was one of the only safety measures protecting people in coal country.
Tuesday 31 January 2017
Due to a controversial change this month to the House of Representatives’ rules, the sale does not have to make money for the federal government.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has fought against construction of the pipeline for months, with members and supporters living on the site, trying to block construction. The tribe said it will continue its battle
Wednesday 25 January 2017
If the website goes dark, years of work we have done on climate change will disappear
Twitter feed called @AltNatParkSer gained about 170,000 followers overnight, and was also publishing information about climate change and other issues
Tuesday 24 January 2017
Since Trump was inaugurated on Friday, the White House website has already wiped away all mention of climate change.
EPA memo says agency is not allowed to issue press releases, add new content on websites, or post on social media
The moves are likely to spark a new fight with environmentalists.