Fire Scientists Are Sure of Only One Thing: This Will Get Worse
Jose Luis Villegas/Sacramento Bee Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Wired. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Subtract out the conspiracists and the willfully ignorant and the argument marshaled by skeptics against global warming, roughly restated, assumes that scientists vastly overstate the consequences of pumping greenhouse…
Trump Takes to Twitter to Defend His China Tariffs
Matt Rourke/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on $200 billion worth of imported Chinese goods has been widely unpopular. Even so, on Wednesday, Trump decided to up the ante: He ordered his administration to consider raising the rate from 10 percent to 25…
California’s Huge Wildfires Will Likely Have “Serious Health Effects” All Over the West
Mark McKenna/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As climate change helps push up the number of wildfires in the western US, communities face losing lives and properties to the flames. But another threat also looms…
The Trump Administration Just Launched a “Brazen Attack” on Clean Air Standards
The demands showed a marked shift from 2012, when automakers, two of which had just received massive taxpayer-funded federal bailouts, agreed to increase standards after months of negotiations with federal and California regulators. But by 2016, fuel prices had fallen from a record high national average of $3.60 per gallon four years earlier, and Americans…
The Most Devastating Pictures From the Last 72 Hours of Fire in California
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update, July 29, 5:28 p.m. ET: A local official has confirmed that a sixth person was found dead in the Carr Fire, according to the Associated Press. At least five people have been killed in northern California’s still-growing Carr Fire, including two children and their…
Brock Turner Only Wanted “Outercourse,” Lawyer Argues In Sexual Assault Appeal
Screenshot via Oxforddictionaries.com Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A lawyer for Brock Turner argued this week that his client shouldn’t have been convicted of intending to commit rape. His reasoning is that Turner only wanted “outercourse” with the woman he sexually assaulted. Turner, of course, is the former Stanford University student who…