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Caribbean states beg Trump to grasp climate change threat: ‘war has come to us’
This article discusses the dire predicament that Caribbean Islands face in the future from sea level rising and extreme storms. As warming temperatures caused by climate change is strengthening hurricanes, leaders in the region plead with Trump to rejoin the Paris climate deal.
Caribbean states and territories have rounded on the Trump […]
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Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan Is Roiling Coastal Elections
This article discusses the Trump administration’s proposal to allow offshore oil and gas drilling. That has met significant opposition from Republican candidates up and down the Eastern Seaboard.
Carteret County sits in a region of North Carolina known as the Crystal Coast. It’s celebrated for its charming lighthouses, sun-bleached […]
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Americans Think NASA Should Focus on Climate Change. Trump Doesn’t
This article discusses climate change, basically pitting Trump against the world.
NASA’s focus should not be on the cosmos but on Earth, according to a wide-ranging Bloomberg poll of Americans’ views on space.
Observing the climate should be NASA’s “top priority,” according to 43 percent of those surveyed, who chose from six possible options. One-quarter said […]
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Top Interior officials ordered parks to end science policy, emails show
This article discusses the Trump Administration’s attempts to ignore science in dealing with US parks and forests.
As deputy director of the National Park Service, Michael Reynolds played a key role in developing a sweeping new vision for managing national parks. The new policy, enacted in the final weeks of […]
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Studies: Take it from the military: Climate security is national security
This article discusses how the military looks at climate change and its implications on national security. It is clearly at odds with the Trump administration.
President Trump has insisted that national security is his top priority, repeatedly pledging to protect Americans and equip our military to be the […]
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Zombie Coal Plants Show Why Trump’s Emergency Plan Is No Cure-All
This article discusses how Trump’s stupid policy cannot save the coal industry. Two old Virginia power plants already operate under federal emergency authority. They don’t meet pollution standards, and one failed and has been offline for weeks.
Yorktown, where Lord Cornwallis accepted General Washington’s victory to end the American […]
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Trump replacement for Obama climate plan moves forward
This article discusses how the Trump administration is pushing coal revival by eliminating regulations that protect our health and environment.
The Trump administration is advancing a proposal that would replace President Barack Obama’s principal attempt to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions with a new rule expected to go easier […]
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Andrew Wheeler – Pruitt’s replacement at EPA
Read the DeSmog Blog’s analysis of Mr. Wheeler here. Not good.
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Trump’s Cuts In Climate-Change Research Spark a Global Scramble For Funds
This article discusses the impact that Trump is having on climate change research. It is not good.
During Barack Obama’s final year in office, his Administration launched an ambitious, twenty-five-million-dollar partnership with a little-known research organization in Belize called the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre. The goal of the program was […]
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Ocean Agency Suggests Opening Marine Monuments To Commercial Fishing
This article discusses another attempt by the Trump administration to gut environmental laws, this time, those protecting ocean habitat.
An internal document suggests the nation’s leading ocean science agency is planning to gut protections for America’s marine national monuments, opening millions of acres of federal water to commercial fishing as […]
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