Thursday 29 March 2018

Energy and Environment: EPA staffers get talking points playing down human role in climate change

Energy and Environment
With Chris Mooney
 
EPA staffers get talking points playing down human role in climate change
The points mimic public statements by Administrator Scott Pruitt, who has repeatedly questioned the extent to which humans are contributing to the planet's warming.
Why Saudi Arabia is trying to launch an utterly massive new solar project
The project would signal a dramatic ramping up of the renewable energy industry in one of the world's most suitable spots for solar power.
 
Trump officials prepare to undo fuel-efficiency targets despite some automakers' misgivings
Rolling back Obama-era standards could result in a two-tier system, with California imposing stricter requirements.
 
A mining firm executive griped to Zinke about federal pollution rules. The secretary apologized.
The exchange came during a White House meeting called "Cut the Red Tape: Liberating America from Bureaucracy."
 
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Ice cores show Greenland's melting is unprecedented in at least four centuries
And one scientist thinks we haven't seen this much melt "for 5,000 years."
 
Partisan split on climate grows, even as U.S. fears are on the rise, poll finds
Forty-five percent of those surveyed said global warming would pose a serious threat in their lifetimes, the highest level recorded since Gallup first asked in 1997.
 
Shell — yes, that Shell — just outlined a radical scenario for what it would take to halt climate change
The company just envisioned a future in which people won't buy nearly as much of its oil anymore.
 
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Internal watchdog to open probe into National Park Service leader for allegedly making crude gesture
An anonymous Park Service employee described an incident on either Jan. 10 or 11 involving P. Daniel Smith, currently the top-ranking official at the National Park Service.
 
House spending bill would increase funding for national parks and wildfire suppression
The National Park Service would get an infusion instead of the massive budget cut proposed by President Trump.
 
Plastic within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 'increasing exponentially,' scientists find
The stretch of ocean now contains 79,000 tons of plastic debris, in the form of 1.8 trillion pieces, a research survey has found.
 
 
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