Hurricane Florence’s Forecasted Path Includes About 9 Toxic Waste Sites
This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Environmental Protection Agency is monitoring nine hazardous waste sites in the Carolinas in the event that Hurricane Florence unleashes toxic chemicals. “EPA Regions 3 and 4 are closely monitoring the projected path of Hurricane Florence,” an EPA spokesperson told HuffPost in a…
Republicans Waited a Year to Hold FEMA Hearings. Just In Time for Hurricane Season.
Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) speaks with Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) during a House Oversight Committee hearing.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Congressional Democrats’ months-long effort to wrangle the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency before the House Oversight Committee experienced another setback this week as a hearing…
Undaunted by Trump, Thousands of Climate Activists Are Meeting to Plan Their Next Move
California Gov. Jerry BrownHector Amezcua/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A month after President Donald Trump pledged to pull the United States from the landmark 2015 Paris climate change pact meant to curb global carbon emissions, California Gov. Jerry Brown seized the leadership role and announced that San Francisco would host the…
Why North Carolina Won’t Evacuate Its Beloved Wild Horses During the Hurricane
“They have really good instincts,” Puckett said. “These horses have lived in this area for 500 years. We can already see now, they’re starting to group together. They know where the high ground is. They know where to go.” There are other groups of wild horses in the state as well, but Puckett said it’s…
FEMA is About to Get Slammed by Florence
Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A year after the most destructive hurricane season in American history stretched the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s resources to capacity, the government agency charged with administrating disaster relief has to prepare for the strongest storm to hit the East Coast in over a decade. …
National Park Officials Scrubbed Climate Change From Key Report
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke speaks to President Donald Trump during the National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony in Washington, DC on Nov. 30, 2017. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Reveal. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Park officials scrubbed all…