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The ElephantThe climate change and environmental emergency: a comprehensive resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens
Opinion | If Trump or Harris wins election, the climate fight faces headwinds - The Washington Post
2024-08-17 in The Washington PostA second Trump administration would cut climate policy. But decarbonization will also face obstacles if Harris wins the presidency.
Tagged under: US Politics | Donald Trump
Project 2025: The right-wing conspiracy to torpedo global climate action
2024-08-16 by in Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsThe GOP threatens to weaponize a potential second Trump term against any and all domestic climate action. But what happens in the United States doesn’t stay in the United States.
Tagged under: Project 2025 | US Politics | Donald Trump
‘The dumbest climate conversation of all time’: experts on the Musk-Trump interview
2024-08-13 in The GuardianTrump talked about ‘nuclear warming’ while Musk said the only reason to quit fossil fuels is that their supply is finite
Tagged under: Global Warming | Fossil Fuels | US Politics | Donald Trump | Nuclear Power
9 Things Musk and Trump Said About Climate Change, Annotated
2024-08-13 in The New York TimesIn a conversation on X, Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk spoke for a bit about climate change. Heres what they got wrong and what they got right.
Tagged under: US Politics | Donald Trump | Climate Change
Trump VP Pick JD Vances Scorn for Clean Energy Grew as Ohio Embraced It - Bloomberg
2024-07-15 in BloombergDonald Trump’s newly picked running mate, Senator JD Vance, has grown more critical of renewable electricity and climate change even as his home state of Ohio embraced solar power and clean-tech manufacturing.
Tagged under: Solar Energy | Renewable Energy | Electricity | Energy | Donald Trump | Climate Change
What is Project 2025? Wish list for a Trump presidency, explained
2024-06-12 in The BBCA think-tank with ties to Trump has set out a vision for another term in office. The former president denies any links.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Project 2025
‘It would be devastating’: inside Trump’s plan to destroy the EPA
2024-02-09 in The GuardianTrump has made campaign promises to toss crucial environmental regulations – including dismantling the federal body with the most power to tackle the climate crisis
Tagged under: Fossil Fuels | Donald Trump
‘In a word, horrific’: Trump’s extreme anti-environment blueprint
2024-02-06 in The GuardianAllies and advisers have hinted at a more methodical second term: driving forward fossil fuel production, sidelining scientists and overturning rules
Tagged under: Fossil Fuels | US Politics | Donald Trump
Climate Change and "The Chosen One" - Legal Planet
2024-02-05 by Dan Farber in Legal Planet - Environmental Law and PolicyA leading presidential candidate recently reposted a video that called him the “Chosen One,” echoing the view of many of his followers that God has chosen him to lead the country. “And on June 14, 1946,” the video tells us, “God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker.’ So God … Continue reading "Climate Change and “The Chosen One”"
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Fossil Fuels
Windmills are Killing Our Donuts! And It’s All Biden’s Fault! - Legal Planet
2024-01-22 by Dan Farber in Legal Planet - Environmental Law and PolicyDonald Trump has been talking a lot about donuts lately. Donuts, it seems, are threatened by renewable energy and depend on fossil fuels. Maybe because he’s heard that they’re cooked in oil? Trump’s knowledge of cooking is likely pretty minimal, given that it’s unlikely he’s ever been inside a kitchen. And windmills are terrible, just … Continue reading "Windmills are Killing Our Donuts! And It’s All Biden’s Fault!"
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Donald Trump | Fossil Fuels | Wind Power
Article 3 – Thank You Trump leans into climate denialism
2024-01-08 in E&E News | Essential Energy and Environment NewsCLIMATEWIRE | Former President Donald Trump isn’t known for his subtlety, especially when it comes to climate change — which […]
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation
What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies | George Monbiot
2024-01-06 in The GuardianThe Atlas Network’s dark-money junktanks are behind neoliberal policies around the world, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Tagged under: Argentina | Rishi Sunak | Donald Trump
‘Watershed moment’: activists speak out about ‘Cop City’ conspiracy charges
2023-09-25 in The GuardianThe same law used to charge Donald Trump is being wielded against protesters in a historic prosecution of 61 defendants
Tagged under: Activism | Donald Trump
POLITICO Pro
2023-07-28 (or before) in Politico PROHundreds of conservative operatives outlined a plan that Donald Trump, or any Republican, could use to purge climate action from the federal government.
