‘Historic’ weather: why a cocktail of natural disasters is battering the US
Summer in the American west is off to an explosive start, with extreme weather events ravaging multiple states in recent weeks. In Montana, historic flooding devastated communities and infrastructure in and around Yellowstone national park and forced a rare closure.
Extremwetter USABiden distanced himself from Saudi Arabia — until gas prices got bad
Biden distanced himself from Saudi Arabia — until gas prices got bad A “foreign policy for the middle class” and centering human rights collide in the Middle East. There seems to be conflicted goals among Biden’s slogans and his top hires, and perhaps for Biden himself.
foss. Energie Geopolitik USARepublican Drive to Tilt Courts Against Climate Action Reaches a Crucial Moment
A Supreme Court environmental case being decided this month is the product of a coordinated, multiyear strategy by Republican attorneys general and conservative allies.Republican attorneys want to hem in what they call the administrative state, the E.P.A.
USA** RECOMMENDED READING ** The 1977 White House climate memo that should have changed the world
In 1977 Star Wars hit movie theaters, New York City had a blackout that lasted 25 hours, and the Apple II personal computer went up for sale. It was also the year that a remarkable one-page memo was circulated at the very highest levels of US government.
Geschichte USAGreenhouse gases must be legally phased out, US scientists argue
Greenhouse gas emissions should be subject to legal controls in the US and phased out under the Toxic Substances Control Act, according to a group of scientists and former public officials, in a novel approach to the climate crisis.
USAOver 100m Americans urged to stay indoors over extreme heat and humidity
More than 100 million Americans are being warned to stay indoors if possible as high temperatures and humidity settle in over states stretching through parts of the Gulf coast to the Great Lakes and east to the Carolinas.
Hitze USARecord flooding and mudslides force closure of Yellowstone national park
Record flooding and rockslides following a burst of heavy rains prompted the rare closure on Monday of all five entrances to Yellowstone national park at the start of the summer tourist season, the park superintendent said.
Erdrutsche USAThe federal government started New Mexico’s largest wildfire. It had good intentions.
Controlled burns are more dangerous but more necessary than ever. In the past, summer has marked the beginning of wildfire season. Colorado would see four months of fires; California’s fires usually burned between July and October. But that was the past.
USA WaldbrändeA ‘Perfect Recipe for Extreme Wildfire’: New Mexico’s Record-Breaking, Early Fire Season
Fueled by abnormally dry, warm conditions and spread by strong winds, wildfires have burned more than 600,000 acres across New Mexico this spring — making it one of the worst fire years in the state’s recorded history. And there’s at least another month of peak fire risk ahead.
Trockenheit USA WaldbrändePowering Electric Cars: the Race to Mine Lithium in America’s Backyard
At his small red brick farmhouse home near the Catawba river in the rural Piedmont region of North Carolina, Brian Harper is caught up in the dilemma facing America’s big push towards a future powered by green energy.
Energiespeich. Rohstoffe USAUs older people must fight for a better America, and world, for younger generations
Ihad the chance this month to spend a couple of weeks on an utterly wild and remote Alaskan shore – there was plenty of company, but all of it had fur, feathers or fins. And there was no way to hear from the outside world, which now may be the true mark of wilderness. So, bliss.
USABiden Is Preparing To Crush A Historic Climate Change Lawsuit
Any day now, a federal circuit court is expected to deliver a ruling that would allow a historic climate change lawsuit to proceed to trial. If and when the case moves forward, however, it faces a major obstacle: President Joe Biden’s Justice Department.
USAJustice Dept. Tries to Shift Environmental Justice Efforts From Symbolic to Substantive
The agency has announced a series of policies intended to elevate those efforts, including the creation of an office meant to address the “harm caused by environmental crime, pollution and climate change.”A vacant home in Lowndes County, Ala., which lacked wastewater treatment in 2020.Credit...
USATime is running out for Biden’s EPA to act on climate
The Biden EPA could decide America’s climate future only if it finishes work in the coming months. So far, President Biden’s legacy on climate change is pretty insubstantial. There’s time to change that if he can quickly make much better use of his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
USAState accuses Exxon Mobil of deceiving public, perpetuating ‘myth’ of plastics recycling
California’s attorney general has announced a first-of-its kind investigation into the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries for their alleged role in causing and exacerbating a global crisis in plastic waste pollution. Atty. Gen.
Kunststoffe USAThe Decline of Kentucky’s Coal Industry Has Produced Hundreds of Safety and Environmental Violations at Strip Mines
The company that blasted the sides of this Floyd County, Kentucky, mountain went bankrupt and left behind mining violations including steep cliffs. The property’s owner, Tracy Neece, is waiting on state regulators to find a way to get it reclaimed.
