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 […]
The House Science Committee will hear testimony March 29 that will question whether climate change is a human induced phenomenon. The hearing, Climate Science: Assumptions, Policy Implications and the Scientific Method, is a just another prong in the current effort to undo the environmental progress made during the Obama years. It coincides with the efforts […]
Attorneys representing 21 youth plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States served request for production of documents to the U.S. government and the American Petroleum Institute (API), asking both defendants to turn over the “Wayne Tracker” emails, as part of discovery in the climate case. As ExxonMobil explained Tuesday, the email address pseudonym “was put in […]
Rex Tillerson used an email address registered under the name “Wayne Tracker” to discuss climate policies while CEO of ExxonMobil, according to a letter sent by the New York attorney general’s office to a New York Supreme Court justice Monday. OMG! White House Plagiarizes Statement From Exxon Touting Plans for Expanded Fossil Fuel Projects https://t.co/ScgWFNA7xY […]
By Nika Knight As if the ties between the Trump administration and oil and gas behemoth ExxonMobil weren’t apparent enough, the White House on Monday issued a press release that lifted text wholesale from an Exxon press release published earlier that same day. The Exxon release touted plans for expanded fossil fuel projects in the […]
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’ […]
President Trump signed his first Congressional Review Act-sponsored bill (CRA) Tuesday, declaring at the signing that “energy jobs are coming back” and “lots of people [are] going back to work now.” The Most Dangerous Bill You’ve Never Heard of Just Passed the House https://t.co/eegoOY5cnH @greenpeaceusa @HuffPostGreen — EcoWatch (@EcoWatch) January 10, 2017 The legislation, in […]
It’s staggering to recall that one of Donald Trump’s main appeals to many of his voters was a pledge to “drain the swamp” and rid Washington of corruption. In only two weeks he has, instead, begun stocking the swamp with new and poisonous creatures, making it yet more deadly, much as sugar planters did in […]
By Andy Rowell What a difference a few months make. Last year Exxon was on the ropes, reeling from the news that the company was under investigation for lying to the public and shareholders about the risks of climate change in the scandal that has become known as #ExxonKnew. Furthermore, last October Exxon faced the […]