No Wonder Scott Pruitt Wanted a Chick-fil-A Franchise: They’re Both On Missions From God
Jebb Harris/The Orange County Register, Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Post on Tuesday dropped another bombshell about Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s attempts to exploit his office for personal gain. He had his staff arrange a call with the chairman of Chick-fil-A, and later its legal…
The Messy Universe Inside Plants Looks a Lot Like the Messy Universe Inside People
Lynn Ketchum/Oregon State University Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In Corvallis, Oregon, Posy Busby works in a garden planted with 3,000 black cottonwood trees that represent 1,000 unique genetic specimens, each originally found somewhere on the…
NYT: Scott Pruitt Paid Coal Billionaire Cash for Courtside Basketball Seats
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. First-class flights totaling more than $105,000, a $43,000 secure phone booth, a $50-a-night condo linked to lobbyists, $1,560 on a dozen customized fountain pens, and now a pair of $130 basketball tickets purchased in cash from a billionaire coal executive. The list of controversial purchases by Environmental…
The World’s Richest Countries Beg Trudeau to Try and Control Trump
Bernd Von Jutrczenka/DPA/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by National Observer and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With less than two weeks to go before Canada hosts the world’s seven big economies, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is being urged to push the United States…
“We Have Done a Great Job”: What Trump Tweeted as Thousands of Puerto Ricans Died
Donald Trump tosses paper towels into a crowd in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, after Hurricane Maria.Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, researchers at Harvard published a new study showing that the death toll from Hurricane Maria was 75 times higher than what the government had previously reported. By…
This Case Could Be a Game Changer in Cities’ Lawsuits Against Big Oil
In 2015 an investigation by the Los Angeles Times and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism partially closed that gap, showing that oil companies like Exxon had acknowledged the planetary risks of their products as early as the 1980s. Attorneys general started asking questions. The oil companies said they saw malfeasance in all this, and it’s…