Report: Trump Administration Making Controversial “Expedited Plans” for Utah’s Grand Staircase
Mint Images/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. Federal authorities at Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument are moving forward to create new plans for managing the area, despite several legal challenges to the monument’s boundaries. Conservationists say they are…
America’s Newest Weather Satellite Is a Game-Changer for Forecasting Catastrophic Natural Events
United Launch Alliance Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by WIRED and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. 2017 was a grievously good year for cataclysms. Infernos engulfed not just California, which suffered its most destructive wildfire season on record, but the greater American West. A hyperactive…
The Warped Environmentalism of America’s Biggest Industrial Meat Producer
Mark Reinstein/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Justin Whitmore has the unenviable job of trying to make the nation’s biggest industrial meat company look virtuous. The 35-year-old former McKinsey consultant became Tyson Foods’ first sustainability chief in…
Scientists Are Freaking Out About “Crazy” Temperatures in the Arctic
Fedoseyev Lev/TASS/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. An alarming heatwave in the sunless winter Arctic is causing blizzards in Europe and forcing scientists to reconsider even their most pessimistic forecasts of climate change. Although it could…
Congress Just Got a Whole Lot of F’s on Their Environmental Report Card
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Congressional Republicans and Democrats have never been further apart on environmental issues. The top leadership in the GOP is comprised entirely of climate change deniers, while Democrats have aligned in opposition to President Trump’s agenda. But a report released today by the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) calibrates the distance between…
Scott Pruitt Is Gutting the EPA Because He Thinks It’s God’s Plan
Tom Williams/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scott Pruitt may be at the center of another Trump administration flight scandal over the skyrocketing costs of his first-class flights, but recently he’s been more likely to talk about how deeply his evangelical faith influences his work running the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt comes from…