•October 28, 2020
President Trump has removed protections from Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, one of the world’s largest temperate rainforests, to allow for logging and development.
A notice, posted by the Forest Service on Wednesday, stated that all 16.7 million acres will be ope...
By Christopher Flavelle and Lisa Friedman
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WASHINGTON » The Trump administration recently removed the chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier scientific agency, installed new political staff who have questioned accepted f...
JPMorgan Chase and other big banks should use their lending power to force cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
By Daniel Growald, Peter Gill Case and Valerie Rockefeller
The writers are fifth-generation members of the Rockefeller family. Opinion column, The New York Times
Oct. 11, 2020
One h...
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OCEANS AROUND THE WORLD By Tiffany May
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Plastic waste has long been a visible — and growing — problem in oceans around the world, with refuse littering the shorelines of once-pristine beaches, stretching out across a wid...
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By Matthew BrownThe Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT.» A U.S. government watchdog agency faulted the Trump administration Tuesday for its handling of a COVID-19 relief effort that awarded companies breaks on payments for oil and gas extracted ...
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DEREGULATION CHALLENGES By Lisa Friedman and John Schwartz
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DEREGULATION CHALLENGES By Lisa Friedman and John Schwart© The New York Times Co.
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Friday, 18 September 2020 17:40 GMT
As climate impacts surge, Fridays for Future youth activists aim to resume virus-smart mass protest By Laurie GoeringLONDON, Sept 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Leaders of a youth climate strike ...
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By Clifford Krauss
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HOUSTON»As oil prices plunge and concerns about climate change grow, BP, Royal Dutch Shell and other European energy companies are selling off oil fields, planning a sharp reduction in emissions and inve...
The Trump administration has acted to repeal or weaken at least 100 environmental regulations over the past four years, including a number of Obama-era climate policies that Mr. Trump has said stifle businesses. The rollbacks include:
Fuel-economy standards: The Trump administration ...
Shared from the 9/15/2020 The Denver Post eEdition Trump spurs science on wildfires, climate By Jonathan Lemire, Aamer Madhani, Will Weissert and Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.» With the smell of California wildfires in the air, President Donald Trump on Mon...
CLIMATE CHANGE Shared from the 9/15/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Hiroko Tabuchi © The New York Times Co.
Last summer, oil and gas-industry groups were lobbying to overturn federal rules on leaks of natural gas, a major contributor to climate change. Their message: The companies h...
Shared from the 9/17/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Farhad Manjoo
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Among the few remaining advantages that Americans can claim over other countries is the relative cleanliness of our air. Air pollution is a leading risk factor for early death; it is linked to an...
With 82% of fish being removed faster than they can repopulate and climate change and acidification reducing the oceans' ability to absorb carbon, a crucial planetary life support system is in crisis. In the September issue of The Ethical Corporation magazine, we do a deep dive into oceans, and asse...
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A decade-long global effort to save Earth’s disappearing species and declining ecosystems has mostly stumbled, with fragile habitats such as coral reefs and tropical forests in more trouble than ever, researchers said in a report Tuesday.
In...
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From its extraction and production to its management as a waste product, plastic generates planet-warming emissions at every step of its lifecycle.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
If plastic use were a country, it’d be the fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.
Extract...
Shared from the 9/10/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Seth Borenstein
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A record amount of California is burning, spurred by a nearly 20-year mega-drought. To the north, parts of Oregon that don’t usually catch fire are in flames.
Meanwhile, the Atlantic’s 16th and 17th nam...
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The world is getting closer to passing a temperature limit set by global leaders five years ago and may exceed it in the next decade or so, according to a new United Nations report.
In the next five years, the world has nearly a 1-in-4 cha...
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CLIMATE AND DISASTERS
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
A record amount of California is burning, spurred by a nearly 20-year mega-drought. To the north, parts of Oregon that don’t usually catch fire are in flames.
Meanwhile, the Atlantic’...
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If you take an airplane trip, can you make up for the planet-warming emissions from that flight by doing things like driving less and turning off the lights in your house...
Shared from the 9/3/2020 The Denver Post eEditionBy Matthew BrownThe Associated Press
SCALING BACK ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
BILLINGS, MONT.» The Trump administration is seeking to fast-track environmental reviews of dozens of major energy and infrastructure projects during the COVID-19 pandemic, inclu...
