Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin has privately pushed the White House for a rewrite of the agency’s finding that planet-warming greenhouse gases imperil the public.
Millions of dollars in grant money from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is being directed to six projects in the Pacific Northwest – including multiple projects in Washington state. Projects will target climate change initiatives that rely on nature-based solutions.
When the Biden administration designed the country’s latest targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it fully expected a rollback of federal action on climate change under the incoming president, Donald Trump.
A new poll finds that most U.S. adults who say severe cold was among the types of extreme weather they experienced in recent years cite climate change as a cause.
Trump left little mystery about his intentions during the presidential campaign, railing against electric vehicles, wind turbines and what he called Biden’s “Green New Scam” at rally after rally. He has long ridiculed climate science, joking last year that rising temperatures would lead to more oceanfront property.
New research and ever more frequent extreme weather further prove the harm climate change is doing to people and the planet, said 11 different scientists who are experts in health and climate.