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Climate Activists Pledge Huge Response To Trump’s Executive Orders

April 4, 2017 Dani Heffernan, www.350.org , ,
By Dani Heffernan for 350.org - “The best way to fight against these executive orders is to take to the streets. Even as Trump dismantles environmental protections to shore up the fossil fuel industry, support for action to stop global warming is at an all-time high. Now it’s up to communities to bring our vision of a healthy climate and a just transition to renewable energy to life. From the upcoming congressional recess through the Peoples Climate March and beyond, we’ll be putting pressure on lawmakers to defend the climate and building power to stop the fossil fuel industry for good.” The wide-ranging coalition behind the Peoples Climate March includes major labor unions and environmental, climate justice, faith, youth, social justice, peace groups, and more (the “Peoples” in the title is a direct reference to the role of Indigenous peoples in helping lead the effort). In 2014, the same coalition brought over 400,000 people to the streets of New York City to call for climate action ahead of the Paris Climate Summit.

Nearly 400 ‘March For Science’ Protests Against Trump’s Climate Policies

April 3, 2017 Staff, www.telesurtv.net , ,
By Staff of Tele Sur - Nearly 400 marches in 37 countries will protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s environmental policies on April 22, Earth Day. On April 22, nearly 400 marches in 37 countries will protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s environmental policies, which deny the existence of climate change. Organizers of the global march, who include scientists and environmental activists from around the world, plan to hold the largest action in Washington, D.C. The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, is slated to be a major target. Bill Nye “The Science Guy” and notable environmental experts Mona Hanna-Attisha and Lydia Villa-Komaroff will headline the march.

Lawsuit Filed Against Trump’s Anti-Climate Executive Order

March 30, 2017 Staff, www.earthjustice.org , ,
By Staff of Earth Justice - ON MARCH 28, PRESIDENT TRUMP ISSUED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER directing the Department of Interior to resume giving away tens of thousands of acres of public lands to the coal industry, overturning a coal-leasing moratorium put in place by the Obama administration. A day later, that’s exactly what the Department of Interior did. The pause in leasing was ordered last year by former Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to allow time to review and reform the federal program to ensure protection of the climate. The coal leasing program determines how 570 million publicly-owned acres are leased to coal companies for exploration and mining. It has not been significantly updated since 1979.

Global Anger And Dismay After Trump Slams Brakes On U.S. Climate Action

March 30, 2017 Nika Knight, www.commondreams.org ,
By Nika Knight for Common Dreams - "If 'America First' means you want to lead, then you can't turn the clock back and rely on a century-old technology. You're missing the train," Thomas Stocker, a climate scientist at the University of Bern, Switzerland, told the New York Times about Trump's push to reinvigorate the coal industry. "Whoever tries to change into reverse gear is only going to harm themselves when it comes to international competitiveness," German environment minister Barbara Hendricks told the Times. "No matter how other countries' policies on climate change change, as a responsible large developing country, China's resolve, aims and policy moves in dealing with climate change will not change,"...

Lorne Stockman: FERC Alternative Climate Facts Exposed

March 28, 2017 Staff, www.yubanet.com ,
By Staff of Oil Change International - Feb. 20, 2017 – Long before Trump spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway took the phrase ‘alternative facts’ mainstream, a rogue federal agency with authority to ram giant gas pipelines through people’s property against their will has for years pioneered the Trumpian version of reality when assessing the climate impact of natural gas infrastructure. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), an “independent” agency that regulates the interstate transmission of gas and electricity, has permitted nearly 200 interstate gas pipeline projects stretching over 6,000 miles since 2009, and rejected only a single application. For each of these permitted projects an environmental impact statement was conducted.

Keystone XL Pipeline Foes Rev Up Fight Again After Trump’s Rubber Stamp

March 25, 2017 Marianne Lavelle, www.insideclimatenews.org , ,
By Marianne Lavelle for Inside Climate News - This story was updated at 10:45 am ET on March 24 to include comments from President Donald Trump, TransCanada. The White House's approval of the Keystone XL pipeline Friday opens a fierce, new battle over a project that has become a front in the fight against climate change. President Donald Trump made reviving the 1,200-mile pipeline, which will transport heavy crude oil from tar sands mines in Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast, a key plank of his fossil fuel-focused energy plan. He promised in January to reverse President Barack Obama's rejection of the TransCanada project, one of Obama's signature environmental decisions, within 60 days.

Judge Orders Exxon To Turn Over Tillerson’s ‘Wayne Tracker’ Climate Emails

March 24, 2017 David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org , , , ,
By David Hasemyer for Inside Climate News - Exxon officials have been ordered by a New York judge to explain how the company overlooked a shadow email account used by its former chief executive Rex Tillerson while the company was under subpoena by the New York attorney general's office. Judge Barry Ostrager ordered Exxon to provide sworn affidavits describing the company's process for identifying and turning over documents. He also demanded an explanation of what documents may have been lost and how that happened. Ostrager also gave the company until March 31 to surrender documents associated with Tillerson, now serving as secretary of state, and five other members of Exxon's management committee.

Is US Farm Policy Creating Another Dust Bowl In Age Of Climate Change?