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Schwarzenegger to Sue Big Oil for ‘First Degree Murder’
2023-07-09 (or before) in PoliticoAt SXSW, the former California governor lets loose on climate change, Donald Trump and gives his first in-depth remarks on #MeToo.
Tagged under: Climate Change | California | Donald Trump
Alarm after lawyer who aided Trump’s 2020 election lie attacks campus voting
2023-05-08 in The GuardianRightwing lawyer Cleta Mitchell faces criticism after comments to GOP donors urging new rules to make voting harder for students
Tagged under: US Politics | Donald Trump
The (First) Indictment of Donald Trump Is a Milestone for American Democracy | by umair haque | Eudaimonia and Co
2023-04-03 (or before) in Eudaimonia and CoDemagogues Like Trump Know How to Overwhelm Democracies — And Not Every Democracy Knows How to Fight Back
Tagged under: Donald Trump
The Battle for American Democracy and the Indictment of Donald Trump | by umair haque | Eudaimonia and Co
2023-04-03 (or before) in Eudaimonia and CoHow Do You Defend a Democracy in as Much Peril as America’s?
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Policy | Project 2025
2023-02-02 in project2025.orgThis book is the product of more than 400 scholars and policy experts from across the conservative movement and around the country. Contributors include former elected officials, world-renowned economists, and veterans from four presidential Administrations. This is an agenda prepared by and for conservatives who will be ready on Day One of the next Administration to save our country.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Project 2025
Bannon is not finished: his ‘precinct strategy’ could alter US elections for years
2022-09-10 in The GuardianOne longtime Bannon watcher says it’s too early to count him out – even a prison term could enhance his status among the Maga crowd
Tagged under: Donald Trump | US Politics
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: The animals at risk from Alaska oil drilling - BBC News
2022-04-29 (or before) in The BBCAs Donald Trump pushes forward with plans for drilling in the Alaskan wilderness, what is at stake?
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Arctic | Wildlife | Alaska
Toxic Nostalgia, From Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys
2022-03-03 (or before) in The InterceptWar is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Vladimir Putin
Biden administration moves to restore mercury rules for power plants weakened under Trump
2022-02-01 in Grist.org: Climate. Justice. Solutions.EPA reaffirmed its authority to regulate mercury and other hazardous air pollutants.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Donald Trump
Tracking Biden’s environmental actions
2021-10-13 (or before) in The Washington PostPresident Biden is unwinding Donald Trump’s environmental legacy while forging his own. The Washington Post is chronicling every step.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Donald Trump
US environmental agency releases climate report delayed by Trump - BBC News
2021-06-04 (or before) in BBCClimate change-related environmental disasters have grown more common, according to the EPA.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
Long Term Matters: BlackRock – time to pull your finger out!
2021-03-05 (or before) in Investment & Pensions EuropeDonald Trump is not the only US leader to ignore the climate emergency. BlackRock's 2019 letter to companies, timed to coincide with Davos, it was equally silent on the crisis
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Trump Led An "All-Out Assault" On The EPA. Now Biden Has To Rebuild It.
2021-02-12 (or before) in BuzzFeed NewsUnder Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency knelt to the country’s biggest polluters and lost more than 800 employees. Staffers say they want accountability.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Donald Trump
Pipeline CEOs, facing environmental activism, vow to fight back
2021-02-07 (or before) in CNBCExecutives from some of the largest North American pipeline firms acknowledged they were too slow too respond to a surge in environmental activism.
Tagged under: Activism | Donald Trump
How Biden is reversing Trump's assault on the environment
2021-02-02 in The GuardianThe new president is focusing on seven key areas to reverse a legacy of environmental destruction and climate denialism
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Donald Trump | Fossil Fuels
White House OSTP Releases Climate Denial Flyers on Private Site
2021-01-12 (or before) in Earther | GizmodoThe 10 flyers are akin to the greatest hits of climate denial.
