Seething Senators Call Trump’s Environmental Plans Literally Toxic and “Dangerously off the Rails”
President Trump with EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler in 2018.Win McNamee/Getty This story was originally published by the Guardian and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Senate Democrats are charging that the Trump administration has gone “dangerously off the rails,” in failing to implement landmark legislation meant to protect people from toxic chemicals. In…
Armed Extremists Just Escalated Oregon’s Fight Over Climate Legislation
A member of the Three Percent militia in Indiana.Jeremy Hogan/SOPA/ZUMA The Three Percenters’ Oregon chapter has gotten involved in the Oregon standoff between Republican state senators, who fled the state to avoid the passage of cap-and-trade legislation, and the Democratic majority who wanted to put the measure to a vote. The paramilitary group, known for…
The 2020 Democrats are Running on an Outmoded Obama Climate Policy
Robert Nickelsberg, Getty Images All the candidates seeking the Democrats’ 2020 presidential nomination have offered climate change platforms that share a few basic tenets, yet news outlets seem to ask them the same two questions again and again: Would you rejoin the Paris climate agreement? Would you reinstate Obama-era climate rules, including the Clean Power…
NOAA Is Looking for Beaches to Hold 70 Rotting Whale Caracasses. Any Volunteers?
This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Local organizations have struggled to dispose of 70 dead gray whales that have washed up along America’s West Coast. Now, a federal agency is turning to private property owners for help. The tragic die-off is the highest in 20 years. Scientists believe most…
Climate Change Deniers Aren’t Getting Very Far With America’s Judges
Ronen Tivony/SOPA/LightRocket/Getty This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In September 2017, San Francisco experienced its hottest day on record, with temperatures reaching a searing 106 degrees. Weeks later, the city joined Oakland to announce it would sue five major fossil fuel firms—BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips—for the costs…
A Scientist Took Climate Change Deniers to Court and Wrested an Apology From Them
Scientist Michael Mann attends the New York screening of the HBO documentary, “How To Let Go Of The World And All The Things Climate Can’t Change” in New York City.Slaven Vlasic/Getty/HBO This story was originally published by National Observer and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2011, renowned scientist Michael E. Mann sued…