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The Trump administration has entered Stage 5 climate denial.
This article discusses how the Trump administration has entered Stage 5 climate denial – if we’re already doomed to disastrous climate change, then there’s no reason to cut carbon pollution, argues the Trump administration.
To date, the Trump administration has pinballed between Stages 1, 2, and 3, calling climate change
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Report: Climate Apathy Is Worse Than Climate Denial
This article discusses how Climate Apathy Is Worse Than Climate Denial. A new report makes the dangers of a warming planet more apparent than ever. Too bad the people running the US don’t seem to care.
Imagine you heard a meteor was careening toward Earth. Though scientists were unsure how […]
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Three articles – Trump is ‘waging a war on children’ through EPA regulatory rollbacks
These three articles discuss how Donald Trump is ‘waging a war on children’ through EPA regulatory rollbacks.
The first discusses how the administration has introduced plans to rollback back key pollution rules, removed the head of the EPA’s children’s health office, and was shown to have scrubbed any mention of the impact of climate […]
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EPA to abandon restrictions against chemical linked to climate change
This article discusses how EPA is about to abandon restrictions against chemical linked to climate change.
The Trump administration is planning to do away with an Obama-era regulation that restricted a known greenhouse gas from being used as a refrigerant in household appliances.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) late Wednesday announced it’s […]
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Methane rule rollback burns the natural gas “bridge” theory
This article discusses how Trump’s rollback of Methane emissions regulations makes the ‘clean’ fossil fuel as dirty as coal.
This summer’s statistics on electricity use and generation included a significant gem: Over the last 12 months, power generation from coal has dropped to a three-decade low. That was party-worthy news for […]
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DeSmog Blog
This blog discusses multiple items this week including exploding PA pipelines; Trump’s attempt to export fracking technology to Argentina; fracking’s water problems; the Atkin Charitable Foundation’s pulling funding from the climate-denying organization, Global Warming Policy Foundation; Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” efforts to push environmental justice; how many of the largest 200 industrial […]
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Trump Admin Accelerates Push to Export Fracking to Argentina
This article discusses the Trump Administration’s push to export fracking to Argentina.
In June, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry traveled to Bariloche, Argentina, for a G20 Summit where he expressed his desire to help Argentina become more like Texas, his home state.
“The technology that has allowed for the shale gas revolution in […]
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Trump Administration Wants to Make It Easier to Release Methane Into Air
This article discusses how the Trump administration is making it easier for O&G companies to pollute our air, by releasing more and more methane into the atmosphere.
Methane, which is among the most powerful greenhouse gases, routinely leaks from oil and gas wells, and energy companies have long said that the rules […]
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You can’t put America first if you put climate change last
This article discusses how climate change is affecting our future.
It is in America’s core economic and national security interest to contain greenhouse-gas emissions “at a level that prevents dangerous human interference with the global climate.” That’s because climate change is a “threat multiplier” that “poses immediate risks to […]
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Report: U.S. utility solar contracts ‘exploded’ in 2018 despite tariffs
This article discusses how solar energy is increasingly the power source of choice, despite Trump’s efforts to focus on fossil fuels.
Procurement of solar energy by U.S. utilities “exploded” in the first half of 2018, prompting a prominent research group to boost its five-year installation forecast on Thursday despite the […]
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