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Federal appeals court rejects Trump administration permit for offshore oil project in Arctic Alaska
2021-01-06 (or before) in Anchorage Daily News: Alaska News, Politics, Outdoors, Science and EventsAgencies did not follow environmental requirements in reviews that led to the permit, the court said.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Arctic | Alaska
Trump loyalists aim to block Biden's goal to rejoin Iran and Paris agreements
2020-12-22 in The GuardianTed Cruz and Lindsey Graham urge Trump to submit Iran nuclear deal and Paris climate agreement to Senate to undercut future attempts to revive them
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Joe Biden | Donald Trump | US Politics | Iran | The Paris Agreement
Trump kick-starts oil drilling licence sales in Arctic refuge
2020-12-03 in The GuardianFossil fuel extraction sell-off in pristine Alaskan wilderness set for 6 January, predating Biden inauguration by days
Tagged under: Oceans | Joe Biden | Donald Trump | Arctic | Wildlife | Alaska
Revealed: Trump officials rush to mine desert haven native tribes consider holy
2020-11-24 in The GuardianAdministration seeks to transfer ownership of Arizona area to mining company with ties to the destruction of an Aboriginal site
Tagged under: Donald Trump | US Politics
A destructive legacy: Trump bids for final hack at environmental protections
2020-11-21 in The GuardianAdministration finishing off regulatory moves to lock in drilling, loosen wildlife protections and roll back pollution standards
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Arctic | Wildlife
White House removes climate scientist Michael Kuperberg heading USGRP - The Washington Post
2020-11-09 in The Washington PostChange at Global Change Research Program may allow climate contrarian David Legates to take over.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
US formally exits Paris climate agreement as election hangs in balance - Net Zero Watch
2020-11-04 (or before) in Net Zero Watch - News on net zeroBut the outcome of the tight U.S. election contest will determine for how long. Trump’s Democratic rival, Joe Biden, has promised to rejoin the agreement if e
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Donald Trump | Net Zero
Billionaire casino boss Sheldon Adelson splashes the cash in bid to help Trump
2020-10-31 in The GuardianThe magnate, 87, is expected to have spent $250m this election cycle to support conservative causes, fundraisers say
Tagged under: Donald Trump | US Politics
'Just like propaganda': the three men enabling Trump's voter fraud lies
2020-10-26 in The GuardianThe hysteria over voter fraud has reached an alarming pitch – and this dangerous moment in US democracy wouldn’t be possible without the work of these men
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Donald Trump | US Politics
Revealed: the full extent of Trump’s ‘meat cleaver’ assault on US wilderness
2020-10-26 (or before) in The GuardianAfter four years of Trump, protected places such as national monuments and wildlife refuges have opened to oil drilling, new maps show – with more on the way
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Wildlife
Climate news Trump can use - by Emily Atkin - HEATED
2020-10-26 (or before) by in HEATED | Emily Atkin | SubstackHEATED analyzed 30 news articles about Biden's climate policy, and found that 25 adopted Trump's preferred framing.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Donald Trump
War on NOAA? A Climate Denier’s Arrival Raises Fears the Agency's Climate Mission Is Under Attack - Inside Climate News
2020-10-25 in Inside Climate NewsIn the shadow of the Trump administration’s dismissal of climate change, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has continued to press on with its work measuring the breadth and pace of the climate crisis. So far in 2020, NOAA recorded the nation’s hottest summer on record, the second-lowest Arctic sea ice minimum and the greatest […]
Tagged under: Oceans | Donald Trump | Arctic | Climate Change
Retirement Plans Push Back on Trump Rule Limiting Fossil Fuel Divestments
2020-10-11 (or before) in Cheddar NewsThe new rule would tweak the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), which regulates the fiduciary duties of private plan managers.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Trump's public lands chief refuses to leave his post despite judge's order
2020-10-10 in The GuardianWilliam Perry Pendley says ‘I have the support of the president’ despite court ruling he is serving illegally as head of the Bureau of Land Management
Tagged under: Donald Trump | US Politics
Proud Boys and petro-masculinity - by Emily Atkin - HEATED
2020-10-02 (or before) by in HEATED | Emily Atkin | SubstackThe hate group Trump called out at Tuesday's debate subscribes to a version of masculinity that researchers say is a driving force behind climate denial.
Tagged under: Donald Trump
An analysis of the Trump Administration’s economic and policy arguments for withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2020-09-28 (or before) in London School of EconomicsThis report investigates whether the evidence supports the reasons given by the Trump Administration to justify its decision to withdraw the US from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, and concludes that the decision is irrational and does not promote the best interests of the American people.
