#climatedesk — Public Fediverse posts
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Recent Close Calls for Michigan’s Dams Are a Warning to America
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How Prescribed Burns Can Help Save Taxpayers Billions
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As Household Bills Soar, Activists Dream of a Green New Deal Remake
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As Household Bills Soar, Activists Dream of a Green New Deal Remake
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As Household Bills Soar, Activists Dream of a Green New Deal Remake
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As Household Bills Soar, Activists Dream of a Green New Deal Remake
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As Household Bills Soar, Activists Dream of a Green New Deal Remake
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Inside That Weird Anti-Science Conference Where Trump’s EPA Chief Delivered the Keynote
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Trump’s EPA Chief Delivers the Keynote at a Conference of Climate Change Deniers
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Former Staff Show How Trump Acted to Upend EPA’s Mission and “Make America Sicker”
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Former Staff Show How Trump Acted to Upend EPA’s Mission and “Make America Sicker”
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In a new report that outlines a dozen high-risk pollutants given new life thanks to weakened, delayed or rescinded regulations, the Environmental Protection Network (EPN), a nonprofit, nonpartisan group of hundreds of former Environmental Protection Agency staff, warns that […] -
Trump’s Toxic Pollution Exemptions Are a Gift to America’s Dirtiest Coal Plants
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Trump’s Toxic Pollution Exemptions Are a Gift to America’s Dirtiest Coal Plants
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Almost all coal-fired power plants in the US had the ability to comply with rules limiting their emission of dangerous pollutants such as mercury that can cause brain damage in children. Despite this, Donald Trump’s administration decided to demolish the standards anyway. […] -
Video: Trump Nuked a Major EPA Climate Rule. Here’s What You Need to Know.
On February 12, Donald Trump dropped the climatic equivalent of an atomic bomb. He announced the repeal of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 endangerment finding, the basis of the EPA’s ability to regulate climate-warming emissions. “This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history,” proclaimed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “This is corruption, plain […] -
Video: Trump Nuked a Major EPA Climate Rule. Here’s What You Need to Know.
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Trump’s Climate Repeal Will Kill America’s Transition From Gas Guzzlers to EVs
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With the repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific finding on the dangers of greenhouse gases, the Trump administration is aiming to take out many federal actions on climate change in one blast. The first impact of this deregulatory […] -
Trump’s Climate Repeal Will Kill America’s Transition From Gas Guzzlers to EVs
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Trump Repeals Finding That Lets the EPA Regulate Climate-Warming Emissions
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Trump Plans to Repeal the Finding That Lets the EPA Regulate Climate-Warming Emissions
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In what is set to be its most audacious anti-environment move yet, the Trump administration on Thursday will roll back the mechanism allowing the government to regulate planet-heating pollution, the White House press secretary has told reporters. “President Trump will […] -
Trump’s EPA Protects Big Business, Not People or the Environment, Critics Say
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. After a tumultuous year under the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a new, almost unrecognizable guise—one that tears up environmental rules and cheerleads for coal, gas-guzzling cars, and artificial intelligence. When Donald Trump took power, it was widely anticipated […]