Our Outlaw Prez's efforts are mostly focused on fulfilling grudges, flamethrowing gov't agencies & regulations, transforming the military into branches of the Proud Boys, and treating diplomacy like the worst-ever episode of âThe Apprentice.â But the grift is at the heart of this heartless regime.
Phasing out coal, oil, and natural gas is essential for dealing with the climate crisis. But myopic world leaders at this year's global get-together couldn't get it together to build a phase-out roadmap. Next year, they say.
Wetlands and old-growth forests stabilize carbon, sustain indigenous subsistence, buffer storms. Their destruction disproportionately burdens Indigenous peoples, rural communities, poor people and people of color who live in the âextractive zonesâ of this nation.
When a government chooses austerity over humanity, the blood price is typically paid by people with no vote in the matter.
We're on a trajectory to hit 2.6°C (4.7°F) of warming by 2100. If that prediction turns out to be right, it will be catastrophic.
The Trump regime has slashed funds and programs designed for America's first nations, but before he showed up, funding was already far below the needs and obligation.
Brazil promises a âconference of action.â But unless fossil-fuel power is broken, implementation will mean only managed decline â and another squandered decade.
The EPA had an honor system under which corporations estimated their emissions. A new investigative report shows many of those estimates were way way way off the real levels. Intentional undercount? Surely not.
The Monroe Doctrine and Roosevelt Corollary laid the rhetorical foundation for U.S. empire in the western hemisphere
Greenhouse gas emissions predicted to decline 10% over 1990 by 2035. But to constrain warming the decline needs to be 60%
Ocean acidification is seventh of nine planetary boundaries to be passed. Judge reverses work stoppage White House ordered on giant wind farm off the Rhode Island coast.
Charlie Kirk made a ton of debunked remarks about climate change, labeling as "pagans" the advocates of action to address the crisis
California's publicly owned Turlock Irrigation District has completed construction of Project Nexus, a test of solar panels placed over canals that could ultimately provide 15% of the state's electricity, along with other benefits
Also: Why can't we have nice, speedy trains: Amazon at the tipping point; China's carbon emissions fall and America's rise.
E.J. Antoni plans to report job gains and losses on a quarterly rather than monthly basis until whatever new system he sets up is installed.
Scientists rip Department of Energy's unscientific "farce" of a report written by five of the world's most notorious climate science deniers
It's not hard to imagine our Outlaw Prez ordering that all 19,000 of the "ugly" wind turbines in Texas and the 6,000 in Iowa be bulldozed as part of his energy dominance fantasy.
EPA chief Lee Zeldin and DOE chief Chris Wright amplify anti-scientific twaddle in their attack on the very idea that a hotter planet might be bad for us.
Food aid is now trickling into Gaza, but critics blast the effort as not enough, not fast enough. Two respected Israeli humanitarian groups report genocide is happening.
Climate science deniers in the U.S. government who deny being deniers are reshaping energy policy in the most denier way possible.