Tagged under: Economics | Donald Trump | Climate Change
Trump's final phone call to Woodward: 'Nothing more could have been done' - CNNPolitics
2020-09-15 (or before) by in CNN InternationalOn August 14, the coronavirus pandemic was on fire in the US. More than 168,000 Americans had died, with more than 1,300 deaths that day alone. But when President Donald Trump called legendary journalist Bob Woodward, it was to find out one thing: He had recently learned that Woodward's new book "Rage" was done and would be coming out in September, and Trump wanted to find out how he'd be portrayed.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | US Politics
A Climate Change Skeptic, Mike Pence Brought to the Vice Presidency Deep Ties to the Koch Brothers - Inside Climate News
2020-08-31 in Inside Climate NewsFind profiles of all the presidential election candidates here. Vice President Mike Pence’s fight to block climate action began long before he became President Donald Trump’s stalwart second-in-command. The former Indiana governor came into Trump’s orbit with a reputation as a culture warrior who sought to restrict gay marriage and reproductive rights, and he has described […]
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change | India
E.P.A. Relaxes Rules Limiting Toxic Waste From Coal Plants (Published 2020)
2020-08-31 in The New York TimesTagged under: Donald Trump | Coal
Trump in final push to open up Alaska's Arctic refuge to oil and gas drilling
2020-08-17 in The GuardianInterior department to reportedly auction leases before year’s end as critics condemn plan to drill in America’s ‘last great wilderness’
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Arctic | Wildlife | Fossil Fuels | Alaska
In a Move That Could be Catastrophic for the Climate, Trump’s EPA Rolls Back Methane Regulations - Inside Climate News
2020-08-13 in Inside Climate NewsThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a long-anticipated rollback of methane emission regulations for the oil and gas industry on Thursday, marking the latest in a long series of attacks on federal climate policy by the Trump administration. The move, which was opposed by several leading oil and gas companies, could result in a catastrophic […]
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Methane
Big oil remembers 'friend' Trump with millions in campaign funds
2020-08-09 in The GuardianDonations to support the president’s re-election have flooded in from a fossil fuel industry that has enjoyed three years of energy deregulation and tax cuts
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Fossil Fuels | US Politics
Trump Administration Moves Forward With Plan To End Wild Bird Protections
2020-08-07 (or before) by in mavenroundtable.ioTagged under: Donald Trump
Why Trump abandoning the climate fight puts the planet in even more danger – video explainer
2020-07-27 by in The GuardianThe Guardian's enviroment reporters Emily Holden and Oliver Milman look at why Donald Trump wants to leave the agreement and whether the world can make a success of the deal without America's cooperation
Tagged under: Donald Trump | The Paris Agreement
How the global climate fight could be lost if Trump is re-elected
2020-07-27 in The GuardianThe US will officially exit the Paris accord one day after the 2020 US election and architects of that deal say the stakes could not be higher
Tagged under: Donald Trump | US Politics
Power Up: Trump says he has the best environmental record. That's not true. - The Washington Post
2020-07-17 in The Washington PostThe president will today speak on his 'environmental leadership.'
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Trump administration moves forward with plan to end wild bird protections
2020-06-05 in PBS - Public Broadcasting ServiceThe Trump administration is moving forward with plans to scale back a century-old law protecting most American wild birds despite warnings that billions of birds could die.
Tagged under: Birds | Donald Trump
Trump signs order removing environmental review of major projects
2020-06-04 by in The HillPresident Trump signed an executive order Thursday evening that would waive requirements under a suite of environmental laws, a move the administration says will boost the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Trump, Citing Pandemic, Moves to Weaken Two Key Environmental Protections (Published 2020)
2020-06-04 in The New York TimesTagged under: Donald Trump
'Disastrous at a time like this': the US Postal Service is on the brink of crisis
2020-06-03 in The GuardianThe post office could be key to people voting during the pandemic but perverse financial rules and Trump’s hostility put that at risk
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Four More Years of Donald Trump Could Delay Global Emissions Cuts by 10 Years
2020-06-02 (or before) by Josh Gabbatiss in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismTrump’s call to step back from international climate action endangers any prospect of hitting global emissions targets.
