Ryan Zinke’s Real Legacy Is Rolling Back Environmental Protections and Cozying Up to Big Oil
In other words, the grand pivot never arrived. Theodore Roosevelt IV, a great-grandson of the late president who has blasted the interior secretary for invoking his ancestor, said Zinke’s “bad angels won out.” “He was marching lockstep with what the president wanted him to do,” Roosevelt said. “It’s unfortunate.” Zinke “disrespected Interior’s stewardship mission &…
Trump’s EPA Doesn’t Seem to Want to Punish Law-Breaking Polluters
VanderWolf-Images/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Under the Trump administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is more likely to give polluters a pass when they violate laws intended to keep the air healthy and…
What a Stock Market Crash Could Mean for the Climate
Richard Drew/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Let’s talk about the stock market. Pretty terrifying, huh? The big Christmas Eve dip plunged the US markets into “bear” territory—with declines of over 20 percent in the…
Remember That $20 Million Ocean Cleanup Project? It Isn’t Working.
Michel Porro/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The $20 million effort to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has hit a bit of a snafu. Organizers for The Ocean Cleanup, which launched the project…
The Worst Anti-Science BS of 2018
Donald Trump has a “natural instinct for science.”Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was a banner year in the war on science, as politicians, media figures, and celebrities used their platforms to promote pseudoscience and interfere with evidence-based policies. Here are five of the most egregious examples. And…
In Natural Disasters, a Disability Can Be a Death Sentence
And for many disabled people, getting out of their homes is only the beginning. Shelters often lack necessary equipment and medications for disabled people who do evacuate, like hearing aids, walkers, wheelchairs or ventilators, Ramirez said. The prospect of rebuilding a home that had been built around an individual disability can also be daunting and…