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Trump is tackling every 'emergency' except the important one: climate change

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To hear President Trump describe it, the U.S. is beset by emergencies. We allegedly have an energy emergency, a government waste emergency and a foreign trade emergency.

Trump vows to immediately ramp up US production of 'beautiful, clean coal'

Thu 20 Mar 2025

President Trump this week continued to make his environmental priorities clear by vowing to open up hundreds of coal power plants in the United States in an effort to advance competition against China.

Some US scientists stick with the IPCC despite the administration pulling out of international climate work

Wed 19 Mar 2025

A handful of U.S. researchers joined a critical meeting on climate and cities this week in Japan. "For me, this process is so important that if I had to self-fund, I would," said one.

The unexpected knock-on effect of Trump's minerals 'deal of the century'

Tue 18 Mar 2025

Donald Trump's return to the White House is a "major blow to global climate action". So said Christiana Figueres, the former UN climate chief, after he was elected in November.

The true cost of Trump's cuts to NOAA and NASA

Mon 17 Mar 2025

EDITORIAL: Not only will the cuts hinder the agencies' abilities to track and warn about upcoming severe weather events, they also hamper basic research into climate change, carried out to help humanity better prepare for the sweeping environmental upheaval already evident in a steadily warming world.

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Trump officials decimate climate protections and consider axeing key greenhouse gas finding

14 Mar 2025

EPA takes aim at almost every major pollution rule in what environmentalists call act of 'malice toward the planet.'

Tech giants are complicit in an anti-climate agenda. Employees should be speaking up

14 Mar 2025

OPINION: As Big Tech bows to Donald Trump, employees should use their influence to engage coworkers and press their leaders for action.

Despite everything, US EV sales are up 28% this year

14 Mar 2025

In the US, customers are buying while there are still incentives and no extra tariffs.

US government terminates $20B in climate grants

13 Mar 2025

The move comes just one day before a federal judge will hold a hearing in a lawsuit brought by one of the grant recipients seeking access to the funds the Trump administration had frozen while it probed the program.

US Supreme Court rejects Republican-led effort to halt climate lawsuits against oil firms

12 Mar 2025

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a lawsuit from Republican attorneys general in 19 states aimed at blocking climate change suits against the oil and gas industry from Democratic-led states.

US withdraws from UN climate damage fund

11 Mar 2025

The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from the United Nations climate damage fund that was established in 2023 to help developing countries most vulnerable to climate change when natural disasters strike.

US withdrawing from plan to help major polluters move from coal

7 Mar 2025

The United States is withdrawing from the Just Energy Transition Partnership, a collaboration between richer nations to help developing countries transition from coal to cleaner energy.

The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn't bother Trump - and I know why

7 Mar 2025

By George Monbiot | OPINION: He is surrounded by people who have grandiose plans and dreams beyond our planet. Vengeful nihilism is a big part of the Maga project.

Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber

6 Mar 2025

President's move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species.

US: EPA calls for watchdog to probe $20 billion climate fund

5 Mar 2025

The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund is at the center of a fight between the Trump administration and environmental groups seeking access to the funds that Congress approved under its massive climate legislation.

Trump's firings at US weather agency will put lives at risk, scientists say

4 Mar 2025

"There will be people who die in extreme weather events and related disasters who would not have otherwise."

Trump's war on climate science is pushing us into a dystopian future

3 Mar 2025

US President Donald Trump's latest war on the climate includes withdrawing support for any research that mentions the word.

US officials absent from global climate forums during Trump 2.0

28 Feb 2025

US officials have missed recent international climate forums sparking concerns about a potentially significant shift from Donald Trump's first term.

America's "first car-free neighborhood" is going pretty good, actually?

28 Feb 2025

Since breaking ground in 2021, Culdesac Tempe has had its share of detractors and skeptics. But none of them live there.

RFK Jr., onetime environmentalist, kills climate change programs

27 Feb 2025

In 1999, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then an environmental lawyer, was named by Time magazine as a "hero of the planet" for his pioneering work to clean up America's waterways. On February 14 of this year, his second day as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, he ended HHS funding for climate change and health programs at the National Institutes of Health, a move that will likely terminate this work.

Greenpeace risks bankruptcy at US pipeline trial

26 Feb 2025

Greenpeace has said that a lawsuit brought by an energy company over the Dakota Access Pipeline could wipe it out.

How Trump gutted climate policy in 30 days

25 Feb 2025

President Donald Trump's promised assault on federal climate policies is sweeping across Washington, state capitals and private industry with a speed that's surprising even some of his supporters and critics -- and could leave an impact on the planet's future well after his presidency.

US to pull delegation from UN climate science meeting

24 Feb 2025

State Department officials won't participate in next week's meeting of the top UN climate science panel, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.

US: Senior Department of Justice prosecutor quit after being told to investigate Biden climate spending

20 Feb 2025

The top criminal prosecutor in the Washington, DC, US Attorney's Office, Denise Cheung, resigned Tuesday after declining a request from her Trump-appointed superiors to open a grand jury investigation she viewed as premature.

There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here's how to survive if that happens

20 Feb 2025

OPINION: It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers - the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves.

US Energy Secretary backs coal and attacks 'sinister' climate targets

19 Feb 2025

The Trump appointee and fossil fuel executive called the transition to renewable energy "lunacy" at an event packed with climate science deniers.