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Canadian Court Slams Trump Climate Advisor in Successful Libel Case
2020-05-27 by in DeSmogClimate science denier and Trump transition team advisor Dr. Tim Ball, who a Canadian court earlier derided as incompetent, ill-intended, and apparently indifferent to the truth, has been further rebuffed in the British Columbia Court of Appeal and must now stand libel for a 9-year-old attack against prominent Canadian climate scientist (and outgoing BC Green Party leader) Dr. […]
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Trump Adviser Calls Workers “Human Capital Stock,” Says We Should Get Back to Work
2020-05-26 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismTo them, we are only meat for the machine, nothing more than an entirely expendable commodity.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Rivers | Capitalism
Trump admin slaps solar, wind operators with retroactive rent bills | Reuters
2020-05-19 (or before) in ReutersThe Trump administration has ended a two-year rent holiday for solar and wind projects operating on federal lands, handing them whopping retroactive bills at a time the industry is struggling with the fallout of the coronavirus outbreak, according to company officials.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | USA | Donald Trump | Solar Energy | Climate Change | Wind Power | US Politics | California | Alaska
Republicans devote $20m and 50,000 people to efforts to restrict voting
2020-05-18 in The GuardianThe RNC is seeking people in 15 key states to serve as poll watchers and challenge the registration of voters they believe ineligible
Tagged under: Donald Trump | US Politics
Steve Linick: State Department official investigating Pompeo is fired
2020-05-16 in The GuardianLatest move against independent executive branch watchdogs who have found fault with Trump administration
Tagged under: Donald Trump | US Politics
'It's all rigged': Trump foreshadows how he could undermine presidential election
2020-05-12 in The GuardianTrump accusations shed light on how he could use the Covid-19 pandemic to undermine the results of the November election
Tagged under: Donald Trump | US Politics | California
Trump dismantles environmental protections under cover of coronavirus
2020-05-11 in The GuardianAdministration is weakening protections ahead of the election, making changes that could take years for a Democratic president to undo
Tagged under: Donald Trump | US Politics
Trump's 'juggernaut' re-election bid like the Death Star, campaign boss boasts
2020-05-07 in The GuardianBrad Parscale raises eyebrows with Star Wars comparison: ‘In a few days we start pressing FIRE for the first time’
Tagged under: Donald Trump | US Politics
McConnell’s Pandemic Priority Is Appointing Conservative Judges
2020-05-06 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismMcConnell and Trump’s appointees threaten not only the COVID-19 recovery, but also federal programs for decades to come.
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Fossil fuel firms linked to Trump get millions in coronavirus small business aid
2020-05-01 in The GuardianRevealed: Oil and mining firms – some with ties to Trump officials – taking advantage of funding, review shows
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Fossil Fuels
Despite COVID-19, Trump Keeps on Gutting Protections for Workers
2020-04-26 (or before) by Mike Ludwig in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismPlummeting labor standards and enforcement under Trump has made workplaces even more dangerous during the pandemic.
Tagged under: Donald Trump
There is no point talking to Trump. We need to talk past him | Jan Werner-Muller
2020-04-25 in The GuardianGovernors, officials and Democrats should start proposing concrete plans to deal with the crisis. It’s time to build a ‘parallel polis’
Tagged under: Donald Trump | US Politics
We can't let Trump roll back 50 years of environmental progress | Elizabeth Southerland
2020-04-22 in The GuardianI worked for the EPA for 33 years. We can’t let this administration obliterate half a century of environmental progress
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Why Is Trump’s Inspector General Purge Not a National Scandal?
2020-04-08 in lawfareblog.comThe removal of a couple of inspectors general for transparently—and in one case, admittedly—self-interested reasons no longer generates outrage.