March 23, 2017 Staff, www.insideclimatenews.org , ,
By Staff for Inside Climate News - Over the past decade, farmers in the Great Southern Plains have suffered the worst drought conditions since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. They've battled heat, dust storms and in recent weeks, fires that devoured more than 900,000 acres and killed thousands of cattle. These extreme conditions are being fueled by climate change. But a new report from an environmental advocacy group says they're also being driven by federal crop insurance policy that encourages farmers to continue planting crops on compromised land, year after year. "Dust bowl conditions are coming back. Drought is back. Dust storms are back. All the climate models show the weather getting worse," said Craig Cox of the Environmental Working Group (EWG), which released the report Wednesday.

Trump Repeal Of Climate Rules Means U.S. Paris Target Now Out Of Reach

March 23, 2017 Marianne Lavelle, www.insideclimatenews.org ,
By Marianne Lavelle for Inside Climate News - Whether the U.S. meets its emissions-reduction commitments under the Paris climate accord is pivotal to the success of the global agreement, but the Trump administration's policies have all but ensured the U.S. will fall far short. One recent analysis says the country will miss its target by more than 1 billion metric tons. Under President Barack Obama, the United States pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 26-28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025. That means emissions must be cut about 1.7 billion metric tons, according to figures from the Environmental Protection Agency's latest greenhouse gas inventory.

Mass. Adds To Call For ‘Wayne Tracker’ Emails In Exxon Climate Probe

March 22, 2017 David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org , ,
By David Hasemyer for Inside Climate News - While Exxon called the New York attorney general's claim that Rex Tillerson used an alias email to hide crucial climate discussions "preposterous," the Massachusetts attorney general's office wants to make sure those emails are preserved so investigators can determine whether they contain evidence that Exxon's leadership misled the public and investors. Maura Healey's office sent Exxon a letter directing the company to save the emails, which it says would fall under its civil investigative demand—similar to a subpoena—it issued last year seeking Exxon records. "Exxon's reported failure to identify the aliases in the New York case raises serious concerns...

Youth In Climate Lawsuit Seek Rex Tillerson Pseudonym Emails

March 21, 2017 Julia Olson and Phillip Gregory, wwwo.urchildrenstrust.org , , ,
By Julia Olson and Phillip Gregory for Our Children's Trust - While risk-management issues related to climate change are important to the New York Attorney General’s investigation, attorneys representing youth plaintiffs suspect the emails will also reveal the deep influence of the fossil fuel defendants over U.S. energy and climate policies, and the defendants’ private acknowledgement that climate change was caused by their product, both of which are important to the youth’s case. To the latter point, the fossil fuel defendants have refused to take a position on whether climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels, even when pressed by federal judges to answer that question.

Exxon Says Some Emails From ‘Wayne Tracker’ Alias May Be Lost

March 21, 2017 Erik Larson, www.bloomberg.com , ,
By Erik Larson for Bloomberg - Exxon Mobil Corp. says a technical glitch may have prevented it from automatically preserving emails in a secondary account used by former Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson to discuss climate change risks and other issues under the alias Wayne Tracker. Tillerson, now U.S. Secretary of State, used the pseudonym account for sending the most sensitive messages to company board members, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who is investigating whether the company misled investors for years about the possible impact of climate change on its business. Schneiderman this week accused Exxon of failing to alert his office to the existence of the Wayne Tracker email account

How We Can Turn Railroads Into A Climate Solution

March 20, 2017 Patrick Mazza, www.grist.org ,
By Patrick Mazza for Grist - Railroads have become a nexus of controversy in recent years due to their role in transporting climate-twisting fossil fuels. But they could become a locomotive driving the growth of clean energy. That is the aim of a new proposal to electrify railroads, run them on renewable energy, and use rail corridors as electricity superhighways to carry power from remote solar and wind installations to population centers. The proposal, called Solutionary Rail, has been developed by a team of rail experts, economists, and public interest advocates assembled by the Washington state–based Backbone Campaign.

Climate Change Financing Dropped From G20 Draft Statement

March 20, 2017 Jan Strupczewski and Michael Nienaber, www.reuters.com ,
By Jan Strupczewski and Michael Nienaber for Reuters - Opposition from the United States, Saudi Arabia and others has forced Germany to drop a reference to financing programs to combat climate change from the draft communique at a G20 finance and central bankers meeting. A G20 official taking part in the meeting said on Friday that efforts by the German G20 presidency to keep the wording on climate change financing had run into resistance. "Climate change is out for the time being," said the official, who asked not to be named. At their last meeting in July 2016 in the Chinese city of Chengdu, the G20 financial leaders said they encouraged all signatories of the Paris Agreement on climate change to bring the deal into force as soon as possible.

Doctors Highlight Climate Change’s Threat To Health Nationwide

March 16, 2017 Sabrina Shankman, www.insideclimatenews.org ,
By Sabrina Shankman for Inside Climate News - Pediatrician Samantha Ahdoot may not use the words "climate change" when she's talking to her patients and their parents in Alexandria, Va., but she's talking about its impacts all the time. Whether it's a 6-year-old boy who contracted Lyme disease in November—long after ticks should be gone for the year—or having to start kids on spring allergy medication in February instead of March, climate change is making its way into Ahdoot's exam room. And she's not alone. As a physician, Ahdoot practices at the intersection where public health and climate change meet. She is part of a group of physicians who announced on Wednesday the formation of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health...
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