Kohle USAFloride : pour fuir les ouragans, les riches délogent les pauvres
À Miami Beach, les villas luxueuses en bord de mer n’ont plus la cote. Face à la montée des eaux, les quartiers en hauteur deviennent attirants pour les promoteurs. Au détriment des plus pauvres qui en sont peu à peu chassés. Cyclones, tempêtes, inondations...
soz. Gerechtigk. USAIs the world’s most important climate legislation about to die in US Congress?
Tucked beneath the headlines on Covid and Ukraine, the most important climate legislation in US history – and thus, arguably, in world history – is still stuck in congressional purgatory. You’d be forgiven if you weren’t fully aware. It is not trending on Twitter.
USA* UKRAINE WAR * Why is Biden boasting about drilling for oil? Our planet demands we stop now
We are spiraling further into climate and ecological breakdown. Now is the perfect moment to build out renewables and end the fossil fuel industry as if the future of humanity depends on it. Putin’s unprovoked and atrocious invasion of Ukraine has laid bare many things.
Konflikte foss. Energie USA* GUERRE EN UKRAINE * Le gaz de schiste liquéfié au Texas suffira-t-il pour l’Europe?
Le président américain Joe Biden et la présidente de la Commission européenne Ursula von der Leyen ont annoncé vendredi 18 mars la création d'un groupe de travail pour réduire la dépendance de l'Europe à l'égard du gaz russe, en particulier en important davantage de gaz naturel liquéfié
foss. Energie USAThree months after a wildfire swept through, displaced Colorado residents struggle to rebuild
Susan Nedell was watching black smoke billowing in the distance from the kitchen window when her cellphone buzzed with an order to evacuate. It was 30 December around 1.30pm, and the Marshall fire had by then been razing neighborhoods for a couple of hours.
USA WaldbrändeAfter US fails to pay its debt, UN’s flagship climate fund warns of austerity
Joe Biden speaks to DRC president Felix Tshisekedi and Gabon's president Ali Bongo Ondimba at Cop26. (Photo: The White House/Flickr) The head of the UN’s flagship climate fund has warned that it will have to reject emissions-cutting projects if its donors do not provide more resources.
Klimafinanzierung USA* UKRAINE WAR * What Does the Russian Oil Ban Mean for the Clean Energy Transition?
President Biden announced today that the United States was banning all imports of Russian oil, gas and coal, the latest in a series of severe economic sanctions being waged against President Vladimir Putin for his unprovoked war in Ukraine.
Konflikte Energiepolitik Energiewende foss. Energie USA* UKRAINE WAR * America can’t solve its gas price problem (or its Russia problem) with drilling
The four myths Republicans have been spreading about oil and gas prices, explained. Republicans and conservative commentators in the last week have had a field day using Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as an opportunity to bemoan US energy policy and champion fossil fuel reserves.
Konflikte foss. Energie Russland USASupreme Court Climate Skeptics Will Help Decide the Fate of the Planet
Last fall, on the same day that the parties to the Paris Agreement gathered in Glasgow for their first day of their annual international climate meeting, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would review an appellate court decision about the U.S.
USAThe Biden Administration Rethinks its Approach to Drilling on Public Lands in Alaska, Soliciting Further Review
Pipelines extend across the landscape outside Nuiqsut, Alaska, 36 miles from the Willow Master Development Plan located in the National Petroleum Reserve on Alaska's North Slope. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images.
Ende der Fossilen. foss. Energie USAA Fight Over Rooftop Solar Threatens California’s Climate Goals
Utility regulators have proposed slashing the incentives homeowners receive to install solar panels, a long-sought goal of utilities and labor unions. California has led the nation in setting ambitious climate change goals and policies.
Energiepolitik Solarenergie USAColorado’s Suburban Firestorm Shows the Threat of Climate-Driven Wildfires is Moving Into Unusual Seasons and Landscapes
The Marshall Fire continues to burn out of control on Dec. 30, 2021 in Broomfield, Colorado. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images When he saw smoke in the air around Boulder, Colorado on Dec. 30, Tom Veblen walked up a trail near his home to check it out.
