Climate change alarms are flashing. Washington isn’t paying attention
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The Trump administration has swept away climate change policies, Democrats are focused on energy costs, and environmental groups have gone quiet.
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Trump officials, billionaires and the quiet reshaping of America’s public lands
Tue 26 May 2026
A controversial land swap orchestrated by the megarich could be “a harbinger of what’s to come” for public lands under Trump.
Sorry, climate change is still dangerous, no matter what nonsense Trump emits
Mon 25 May 2026
As the climate-change landscape evolves, new forms of scientific disinformation emerge.
Trump distorts recent revisions of scientific projections of global warming
Thu 21 May 2026
President Donald Trump recently blasted the accuracy of global warming projections in a Truth Social post that itself painted a distorted view of the science, projections and how the international community discusses climate policy.
How the environmental movement lost its power – and how to get back
19 May 2026
COMMENT: How did the movement lose its vibrancy? More screen time, less wild habitat available to visit, and a shift to urban living have made Americans less viscerally connected to the splendor of planet Earth.
Trump has hindered offshore wind while China and other countries invest heavily
18 May 2026
President Donald Trump is stopping offshore wind projects in the United States, just as the industry was poised to grow significantly.
Some inconvenient truths in bringing climate science to the judiciary
14 May 2026
OPINION: Climate science had been knocking on the courthouse doors for quite some time when the Supreme Court of the United States finally invited it into the realm of legal action in 2007.
US EPA moves to speed clean air permits for power plants, industry
13 May 2026
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it would speed up the process for large polluters to obtain clean air permits, the latest move by the Trump administration to ease regulatory burdens on American power plants and industry.
Trump’s Iran war may stymie climate gains with boost to big oil, experts say
11 May 2026
Windfall profits could lock in Trump-era political wins for the industry and slow clean-energy transition.
‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds
8 May 2026
The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded.
