Environment

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On Friday, Trump was making news again, after having appeared to be subdued (or muzzled?) by his staff midweek. But he addressed the conservative equivalent of that bar scene in Star Wars, CPAC. As usual, the sum total of his wacky pronouncements added up to a […]

Climate Change

Study finds 6 600 spills from fracking in just four US states

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The Watchers | – – Each year, 2 to 16 percent of hydraulically fractured oil and gas wells spill hydrocarbons, chemical-laden water, hydraulic fracturing fluids and other substances, according to a study published yesterday in Environmental Science & Technology. The analysis, which appeared February 21 in Environmental Science & Technology, identified 6 648 spills reported across […]

Climate Change

Red state rural America is acting on climate change – without calling it climate change

Juan Cole

By Rebecca J. Romsdahl | (The Conversation) | – – President Donald Trump has the environmental community understandably concerned. He and members of his Cabinet have questioned the established science of climate change, and his choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, has sued the EPA many times and […]

Climate Change

Antarctica: Iceberg Size of Delaware Poised to Break Away

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Mark Phillips | “CLimate Diaries” | CBS this Morning Video Report | – – “A massive iceberg in Antarctica is poised to break away at a time of uncertainty over the U.S. government’s policy toward climate change. Mark Phillips is aboard the Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic Explorer with scientists who are using thousands of photographs to […]

Acidification of Oceans

As Antarctica Ice Cover Shrinks, Trump Picks ‘Most Dangerous’ EPA Leader

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TeleSur | – – Pruitt, a suspected climate change denier, has expressed plans to roll back climate policies that regulate the fossil fuel industry. The U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, with support from 50 Republicans and two Democrats. Pruitt, a suspected climate change […]

Climate Change

Give us your Huddled Scientists: France woos US Climate Researchers, Inventors in age of Trump

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By Frédéric Simon | EurActiv.com | – – The United States of America. Home of the free. Land of the brave. And, until Donald Trump became president, a beacon of science, research and technology. And Emanuel Macron wants a piece of it. Emmanuel Macron, who emerged this week as the favourite in the French presidential […]

Climate Change

Cooking the Planet: GOP Congress quietly allows Methane Emissions on Public Land

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By Andrea Germanos, staff writer | Commondreams.org | – – Fossil fuel industry hits paydirt as congress approves measure that gives “away a taxpayer-owned resource for free” The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted to repeal a rule curbing methane emissions on public lands, delivering a win, say environmental groups, to big oil and […]

astronomy and outer space

US Government Scientists Go ‘Rogue’ in Defiance of Trump

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TeleSur | – – Twitter accounts are being used as a tool of resistance to fight censorship and bring reliable scientific information to the public. Employees from more than a dozen U.S. government agencies have established a network of unofficial “rogue” Twitter feeds in defiance of what they see as attempts by President Donald Trump […]

Climate Change

Trump Signs Executive Orders Pushing Dakota, Keystone Pipelines

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TeleSur | – – The decision comes as a blow to environmentalists and Indigenous groups opposing the controversial projects. U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive orders Tuesday to revive the controversial Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines. Trump’s signature has left Indigenous groups and environmentalists fuming but determined to carry on their struggle against the […]