The Trump Administration Scrubbed Climate Science From an Important New Report
During 2012’s Hurricane Sandy, a massive storm surge dislodged bricks on Liberty Island in New York, home of the Statue of Liberty.National Park Service Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Reveal and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. National Park Service officials have deleted every mention…
Scott Pruitt Can Relax, He’s Probably Not Friday’s News Dump
Shealah Craighead/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has allies in high places who are not willing to give up on him after weeks of damaging stories. On Friday, President Trump took to Twitter to deny reports that he would replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Pruitt, and…
The New York Times Just Reported That 5 EPA Employees Were Sidelined After Questioning Scott Pruitt
Chris Kleponis / CNP/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The New York Times is reporting that the Environmental Protection Agency quietly reassigned, demoted, or forced out at least five staffers—four career officials and one Trump appointee—after they objected to extravagant spending and travel requests made by Scott Pruitt, the agency’s…
If You Love Spending More on Gas, Trump Has Some Good News
Michael Ares/The Palm Beach Post/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency ended yet another key climate policy from the Obama era. EPA administrator Scott Pruitt signed a plan to roll back fuel economy standards that the EPA first finalized in 2012. The rule would have raised fuel economy…
This Paleontologist Discovered a Fossil ‘Find Of A Lifetime’ in the Area Trump Cut From Bears Ears
“The entire surface was carpeted with fossil bones,” Gay, the education director at the Colorado Canyons Association, told HuffPost. “Everywhere on the hillside, for 60 meters.” What Gay’s team discovered could be the densest bed of Triassic-era fossils in the nation, and maybe the world. During an initial excavation at the site last year, he…
How 5 Large Mega-Gyres Helped Create a “Galaxy of Garbage” in the Pacific
Susan White/US Fish and Wildlife Service Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. What’s 1.6 million square kilometers, weighs 80,000 metric tons, and is three times the size of continental France? That would be the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—the…