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

Wednesday - 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

Wednesday - 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

Tuesday - 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

Monday - The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Federal Insurance Office (FIO) has withdrawn from the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS).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

Monday - 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 25 - 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 25 - 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 25 - 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...

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

30 Jan 25 - '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 25 - 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 25 - 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...

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

28 Jan 25 - 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 25 - 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...

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

23 Jan 25 - 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 24 - 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 24 - 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...

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

17 Dec 24 - Researchers attending the American Geophysical Union conference worry their work could disappear when a president who rejects climate science takes office.

What could a US-China trade war mean for the energy transition?

12 Dec 24 - Ahead of Donald Trump’s second term as US president, a rerun of his first trade war with China is firmly on the cards – and minerals key to the energy transition may end up in the crossfire.

Malibu residents flee as wildfire swallows homes along iconic Southern California coastline

12 Dec 24 - The beaches are empty in Malibu as a wildfire tears through swaths of the iconic Southern California coastline, consuming homes and vehicles and forcing residents – including legendary actor Dick Van...


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