The Trump Administration Just Launched a “Brazen Attack” on Clean Air Standards
The demands showed a marked shift from 2012, when automakers, two of which had just received massive taxpayer-funded federal bailouts, agreed to increase standards after months of negotiations with federal and California regulators. But by 2016, fuel prices had fallen from a record high national average of $3.60 per gallon four years earlier, and Americans…
Supreme Court Says Kids Can Sue Trump Over Climate Change
Youth plaintiffs, attorneys, and staff from Our Children’s Trust at the federal courthouse in Eugene after a hearing in the Juliana v. United States climate change lawsuit in June.Robin Loznak via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration’s effort to stop a…
President Trump Just Threatened a Government Shutdown—Again. And Blamed Democrats—Again.
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to force a government shutdown if Democrats don’t cave to his demands for stricter immigration policies, including building his long-promised border wall. “I would be willing to ‘shut down’ government if the Democrats do not give us the votes…
Trump’s EU Deal Won’t Do a Thing to Help Soybean Farmers
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump may have thing for soybean farmers—understandably, because the map of US soybean production tacks closely with that of the president’s support in the 2016 election. On Tuesday, he plucked $12 billion out of the federal Treasury to aid farmers ailing from severe price…
During a Historic Heat Wave, Researchers Make the Case for Sustainable Cooling
Charlie Kaijo/Tampa Bay Times via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Amid the hottest summer on record for various regions across the globe, a team of researchers affiliated with the United Nations released a report calling on entrepreneurs and politicians to fund affordable ways for people to cool off…
Starbucks Banning Straws Won’t Clean Up the Ocean, but It’s Still a Big Deal
StockSnap 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. To have an honest conversation about the ocean plastics crisis, one must accept two hard truths. The first is that the situation is dire: Every year, more than 8 million metric…