In the coming weeks, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt is expected to announce a proposal that would limit the type of scientific studies and data the agency can use in crafting public health and environmental regulations. The planned policy shift, first reported by E&E News, would require the EPA to only use […]
In a bluntly titled blog post, Note to Breitbart: Earth Is Not Cooling, Climate Change Is Real and Please Stop Using Our Video to Mislead Americans, The Weather Channel took Breitbart to task for using a Weather.com video in an article about “global cooling.” The post lays out the misleading science behind the Breitbart piece […]
By Gretchen Goldman Last week the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology tweeted some good ole fashioned climate denial—you know, the old tired long discredited nonsensical claim that cold weather negates the global consensus of scientists that climate change is happening (It doesn’t.). The scientific community and the news media did not let this […]
By Deirdre Fulton The Republican-led House Science Committee on Wednesday held an “unusual” hearing, alleged to have been “orchestrated on behalf of ExxonMobil” and criticized as an abuse of congressional power. Environmentalists and elected officials alike decried the sideshow event, called by committee chair Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) in an attempt to justify subpoenas he […]
Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Science Committee, has subpoenaed two state attorneys general to obtain records of their investigations into whether ExxonMobil misled investors and the public on climate change risks. Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Science Committee Smith is among a group of GOP lawmakers who say the oil giant’s […]
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