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Trump Administration Finalizes Rationalization of Fuel Economy Mandates
2020-03-31 in American Energy Alliance - Legislative and public policy advocacy concerning energy and environmental issues.Today the Trump administration finalized the second half of its proposed rule to correct the overreach of the Obama administration’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulations. The first half came last fall when the administration halted California’s ability to force fuel economy standards on the other 49 states. Today’s second half brings fuel economy mandates […]
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Barack Obama | California
Coronavirus Doesn’t Slow Trump’s Regulatory Rollbacks (Published 2020)
2020-03-25 in The New York TimesTagged under: Donald Trump
'Individual actions do add up': Christiana Figueres on the climate crisis
2020-03-05 in The GuardianTrump’s words made the architect of the Paris accord livid – but she’s become an advocate for positivity about climate action
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Donald Trump’s Climate Preparedness Policy: “Get Your Mops And Buckets Ready” — Covering Climate Now
2020-02-29 (or before) in Covering Climate NowThe Climate Beat On October 30, 1975, the New York Daily News published one of the great headlines of all time: “Ford To City: Drop Dead.” US president Gerald Ford had just announced that the federal government would refuse to bail out New York if the city government went bankrupt. Ford later said that the headline and [...]Read More...
Tagged under: Flooding | Donald Trump
Trump, Putin and the Pipelines to Nowhere | by Alex Steffen | The Nearly Now
2020-02-22 (or before) by Alex Steffen in The Nearly NowAmerican journalists, pundits and media executives have largely convinced themselves that climate change is not a serious political issue, because they think the polls tell them that. A majority of…
Tagged under: Vladimir Putin | Carbon Bubble | Global Warming | Donald Trump | Climate Change
Trump's magical mystery climate solutions - by Emily Atkin
2020-01-27 (or before) by in HEATED | Emily Atkin | SubstackIn Davos, the president promised secret "scientific breakthroughs" to fight climate change. Here's why, and what they might be.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change | Innovation
House Republicans caught between Trump and young voters on climate change
2020-01-27 (or before) in PoliticoGOP leaders are putting together their own more modest set of climate policies that their party can rally behind.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
‘Blatant manipulation’: Trump administration exploited wildfire science to promote logging
2020-01-24 in The GuardianRevealed: emails show Trump and appointees tried to craft a narrative that forest protection efforts are responsible for wildfires
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Extreme Weather | Wildfires | US Politics | California | Trees
BP lobbied Trump to weaken climate safeguards on oil and gas projects
2020-01-23 in Greenpeace UK - UnearthedTogether with the American Petroleum Institute, BP asked Trump to largely exclude the climate impacts of oil projects from environmental assessments
Tagged under: BP | Donald Trump | Climate Change | Greenpeace | Climate Change Impacts
Trump weakened environmental laws after BP lobbying
2020-01-23 in The GuardianLetter suggests oil firm pushed for changes whereby fewer projects would need impact assessments
Tagged under: BP | Donald Trump | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | US Politics
"Flood the zone with shit": How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy
2020-01-16 by Sean Illing in VoxThe impeachment trial didn’t change any minds. Here’s why.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Disinformation and Misinformation
Police contradict claims spread online exaggerating arson's role in Australian bushfires
2020-01-08 in The GuardianDonald Trump Jr was among those who retweeted misleading figures published by News Corp
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Bushfires | Extreme Weather
Trump Rule Would Exclude Climate Change in Infrastructure Planning (Published 2020)
2020-01-03 in The New York TimesTagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
Voter purges: are Republicans trying to rig the 2020 election?
2019-12-31 in The GuardianControversies in Wisconsin and Georgia show how the mass removal of voters from the rolls has become a key part of the fight to win
Tagged under: Donald Trump | US Politics
Trump's dark legacy: a US judiciary remade in his own image
2019-12-25 in The GuardianNo president has secured so many important judgeships so quickly – and progressives say the damage will be lasting
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Judiciary
US Congress commits to act on climate crisis, despite Donald Trump
2019-12-02 in The GuardianNancy Pelosi tells UN conference in Madrid that commitment is ‘iron-clad’
Tagged under: US Politics | Donald Trump | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Former Trump official says climate change is ‘imaginary threat’ invented by ‘insular and paranoid' scientists
2019-11-05 in washingtonexaminer.comWilliam Happer failed at the chance of his lifetime.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
Naomi Oreskes: ‘Discrediting science is a political strategy’
2019-11-03 in The GuardianThe Harvard professor on science and scepticism – and why climate deniers have run out of excuses
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Paris Agreement: Trump confirms US will leave climate accord - BBC News