US: Former EPA officials blast effort to rescind climate funds

18 Feb 2025

Former EPA officials are condemning the agency's new leadership for trying to claw back billions from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, calling waste claims from current administrator, Lee Zeldin, a 'smokescreen' to justify dismantling climate programs the Trump administration opposes.

'Life-threatening cold' expected as polar vortex stretches across US after deadly weekend flooding

18 Feb 2025

Harsh weather moved west on Monday as a polar vortex was expected to grip the Rockies and the northern Plains after winter storms pummeled the eastern U.S. over the weekend, killing at least 10 people, including nine victims in Kentucky who died during flooding from heavy rains.

As Trump administration purges climate data and web pages, research groups scramble to save information

13 Feb 2025

The Trump administration has directed federal agency staff to remove climate references and scientific data from many web pages. Researchers are rushing to archive it.

Falling costs drive US toward green energy - even as political tides shift

12 Feb 2025

The U.S. is barreling toward an energy transition as renewables - especially solar - become ever-cheaper sources of energy.

Trump administration moves to suspend national EV charger rollout

11 Feb 2025

The bid to freeze the money upends how the federal government delivers funding to states and may violate court orders issued this week.

"No future": Climate projects face existential threat after Trump's aid shutdown

7 Feb 2025

The Trump administration's attack on USAID puts at risk close to $500 million a year in grant-based climate funding for developing countries.

Trump's reversal of climate policies risks undermining U.S. manufacturing -- and could cost people jobs

7 Feb 2025

United States President Donald Trump's early executive actions have set American manufacturing on a collision course with his administration's fossil-fuel-driven agenda. It's clear that climate change policies run counter to his vision of American primacy.

US: More than 1000 Environmental Protection workers could be dismissed immediately

5 Feb 2025

The Trump administration has notified more than 1,000 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency that they could be dismissed immediately.

Living near active oil and gas wells may have increased risk of dying from COVID-19

5 Feb 2025

Californians who lived near the highest-producing wells were more likely to die of COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic, recent research shows.

USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites

4 Feb 2025

Agriculture Department employees have been ordered to delete landing pages discussing climate change across agency websites and document climate change references for further review, according to an internal email obtained by POLITICO.

US Treasury withdraws from global climate-related financial oversight initiative

3 Feb 2025

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Federal Insurance Office (FIO) has withdrawn from the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS).

California considers letting victims of natural disasters sue oil companies for damages

3 Feb 2025

Oil and gas companies would be liable for damages caused by climate change-related disasters in California under legislation introduced Monday by two Democratic lawmakers.

Yes, you can blame climate change for the LA wildfires

31 Jan 2025

Los Angeles wildfire season now lasts roughly 23 days longer than in preindustrial times.

Trump freezes $50 billion in funding, including for clean energy innovation

30 Jan 2025

The Trump administration has halted spending from the United States Department of Energy (DOE)'s approximately $50 billion budget while a 'comprehensive review' is conducted to ensure its spending and other actions - which include funding for new energy technologies - are in alignment with the priorities of President Donald Trump, according to an agency memo seen by Bloomberg.

US oilfield firms face pricing squeeze as fracking demand slumps

30 Jan 2025

Top U.S. oilfield services firms are facing weaker pricing and revenue this year as oil producers become increasingly efficient and keep a cap on spending, according to oilfield executives and analysts.

From showers to tiny fish to windmills, Trump's climate policies are driven by fixations

30 Jan 2025

'It was striking that the White House memo included toilets and shower heads as a presidential priority,' said one expert.

The price of coffee hits an all-time high - here's why

30 Jan 2025

Rising coffee prices are part of a larger, global challenge driven by climate change, economic pressures, and geopolitical uncertainty.

The consequences of US climate denial will be costly

28 Jan 2025

With the second Trump administration refusing to acknowledge ongoing climate change, primary concern is naturally with its plan to gut U.S. efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions and again exit from the Paris Agreement. Unfortunately, this is not all the wreckage that is to come.

Nine things to expect for the climate following Trump's return

28 Jan 2025

Climate scientists are probably among those most aggrieved by Donald Trump's return as US president.

I'm an economist. Here's why I'm worried the California insurance crisis could trigger broader financial instability

27 Jan 2025

The devastating wildfires in Los Angeles have made one threat very clear: Climate change is undermining the insurance systems American homeowners rely on to protect themselves from catastrophes. This breakdown is starting to become painfully clear as families and communities struggle to rebuild.

Los Angeles is a climate disaster. The fires will change nothing

23 Jan 2025

OPINION: Los Angeles is burning. Fossil fuel companies laid the kindling. Soon the world will stop caring.

As climate change threatens Christmas trees, the farming industry tries to evolve

19 Dec 2024

Christmas trees, like any other crop, are affected by the general rise in temperature associated with global warming and the extreme weather events that result from it.

A marine heatwave killed 4 million of Alaska’s murre seabirds

19 Dec 2024

Beginning in late fall 2014 and lasting into 2016, an anomalous, massive marine heatwave nicknamed “the Blob” developed off the western coast of the U.S., covering all of Alaska’s coastwater and extending as far south as Southern California, raising ocean temperatures by several degrees Celsius.

Trump’s climate threats rattle world’s biggest science meeting

17 Dec 2024

Researchers attending the American Geophysical Union conference worry their work could disappear when a president who rejects climate science takes office.

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