Trockenheit Hitze USA WaldbrändeConocoPhillips’ Plan for Extracting Half-a-Billion Barrels of Crude in Alaska’s Fragile Arctic Presents a Defining Moment for Joe Biden
The shadow of a bush plane falls on the landscape of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The reserve includes the proposed Willow project. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images
Arktis & Antarktis foss. Energie USAA for targets, D for action: Joe Biden’s first year on climate, graded
On 20 January 2021, Joe Biden took to a stage that had only recently been vacated by rioters, declared that the world faces “a climate in crisis” and asked: “Are we going to step up?” So has he? We asked Climate Home News readers and politicians from around the world how they rated the US pr
USAThe U.S. Military Emits More Carbon Dioxide Into the Atmosphere Than Entire Countries Like Denmark or Portugal
U.S. servicemen stand on humvees as they take part in a military drill in western Ukraine on July 22, 2015. Credit: Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP via Getty Images This story originally appeared on the War Horse.
Konflikte THG-Emiss. USASale of North Dakota’s Largest Coal Plant Is Almost Complete. Then Will Come the Hard Part
Water vapor streams away from the Coal Creek electric power plant at the Falkirk Mining Company in North Dakota on Jan. 9, 2010. Credit: Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images A plan to sell, rather than close, the largest coal-fired power plant in North Dakota is nearly final.
Kohle USAAmid Delayed Action and White House Staff Resignations, Activists Wonder What’s Next for Biden’s Environmental Agenda
President Joe Biden speaks to the press after attending a meeting with the Senate Democratic Caucus on Capitol Hill, on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
USAHow Exxon is leveraging Texas courts to silence its climate critics
ExxonMobil is attempting to use an unusual Texas law to target and intimidate its critics, claiming that lawsuits against the company over its long history of downplaying and denying the climate crisis violate the US constitution’s guarantees of free speech.
Big Oil & Gas USAA Vivid View of Extreme Weather: Temperature Records in the U.S. in 2021
Temperatures in the United States last year set more all-time heat and cold records than any other year since 1994, according to a New York Times analysis of Global Historical Climatology Network data. Heat waves made up most of these records. All-time heat records were set last year at 8.
USA ExtremwetterClimate Change an ‘Emerging Threat’ to U.S. Financial Stability, Regulators Say
The Financial Stability Oversight Council issued a formal warning on the economic damage that global warming could inflict. WASHINGTON — Federal regulators warned for the first time in an annual report to Congress on Friday that climate change was an “emerging threat” to the U.S.
Kosten der Klimaerw. USAThe father of environmental justice, on whether we’re all doomed
Robert Bullard joined Vox Conversations to discuss the global struggle to keep this world safe to live in, and how racism gets in the way. Robert Bullard has been trying to explain to us for more than 40 years that the word “racism” isn’t so easily defined.
USAJohn Kerry: US supports a coal phaseout but cannot commit
John Kerry is the first United States special presidential envoy for climate, appointed under the Biden administration in January 2021. He spoke to Euractiv’s energy and environment editor, Frédéric Simon.
Kohle foss. Energie USA Ende der Fossilen.Biden Promised to Stop Oil Drilling on Public Lands. Is His Failure to Do So a Betrayal or a Smart Political Move?
A large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background on December 28, 2017 in Loveland, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images
USAHouse Narrowly Passes Biden’s Social Safety Net and Climate Bill
The vote was months in the making for the roughly $2 trillion measure, one of the most consequential bills in decades. Now it faces a difficult path in the Senate. WASHINGTON — The House narrowly passed the centerpiece of President Biden’s domestic agenda on Friday, approving $2.
USAAfrican nations settled for ‘moral pact’ with US on adaptation finance at Cop26
African nations accepted a “moral commitment” that the US will deliver increased finance for developing countries to cope with intensifying climate impacts in exchange for backing the Cop26 deal in Glasgow.
Afrika Klimafinanzierung COP26 USAHow bad is the Pacific north-west flooding and what caused it?
What is happening?A huge storm has dumped record rainfall across swathes of British Columbia in Canada and Washington State in the US.Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes, others have been trapped on cut-off roads, and several towns have been completely cut off.
Amerikas Extremwetter USAFormer President of the United States Barack Obama at #COP26 (Full Speech)
Remarks by Former President of the United States Barack Obama at COP26. This UN High-Level Climate Champions Event 'Destination 2030', convened in partnership with the COP26 Presidency, will take a stocktake of what has been achieved at COP26 to date and explore what’s necessary, what’s possibl
COP26 USAPlans To Dig the Biggest Lithium Mine in the US Face Mounting Opposition
People dance together at the protest camp at Thacker Pass, Nevada on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. Earlier in the day People of Red Mountain organized a remembrance of a massacre of Indigenous people nearby on the same date in 1865. Credit: Spenser Heaps
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