Republican PR Firm Ends Controversial Contract With EPA
Simon Edelman/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Republican PR firm that was awarded a $120,000 EPA contract for media monitoring has pulled out of the deal, days after Mother Jones first revealed the controversial arrangement. The no-bid contract drew widespread scrutiny in recent days, in part because the for-profit firm, called…
Donald Trump Has Decided Global Warming Is No Longer a Threat to National Security
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a striking departure from the previous administration’s emphasis on the challenges posed by global warming, President Donald Trump’s first national security strategy does not list climate change as a threat to American interests. “With the strategy I am announcing today, we are declaring that…
Stolen Emails. Wikileaks. White Supremacists. Donald Trump. It All Happened in 2009.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Heads of StateWhat does a 2009 controversy involving climate scientists have in common with Russia’s cyberattacks during the 2016 election? Quite a lot, actually. Both incidents featured stolen emails, WikiLeaks, Donald Trump, and day after day of breathless, often inaccurate, media coverage. Eight years…
Trump’s Message to Tribes: Let Them Eat Yellowcake
Rick Bowmer/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Uranium, it’s now part of Navajo DNA. With over 500 abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation, people living near these mines are exposed daily…
Amazon Pretends to Care About Climate. Until It’s Time to Build a New Headquarters.
This story was originally published by The Huffington Post and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Amazon kicked off a bidding war for its second North American headquarters in September, the company laid out a vision of its perfect suitor. The ideal city would have more than a million people, mass transit, an…
Arctic Temperatures Are Rising So Fast Computers Don’t Believe They’re Real
Early this month, while preparing a report on US climate, experts at the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) noticed something odd: They were missing data from Utqiaġvik for all of 2017, and some of 2016. It turns out the temperatures recorded at Utqiaġvik over that time were warmer than had ever seen before. So…