This California City Is About to Put Big Oil’s Bad Science on Trial
Ariel Waldman/Flickr Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt had a vision: Scientists would clash onstage in a televised debate over the already-established science of climate change as one side poked for weaknesses in the…
Coal Country Rebelled Against Trump’s Candidate Last Night. Here’s Why.
Brian Cahn/ Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A few days before Democratic candidate Conor Lamb eked out a narrow lead over Republican opponent Rick Saccone in Pennsylvania’s special election for the House, President Trump was on the campaign trail repeating a familiar tune to crowds of his supporters. “By the…
Climate Change Pushes Ticks Into Canada, Bringing Lyme Disease (and Confusion) With Them
Patrick Pleul/DPA/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Joanne Seiff, a resident of Manitoba, contracted Lyme disease a couple of years ago but didn’t remember pulling off the tick that bit her; nor did she have the telltale…
Thanks to Trump, This Senator Finally Gets Her Chance to Decimate Alaska’s Environmental Protections
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski had been a member of the United States Senate for 15 years. She’d pulled…
The Trump Administration’s New Environmental Justice Adviser Has a Plutonium Problem
iStock/Getty Images Plus Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One year ago, the man who founded the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice resigned. In a lengthy letter, Mustafa Ali asked newly sworn-in EPA Administrator…
Scott Pruitt Has Laid Bare the Growing Environmental Schism Within Christianity
Gage Skidmore/Flickr Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Pope Francis sparked a media frenzy in 2015 with the release of his second encyclical, Laudato Si. One of the highest forms of official Catholic Church teaching, the…