2019-10-24 (or before) in The BBCDonald Trump says Paris deal would "punish the American people" as he hails US fossil fuel boom.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | The Paris Agreement
Climate change: 'Trump effect' threatens Paris pact - BBC News
2019-10-24 (or before) in The BBCPresident Trump's actions are restricting global efforts to cut carbon, a study suggests.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
Buried, altered, silenced: 4 ways government climate information has changed since Trump took office
2019-10-21 (or before) by in The ConversationDespite scientists’ initial concerns, federal climate change data sets are still available. But other documents and web pages have changed over the last year.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
Climate change: Trump's rollback of climate change regulations will be felt far beyond his presidency - CNNPolitics
2019-10-19 (or before) by in CNNIn his time in office, President Trump has rolled back dozens of environmental regulations, and critics say the impacts of his policies will be felt for generations to come.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
Climate change could be the spark that sets global productivity on fire
2019-10-16 (or before) in The TelegraphDonald Trump has said many silly things in his time, but among the silliest was his insistence that “trade wars are good and easy to win”.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
Greta Thunberg in exclusive interview: ”The election of Trump was a turning point for the climate movement”
2019-10-13 in Nyheter - DN.seWhat is it like to talk about science in a country where the president denies it?DN’s Alexandra Urisman Otto and Roger Turesson have travelled with
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Donald Trump
Political polarisation over climate crisis has surged under Trump
2019-10-11 in The GuardianRevealed: divide exacerbated by fossil fuel industry’s record contribution to Republicans
Tagged under: US Politics | Donald Trump | Greenhouse Gases | Fossil Fuels
Greta, not Trump, is the true leader of the free world | Opinion
2019-09-24 in NewsweekTagged under: Greta Thunberg | Donald Trump | Climate Change
Trump Moves to Open 16.7 Million Acre Alaskan Rainforest to Corporate Exploitation - EcoWatch
2019-08-28 in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and LifeTrump has reportedly ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to open Alaska's 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest — the planet's largest intact temperate rainforest — to logging and other corporate development projects, a move that comes as thousands of fires are ripping through the Amazon rainforest and putting the "lungs of the world"
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Wildfires | Rainforests | Forest Fires | Alaska | Trees
Trump officials weaken protections for animals near extinction
2019-08-12 in The GuardianChanges to how Endangered Species Act is implemented come as world scientists warn biodiversity crisis will put humanity at risk
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Wildlife | Extinction
War on science: Trump administration muzzles climate experts, critics say
2019-07-26 in The GuardianWhistleblowers and groups tracking agency decisions say administration is ignoring science and censoring expertise
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Trump to claim US is environmental leader in spite of ripping up protections
2019-07-03 in The GuardianExclusive: On Monday president will likely tout America’s clean air and water, even though he’s rescinded rules to cut pollution
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Fossil Fuels | US Politics
Trump dismisses need for climate change action: ‘We have the cleanest water we’ve ever had, we have the cleanest air’ | The Independent | The Independent
2019-07-01 (or before) in The Independent‘It doesn’t always work with a windmill,’ says US president as he rejects green energy
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
Trump ditches sole climate rule that aimed to reduce coal plant pollution
2019-06-19 in The GuardianAdministration to roll back Obama-era Clean Power Plan as experts say move shows Trump’s ‘determination to avoid action to address climate change’
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Coal | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Barack Obama
White House physicist sought aid of rightwing thinktank to challenge climate science
2019-06-14 in The GuardianWilliam Happer contacted Heartland Institute, one of the most prominent groups to dispute that fossil fuels cause global heating
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Fossil Fuels | US Politics
Not Even Automakers Can Support Trump's Love Affair With Pollution
2019-06-07 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News CoverageThe industry got more than it bargained for when it asked the president to relax regulations
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Trump lied to Prince Charles's face - and to the world | Opinion
2019-06-06 (or before) in NewsweekTagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
Donald Trump tells Prince Charles US has 'clean climate'
2019-06-05 in The GuardianPresident blames other countries for environmental crisis, in long talk with prince
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change | US Politics | Health
There's a climate crisis – but Trump's cabinet continues to backtrack on science | Kate Aronoff
