Thursday, 3 May 2018

Energy and Environment: Earth’s atmosphere just crossed another troubling climate change threshold

Energy and Environment
With Chris Mooney
 
Earth's atmosphere just crossed another troubling climate change threshold
Carbon dioxide concentrations have now passed 410 parts per million, sustained over a month.
Scott Pruitt's top communications official is leaving the EPA
Her departure follows the exit of two other top Pruitt aides this week.
 
D.C. consultant and former lobbyist helped arrange Scott Pruitt's canceled trip to Australia, records show
The emails, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, show that the genesis of the trip wasn't necessarily about work at the Environmental Protection Agency.
 
The people who'll be most hurt by climate swings did the least to cause them, study says
Scientists just found another reason climate change is really unfair.
 
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Hawaii might be about to ban your favorite sunscreen to protect its coral reefs
State lawmakers passed a bill to ban the sale and distribution of sunscreens that contain two chemicals deemed damaging to the coral reefs.
 
California, 17 other states sue Trump administration to defend Obama-era climate rules for vehicles
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt in April said he would revisit Obama-era rules.
 
Unprecedented U.S.-British project launches to study the world's most dangerous glacier
"For global sea level change in the next century, this Thwaites glacier is almost the entire story."
 
EPA inspector general to open 'new reviews' into Scott Pruitt
"We have received multiple requests from multiple members of Congress, as well as other OIG Hotline complaints, regarding these same and related issues," the agency's inspector general wrote lawmakers.
 
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Trump administration drafts plan to unravel Obama-era fuel-efficiency rules, challenge California
The plan would hobble one of the Obama administration's most significant initiatives to curb climate change.
 
Proposed shake-up at National Park Service could make senior leaders hit the road
If finalized, the transfers would represent a second round of abrupt moves within the Interior Department.
 
Scott Pruitt admits little culpability in EPA controversies, mostly blames aides and staff
During two hearings on Capitol Hill, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator says critics are trying "to derail the president's agenda."
 
 
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