President Donald Trump‘s top advisors and cabinet officials will debate whether the U.S. should pull out of the Paris climate change agreement. The landmark accord, which aims to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius, was agreed upon by nearly 200 countries in 2015. The Hill reported that the meeting is aimed […]
A supervisor at the Department of Energy‘s Office of International Climate and Clean Energy told staff to stop using the phrases “climate change,” “emissions reduction” and “Paris agreement” in any official written communications, according to POLITICO‘s sources. The instructions were reportedly given at a Tuesday meeting held shortly after President Trump‘s latest controversial executive order […]
Amid questions over whether the executive order would end U.S. involvement in the Paris agreement—and with no firm indication from the White House about staying in the agreement—top European Union climate official Miguel Arias Cañete expressed “regret” over Trump’s policies Tuesday, promising that the European Union “will stand by Paris, we will defend Paris and […]
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner pushed President Trump to exclude language that criticized the Paris agreement from an upcoming executive order, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday evening. According to the Wall Street Journal’s multiple sources, the upcoming executive order targeting Obama-era climate regulations now excludes any mention of the deal due to the Kushners’ […]
By Kelly Levin and Rhys Gerholdt The climate denier engine is revving up again. Last weekend an article in the Mail on Sunday attempted to cast doubt on the strength of climate science. It’s now been taken up by the U.S. House Science Committee, which has been prone to promoting more climate denial than sound […]
[Editor’s note: The New York Times reports that the Trump Administration is preparing executive orders that would have far sweeping consequences for the United Nations and multilateral treaties. According to their sources, the order will call for “at least a 40 percent decrease” in U.S. funds to the United Nations, while another calls for a […]
New research released Thursday reveals disturbing new evidence on how locking-into new long-lived tar sands production undermines global efforts to address the global climate crisis far beyond Canada’s borders. “Trudeau’s pipeline decisions will lead directly to suffering, displacement and even death for vulnerable people around the world due to impacts of a warming world,” said […]
By Nika Knight Our window of time to act on climate may be shrinking even faster than previously thought. We may only have one year remaining before we lock in 1.5 C of warming—the ideal goal outlined in the Paris climate agreement—after which we’ll see catastrophic and irreversible climate shifts, many experts have warned. That’s […]
Before Inauguration Day, the Trump era has opened with an extremist agenda that poses an alarming threat to our people, our environment and the core values we share about justice, fair play and our commitment to leave future generations a livable world. Already, we’ve seen a set of cabinet nominees dominated by fossil fuel advocates, […]
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