2019-05-29 in The GuardianConservative donors and fossil fuel companies have the most to lose from large-scale decarbonization – and they know it
Tagged under: Donald Trump | US Politics
Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science (Published 2019)
2019-05-27 in The New York TimesTagged under: Donald Trump | Greenhouse Gases | US Politics
BP pushed for Arctic drilling rights after Trump's election
2019-05-19 in The GuardianDespite PR damage over earlier spills, documents show oil firm pressed for reduced regulation
Tagged under: BP | Donald Trump | Arctic
Trump Will Meet With Top Advisers To Discuss Plans To Challenge Climate Change Reports, Source Says
2019-05-02 (or before) in dailycaller.comPresident Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with officials to discuss creating a commission to scrutinize climate change reports, according to a source.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
Trump administration sabotages major conservation effort, defying Congress
2019-04-08 in The GuardianRevealed: federal support to research centers cut off as scientists fear years of successful work will go ‘down the drain’
Tagged under: US Politics | Donald Trump
Climate change group scrapped by Trump reassembles to issue warning
2019-04-04 in The GuardianPanel was disbanded after a Trump official voiced concerns that it did not have enough members ‘from industry’
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
Trump ditches coal when hyping 'revolution in American energy' in SOTU speech
2019-02-05 by in The HillPresident Trump did not mention coal when he declared Tuesday night that his administration has “unleashed a revolution in American energy” that has lead to historic energy export highs and economic grow
Tagged under: Economic Growth | Donald Trump | Coal | Economics
Trump replacement for Obama climate plan worse than doing nothing – study
2019-01-16 in The GuardianAdministration’s alternative to clean power plan would let emissions ‘rebound’ via coal-fired power plants, researchers find
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Coal | Barack Obama | US Politics
Why water will be the next battleground in the fight against climate change
2018-11-28 in The GuardianIn the third part of our series looking at the climate report Trump tried to bury over Thanksgiving, we look at its alarming projections for our water supplies
Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change | US Politics | California | Donald Trump
She trolled Trump, but can she lead a green wave across Europe?
2018-11-24 in The GuardianSwedish minister Isabella Lövin found fame in a jibe aimed at the White House. Now she aims for change beyond Twitter
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change | Fish
Top White House aide 'fired' after Melania Trump intervention, report says – as it happened
2018-11-13 by Lauren Gambino in The GuardianFirst lady called for Mira Ricardel, top aide to John Bolton, to go after the two had a dispute over plane seating during Africa trip
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Africa | US Politics
Neil Young criticises Trump after losing his home in California fires
2018-11-12 in The GuardianSongwriter says state is vulnerable because of climate change and accuses US president of defying science
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Wildfires | Climate Change | California
'It'll change back': Trump says climate change not a hoax, but denies lasting impact
2018-10-15 in The GuardianClimate scientists have political agendas, US president says in interview with 60 Minutes
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
Climate change: local efforts won't be enough to undo Trump's inaction, study says
2018-08-30 in The GuardianOnus still falls on national governments to cut emissions to stave off worst impacts of climate change, Yale researchers say
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
Conserving oil no longer necessary for US, says Trump administration
2018-08-19 in The GuardianNew policy threatens to undermine decades of campaigns for efficient cars and other conservation programs
Tagged under: Donald Trump | US Politics | Cars
'Truth isn't truth': Giuliani trumps 'alternative facts' with new Orwellian outburst
2018-08-19 in The GuardianPresident’s lawyer keeps up attack on Mueller investigation, leading NBC host Chuck Todd to say: ‘This is going to become a bad meme’
Tagged under: Donald Trump | US Politics | Russia
Have American newspapers given Donald Trump a gift? - BBC News
2018-08-18 (or before) in BBCThe joint effort by US newspapers against Donald Trump is likely to prove counter-productive.
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Paul Manafort trial: judge won't release jurors' names over safety concerns
2018-08-17 in The GuardianJudge TS Ellis says he won’t make names public: ‘I’ve received criticism and threats … I imagine they would, too’
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Russia
US interior secretary's school friend blocking climate research, scientists say
2018-08-17 in The GuardianTrump administration forces some scientific funding to be reviewed by adviser who was high-school football teammate of Ryan Zinke
Tagged under: Donald Trump | US Politics
A Climate-Friendly Response to Trump’s Protectionism | by Barbara Unmüßig & Michael Kellner - Project Syndicate
2018-06-04 by Barbara Unmüßig & Michael Kellner in Project SyndicateBarbara Unmüßig & Michael Kellner call on the EU to implement a levy on greenhouse-gas emissions, including climate border adjustment.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Greenhouse Gases
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