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Trump Blasted at UN Ocean Conference: U.S. ‘Main Threat to Mother Earth’

Trump Blasted at UN Ocean Conference: U.S. ‘Main Threat to Mother Earth’

Bolivian President Evo Morales blasted President Donald Trump‘s announcement that the U.S. is withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement. He called the U.S. one of the world’s “main polluters” and said Trump’s decision is akin to “denying science, turning your backs on multilateralism and attempting to deny a future to upcoming generations.” This “has made […]

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    EPA Head Continues to Defend Trump’s Historic Mistake

    EPA Head Continues to Defend Trump’s Historic Mistake

    Scott Pruitt took to the Sunday shows today in a troubled attempt to spin the Trump administration’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, amid a firestorm of international and domestic criticism. In his appearances this morning, Pruitt was hammered for admitting that he and Trump never discussed climate change, criticized for his […]

    Thank You Trump for Making Climate a Breaking News Story

    Thank You Trump for Making Climate a Breaking News Story

    Donald Trump has done what Al Gore, Jim Hansen, climate scientists, the Sierra Club and the rest of the environmental movement could never do—make climate disruption breaking cable TV news. Trump’s histrionic, largely symbolic and recklessly self-destructive decision to abandon the Paris climate agreement means, among other things, that far more Americans know about the […]

    5 Facts Trump Got Wrong on His Attack of the Green Climate Fund

    5 Facts Trump Got Wrong on His Attack of the Green Climate Fund

    Donald Trump announced Thursday afternoon that the U.S. will begin the process of withdrawing from the Paris agreement. During his remarks, Trump made a series of inaccurate and misleading statements about the Green Climate Fund in connection to his withdrawal decision. The United Nation’s Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the world’s premier multilateral fund to […]

    Watch Live: White House Press Briefing Post Paris Announcement

    Watch Live: White House Press Briefing Post Paris Announcement

    President Trump announced Thursday that he will withdrawal the United States from the Paris climate agreement. Now, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and Press Secretary Sean Spicer address the press during a White House briefing (starts at 37:09). Since Trump’s announcement, there has been tremendous backlash from world leaders, environmental organizations and business […]

    World Leaders to Trump: You’re on Your Own

    World Leaders to Trump: You’re on Your Own

    The overwhelming global response to President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement was essentially, “Go jump in a lake”—or as one Germany tabloid succinctly phrased it in a widely circulated headline: Very much enjoying the German press at the moment. "Earth to Trump…" pic.twitter.com/sPqkUPYVlw — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) […]

    Fox News Host: Trump Called Me for Advice on Paris Agreement

    Fox News Host: Trump Called Me for Advice on Paris Agreement

    Kimberly Guilfoyle (Co-Host): I don’t think this is a deal that anybody should be crying about. Like we said, it’s non-binding, and the United States is already a clean energy, oil and gas leader. So, we can keep doing what we’re doing, we can keep reducing our emissions. Why would we in fact put ourselves […]

    Trump Betrays Science and Scientists With Climate Walkout

    Trump Betrays Science and Scientists With Climate Walkout

    By Alex Kirby President Donald Trump abandoned science with his decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris agreement on climate change, saying, “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris”—a wonderfully clear statement of his inability to recognize that the earth shares one atmosphere. Chris Rapley, professor of climate science at […]