The former Federal Emergency Management Agency chief, Craig Fugate, has told the Trump Administration “You have to look at climate change science if you want smarter disaster relief.”
Later today the Trump Administration will propose ripping up climate legislation to save dirty coal jobs at the same time as California burns out of control from wildfires, made worse by climate change.
Later today, three scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency were due to speak at a conference on climate change in Rhode Island. They have been banned by their boss, the leading climate denier, Scott Pruitt, from speaking.
The UK has followed France in banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2040, as part of its plan to tackle chronic air pollution in cities.
These are dangerous days for the climate. Not only do we have a climate denier in the White House, we have one in the Kremlin too.
How can it be that as the evidence about climate change gets stronger, politicians like Trump seem to get more ignorant?
First the good news. After decades of denial, delay and obfuscation by the fossil fuel industry, an historic agreement on climate change, which was first signed in Paris last year, enters into force today.
As the UN COP22 climate talks enter the second week in Marrakesh, 400 civil society organisations, from over 60 countries, are calling on world leaders to put an immediate halt to new fossil fuel development and pursue a rapid transition...
There was growing outrage last night at the appointment of Steve Bannon as Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff.
Outgoing US Secretary of State John Kerry used his speech at the UN COP climate talks in Marrakesh to lay down the gauntlet to incoming President Donald Trump on climate change.
